Defence Minister Guido Crosetto on Thursday criticised the new wave of protests that has broken out in Italy after Israeli forces started to intercept boats taking part in the Global Sumud Flotilla.
"Does anyone really believe that the blockade of a station, an airport, a highway, or the destruction of a store in Italy will bring relief to the Palestinian people?", he said.
"Or that will it change the choices of another nation's government? It won't.
"Burning everything down, stopping everything, scaring everyone, serves no one and will only hurt all the Italian people.
"Solidarity is given to the Palestinian people by working to put out the fire in Gaza and certainly not by lighting one in Italian cities".
