PM Benjamin Netanyahu called out France's FM Jean-Yves Le Drian statement, in which he said that Israel could turn into an apartheid state. Netanyahu said that asks the French government to strongly condemn his statement, which he called "rude, wrong with no real evidence." Netanyahu added "Israel is the lighthouse of democracy in the region, in which all of its citizens are equal under the law. It has always been and will continue to be so. We will not tolerate faulty hypocritical preachings in this matter," Netanyahu concluded. These remarks by Netanyahu were said during a ceremony for the memory of the refugee ship Altalana.