Brazil’s president said on Tuesday that Israel’s military response to the attack by the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, which has already caused thousands of deaths among women and children in Gaza, amounts to acts of terrorism.
“Israel’s attitude towards children and women is tantamount to terrorism, there is no other way to say it,” said Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in a live broadcast, which he conducts weekly, on social media, stating that knowing that there is a place “full of children”, even if there is “a monster inside”, you cannot “kill the children”, you must “kill the monster without killing the children”.
How much money is thrown away in a war? How many lives? How much impact does a bomb have on the climate issue? We must guarantee peace and end world hunger, yes. I don’t think Israel’s response to Hamas’s terrorist attack is correct. The attack on children and women…
– Lula (@LulaOficial) November 14, 2023
The Brazilian president recalled that he condemned the Hamas terrorist attacks on Israeli territory, but also criticized the more than 10,000 deaths resulting from Israel’s bombings in Gaza.
“This war, as it is going on now, has no end (…) We must guarantee the establishment of a Palestinian state so that they can live in peace with the Jewish people,” the head of state stated to reinforce the position. of Brazilian diplomacy, which supports the creation of two states to resolve conflicts in that region.
Lula da Silva also recalled the United States’ recent veto of a resolution submitted by Brazil to the United Nations (UN) Security Council to create humanitarian corridors, which he deemed “incomprehensible and unacceptable”, and called for the elimination of the veto power of permanent members.
The war in Gaza began after the Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack on southern Israel on October 7 with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militants, taking more than 200 hostages. The attack also killed more than 1,400 people in Israel, including women and children.
Israel has declared war on Hamas, a movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and has been classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States. water supply, fuel and electricity, worsening the humanitarian situation in that region.
Source: DN
