Israel is committing the “equivalent of terrorism” in Gaza by killing harmless civilians, together with ladies and youngsters, Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated Tuesday.
The veteran leftist had beforehand condemned Hamas’s Oct. 7 assault on Israel.
But the chief of Latin America’s greatest nation stated the Palestinian resistance group’s actions don’t justify Israel’s army response in Gaza, the place greater than 11,200 folks, additionally principally civilians, have been killed.
“Israel’s attitude toward children, toward women, is the equivalent of terrorism. There’s no other way to put it,” Lula stated in his weekly social media tackle.
“If I know a place is full of children, even if there’s a monster inside, I can’t kill the children just because I want to kill the monster.”
The feedback got here because the Israeli army encircled Gaza’s greatest hospital, which has been pressured to bury scores of lifeless sufferers in a mass grave.
Lula, 78, had already are available for criticism from Zionist teams in Brazil for his remarks on the battle.
On Monday, he stated that “even if Hamas committed a terrorist act, Israel is also committing various acts of terrorism, by failing to take into account that children and women are not involved in the war.”
Those statements got here as he welcomed a flight carrying 32 Brazilians and members of the family evacuated from Gaza by way of its land border with Egypt.
The evacuation took weeks of diplomatic wrangling and had stoked pressure between Brazil and Israel.
Israel has been criticized for committing acts of terrorism, genocide and warfare crimes in opposition to harmless civilians in Gaza.
Source: www.dailysabah.com