Israel’s Prime Minister Netanyahu has accused Brazilian President Lula of trivialising the Holocaust and causing offence to the Jewish people by likening Israel’s war on Gaza to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
“What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other historical moments. In fact, it did exist when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” Lula told reporters during the 37th African Union Summit in Addis Ababa.
“This is about trivialising the Holocaust and trying to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself. Comparing Israel to the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler is crossing a red line,” Netanyahu said in a statement.
source: AlJazeera
