Bolsonaro supporters threaten to kill Brazilians rescued from Gaza by Lula’s government

The 32 Brazilians repatriated from the Gaza Strip a few days ago after persistent negotiations between the government of Lula da Silva and the governments of Israel, Egypt and the United States found the atmosphere in Brazil very different from the peace and joy they had expected. They are receiving death threats from far-right radicals linked to former President Jair Bolsonaro.

On social media, Brazilians repatriated after countless obstacles created by Benjamin Netanyahu’s government are being called “terrorists” for criticizing the violence used against civilians in the Gaza Strip by the Israeli military, and “communists” for finally arriving in Brazil , they took pictures. with President Lula da Silva, who was waiting for them at Brasilia airport. Internet users who claim to be followers of Jair Bolsonaro are threatening in their posts that they will find out where the repatriated Brazilians are going to settle and that they will go there to attack them and, as some of the threats say, kill them because they are not they want terrorists in Brazil.

In most of the messages against the Brazilians who found themselves in Gaza due to the war and at great cost returned to Brazil with the help of the Brazilian Air Force, FAB, the authors also classify the repatriates as “traitors” and “ungrateful”, because one cannot be grateful to Jair Bolsonaro for repatriation and, yes, his bitter enemy Lula da Silva. For these right-wing radicals associated with Bolsonaro, it was the former president who achieved the liberation of the Brazilians, not Lula, which is an outright lie, but is being spread as the absolute truth in Bolsonaro’s networks.

This false narrative was cleverly instigated and supported by Jair Bolsonaro himself, who took advantage of the drama of the Brazilians trapped in the Gaza Strip to try to claim responsibility for their repatriation. Bolsonaro made a surprise appearance at a congressional event in Brasilia with Israeli Ambassador Daniel Sonschein, with whom he has an excellent relationship, and later announced on his social media that he had called Israel, whose prime minister is also a Netanyahu radical. , and asked him to allow the Brazilians to leave the Gaza Strip, to which the Israeli friend, according to the former president, immediately agreed.

In fact, on the day that Bolsonaro and the ambassador decided to show themselves side by side to give some credibility to the false narrative, permission for the Brazilians to leave the Gaza Strip had already been agreed upon between Brazil and Egypt, from where they left Gaza. enclave and Israel. But for the radical followers, there is no truth in the world that surpasses what Bolsonaro says, and, outraged by what they call the ingratitude of the returnees, they promise revenge, forcing the federal government to even provide security in the refugee sites. and accompany their staff to the most targeted groups.