Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, the president of Brazil, charged that Israel was committing “genocide” against innocent Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and likened its actions to Adolf Hitler’s attempt to kill the Jewish people.
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,” While in Addis Ababa for an African Union conference, Lula informed reporters.
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“It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children,” the PM added.
“What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.”
These were perhaps of Lula’s most forceful remarks on the war to date. Lula is a well-known representative of the global south, and his nation now holds the G20 rotating chair.
The 78-year-old leader denounced as a “terrorist” conduct on the same day that Hamas launched its offensive on Israel on October 7.
Nevertheless, he has recently intensified his criticism of Israel’s military campaign of retaliation.
An AFP count of Israeli government numbers indicates that 1,160 persons in Israel lost their lives because of Hamas’s strike, the majority of them were civilians.
According to Israeli data, militants also seized roughly 250 individuals captive; 130 of them are still in Gaza, including 30 who are thought to be dead.
The health ministry of the Hamas-run territory reports that at least 28,858 individuals have died as a result of Israel’s retaliatory attack on Gaza, the majority of them being women and children.
Lula attacked Western nations for their recent plans to stop funding UNRWA, the UN organization for Palestinian refugees, following accusations by Israel that some of its staff members were involved in the October 7 attack.
During their recent meeting on the fringes of the summit, Lula, the prime minister of Brazil, said that Brazil will be increasing its contribution to the agency and encouraged other nations to follow suit.
“When I see the rich world announce that it’s halting its contributions to humanitarian aid for the Palestinians, I just imagine how big these people’s political awareness is and how big the spirit of solidarity in their hearts is,” Lula said.
“We need to stop being small when we need to be big.”
He once again called for Palestine and Israel to have two states to resolve the problem, “definitively recognized as a full and sovereign state.”
