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Israel's ambassador to UN warns the
organization not to allow new flotilla, planned for May, to launch;
U.S., Germany also call on flotilla organizers to find other ways to
deliver aid to Gaza.

Israel warned the United Nations Security
Council on Thursday not to allow a new flotilla to sail to Gaza, saying
that the flotilla organizers had "ties to Hamas and other terrorist
organizations."

Another flotilla to Gaza is being planned for
May, one year after Israel's deadly raid on the aid flotilla that sailed
from Turkey. The new flotilla being planned is larger than the last
one, with 15 ships that will transport over 1,000 people in an attempt
to break Israel's naval blockade on the Strip.

While speaking to the UN on Thursday,
Israel's UN Ambassador Meron Reuben said, "Numerous participants engaged
in the planning of this flotilla have made very troubling statements
expressing their willingness to become martyrs in this effort," Reuben
said.Flotilla organizers aim at "political provocation and not to advance any humanitarian goal," Reuben said.

He said Israel is determined to enforce the naval blockade of Gaza and "stop additional terrorists from infiltrating the area."

The United States supported Reuben's
statement, with U.S. Am... >>>