The ex-president Jose Mujica he claimed to the terrorist group Hamas the release of Latin American hostages captured in Israel and asked “that they be left alive,” referring again to the war being fought in Middle East.
Days after the return of Uruguayans from the war conflict zone on two humanitarian flights, Mujica admitted that Hamas will not solve the problem Palestine sacrificing people”, in reference to the nearly 30 hostages of Latin America captured (of which about 20 would be Argentine), out of a total of at least 203 captives, according to the Israeli government.
The former president opened the video by pointing out that “sometimes, things happen that hurt us and we realize that we would like to do something, but we can’t do much” and added: “To those who believe in some divine form, I ask you please, and in this case to the Palestinians, who have a handful of Latin American hostages in Loop, “Let them be left alive, let them reach their towns.”
Mujica admitted “the just cause that it could have had historically Palestine”, but he warned that the terrorists “are not going to solve the problem by sacrificing people who are actually compatriots of Latin America”.
“And it hurts us, therefore, on behalf of my compatriots, I dare to ask and beg the people who are holding this handful of Latin Americans hostage to let them return to their homes, to do it for the God they believe in and for hope,” he said. Finally, the former president expressed: “We feel pain and a debt of humanity, in the greatest sense of the term. Goodbye and may God, if he exists, help us.”
For Mujica, the war “is a failure of UN policies”
Last week, Mujica had given his impression about the war between Israel and Hamas, stating that it is “an outrage and a failure of the policies of the UN, that in more than 50 years they have not been able to suture a wound of a historic nature.
The reference of Wide Front He clarified that “they are not two countries” and asked “not to confuse Palestinians with Hamas”, by pointing out that “this is a pathology of fanaticism that arose as a result of a very long conflict.”
Along these lines, the former head of state reviewed that “(Yasir) Arafat, who was a guerrilla and a Palestinian leader, said that this cannot be fixed with violence, that is why I said that this is a failure of humanity.”
Source: Ambito
