The president’s statements were made during the summit of the African Union (EU).
The Brazilian president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silvatoday accused Israel of committing a “genocide” of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and compared their actions to the campaign Adolf Hitlerr to exterminate the Jews.
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a war, it’s a genocide“Lula declared to the press in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, where he is attending a summit of the African Union (EU).
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has not happened at any other time in history. In reality, it has happened: when hitler decided to kill the jews“he added, reported the AFP news agency.
Nearly 29,000 Palestinians have been killed and more than 68,000 injured in Israeli bombings and fighting in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of an Israeli offensive on October 7, according to Hamas.
The operation began shortly after militants from the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas They infiltrated Israel from Gaza and murdered around 1,200 people, mostly civilians.
Hamas fighters took with them to Gaza, as they fled, some 240 hostages, including twenty Argentines.
Lula has been one of the Latin American leaders most critical of the Israeli offensive.
The president arrived in Ethiopia after visiting Egypt last week, where he accused Israel of indiscriminately killing women and children and disobeying UN mandates.
Source: Ambito
