The Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs, Israel Katz, announced this Sunday that he ordered the Brazilian ambassador to the Hebrew country, Frederico Meyer, to be summoned due to the statements of the Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who had described the actions of Tel Aviv in the Gaza Strip as a “genocide.”
In a press conference held at the 37th African Union Summit, taking place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Lula said that the conflict “is not a war between soldiers and soldiers,” but “a war between a Army [israelí] highly trained and women and children. The president compared the events in the Palestinian enclave with the moment “when [Adolf] “Hitler decided to kill the Jews.”
Furthermore, during a speech at the summit, the Brazilian president defended a lasting solution to the conflict between Israel and Palestine, with progress towards the creation of a Palestinian State recognized by the United Nations.
«The statements of the Brazilian president are shameful and serious. “No one will harm Israel’s right to defend itself,” Katz criticized in his X account.
Meanwhile, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced that “comparing Israel with the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler is crossing a red line,” local media reported. “This is about trivializing the Holocaust and trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself,” he said.
Likewise, Netanyahu noted that his country “fights for its defense and to ensure its future until complete victory, and it does so respecting international law.”
Meanwhile, from the Palestinian movement Hamas indicated that Lula’s words are “an accurate description” of what the people of Gaza “are suffering”, in addition to revealing “the enormity of the Zionist crime” committed with the “open support” of the US. Hamas also urged the International Court of Justice to “take into consideration” the Brazilian president’s statements.
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