JERUSALEM: Israel accused Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of trivialising the Holocaust and inflicting offence to the Jewish individuals on Sunday after he likened the Israeli battle towards Hamas militants in Gaza to the Nazi genocide throughout World Struggle Two.
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other historical moments. In fact, it did exist when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” Lula informed reporters in the course of the thirty seventh African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.
The Overseas Ministry in Jerusalem mentioned it might summon the Brazilian ambassador for a reprimand over the remarks, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “disgraceful and grave”.
“This is a trivialisation of the Holocaust and an attempt to attack the Jewish people and the right of Israel to self-defence. Drawing comparisons between Israel and the Nazis and Hitler is to cross a red line,” Netanyahu mentioned in a press release.
Brazil‘s presidential palace and the overseas ministry didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In a press release, the Brazilian Israelite Confederation mentioned Lula’s remarks had been a “perverse distortion of reality” and “offend the memory of Holocaust victims and their descendants” and accused his authorities of an “extreme and unbalanced” stance on the battle.
Earlier on Sunday, Lula additionally condemned the suspension of humanitarian support to the UN Palestinian refugee company (UNRWA), urging an investigation into errors with out reducing off funding to assist these affected by what he known as a “genocide.”
“It’s not a war between soldiers and soldiers, it’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children,” he mentioned.
UNRWA is going through a monetary pressure following Israel’s assertion that 12 out of its 13,000 workers members in Gaza had been implicated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other historical moments. In fact, it did exist when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” Lula informed reporters in the course of the thirty seventh African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.
The Overseas Ministry in Jerusalem mentioned it might summon the Brazilian ambassador for a reprimand over the remarks, which Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described as “disgraceful and grave”.
“This is a trivialisation of the Holocaust and an attempt to attack the Jewish people and the right of Israel to self-defence. Drawing comparisons between Israel and the Nazis and Hitler is to cross a red line,” Netanyahu mentioned in a press release.
Brazil‘s presidential palace and the overseas ministry didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
In a press release, the Brazilian Israelite Confederation mentioned Lula’s remarks had been a “perverse distortion of reality” and “offend the memory of Holocaust victims and their descendants” and accused his authorities of an “extreme and unbalanced” stance on the battle.
Earlier on Sunday, Lula additionally condemned the suspension of humanitarian support to the UN Palestinian refugee company (UNRWA), urging an investigation into errors with out reducing off funding to assist these affected by what he known as a “genocide.”
“It’s not a war between soldiers and soldiers, it’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children,” he mentioned.
UNRWA is going through a monetary pressure following Israel’s assertion that 12 out of its 13,000 workers members in Gaza had been implicated in Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
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