The Brazilian president’s extremely harsh accusation against Israel: the murder of “innocent civilians without any criteria” in the Gaza Strip is “as serious” as the Hamas attack on October 7, denounced Luís Inácio Lula da Silva. «After Hamas’ terrorist act, the consequences, the State of Israel’s solution, are as serious as those of Hamas. They are killing innocent civilians without any criteria”, highlighted Brazil’s number one. According to Lula’s accusations, Israel “is dropping bombs where there are children and hospitals, under the pretext that there are terrorists there. This is unjustifiable, first we need to save women and children, then fight whoever we want.”
Representatives of the Brazilian Jewish community denounced these remarks as “erroneous”, “unfair” and “dangerous”, adding that they “put Israel and Hamas on the same level”. They defended Israeli authorities’ “visible and proven” efforts “to save Palestinian civilians.” “Our community expects balance from our authorities,” added in a statement the Israeli Confederation of Brazil, which claims to represent around 120,000 Brazilian Jews, the second largest community in the region. Israel denies deliberately targeting the hospitals and accuses Hamas of using these facilities, or the tunnels beneath them, as hideouts, which the Islamic militant group denies. Lula’s comments were made as he received in Brasília 22 Brazilians and 10 members of their families who were evacuated from Gaza on Sunday, across the land border with Egypt, after more than a month of waiting in the conflict zone.
Source: IL Tempo
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