In a very strong official statement released this Friday, the Brazilian government accused the Israeli government of lacking ethical and legal restraints and of committing atrocities in the Gaza Strip that the international community must confront and try to stop.
The brutal attack came a day after the world watched in shock as Israeli tanks fired on hungry, defenseless and unarmed people who had surrounded food trucks in Gaza, leaving more than 100 people killed and injured either by bullets or from collision with heavy vehicles. war, another 750.
“The Netanyahu government, through its actions and statements, once again shows that military action in the Gaza Strip has no ethical or legal restrictions. The task of the international community is to put an end to this and only in this way to avoid new atrocities. with every day of hesitation, more innocent people will die,” said a statement issued this Friday by Brazil, which will certainly further intensify the already serious diplomatic crisis between Brazil and Israel.
On February 18, speaking to reporters in Addis Adeb, the capital of Ethiopia, after attending as a guest at an African Union summit, Lula da Silva compared the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Palestinians, most of them women and children, caused by Israel in the Gaza Strip to Hitler’s extermination of Jews , opening a heated exchange of statements between the rulers of the two countries.
Benjamin Netanyahu, an ally of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, said only ignorance could explain the statement by Lula, who was immediately declared “persona non grata” by the Israeli government and was subjected to almost daily insults and ridicule on social media. Foreign Minister Israel Katz.
Israel summoned Brazilian Ambassador Frederico Meier to explain what would be normal in such a situation, but in a clear gesture of insult, he arranged a meeting not at the headquarters of Israeli diplomacy, but at the Holocaust Museum. and called on the press to record the diplomat’s confusion, made in Hebrew rather than English.
Brazil, in turn, after this undiplomatic gesture from Israel, ordered the ambassador to return to Brasilia, where he is still located, to explain himself to the Israeli ambassador Daniel Zonschein. There is increasing pressure on him to expel him from the country.
In its statement on Friday, Lula da Silva’s government also criticized inappropriate and offensive statements made about the victims by senior Israeli officials in the wake of the tragedy. And he concluded by saying that these statements, which he called “cynical and offensive,” should be “the last straw for anyone who truly believes in the value of human life.”
Author: Domingos Grilo Serrinha This correspondent in Brazil
Source: CM Jornal
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