2023-10-11 13:52:30
With a brief message, the first lady wanted to show solidarity with the victims of the war that is shaking the Middle East. “Today my prayers are with the people of Israel and Palestine. Regardless of differences and interests of any kind, the lives of human beings must take precedence. The war must stop. I ask God to enlighten you in the search for peace and reconciliation,” she notes.
Alcocer, however, thus joins the narrative of her husband’s government, which has avoided calling the Hamas attack terrorism. The first lady also did not reject the attack that cost more than a thousand Israeli lives and that has caused – in turn – innocent Palestinians to lose their lives in the clashes.
Gustavo Petro’s government has been especially offensive towards the Jewish community. In his barrage of tweets he compared what is happening to the Holocaust and pointed out that Israel is turning the Gaza Strip into a “concentration camp.”
The memories of one of the greatest tragedies that humanity has experienced have been an insult to those who today are descendants of its more than six million victims.
This Wednesday, October 11, marks five days of the war between Israel and Hamas. | Photo: Week
The president of Yad Vashem, Dani Dayan, in an interview with SEMANA put in context the magnitude of Gustavo Petro’s statements. “Saturday is the day in which the most Jews have been murdered since the Holocaust,” he maintained.
For this reason, he argued that what Gustavo Petro expressed in X “is barbaric.”
“In reality, what President Petro said is not an offense to the Jewish people, it is not an offense to Israel; It is an offense to every decent person, to every person who has any morality. Of course, it is an offense to the six million Jews who were murdered in the Holocaust, more than a million of them in Auschwitz, the extermination camp that President Petro explicitly named,” he emphasized.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu described Hamas’ surprise offensive, launched on Saturday, as “a savagery not seen since the Holocaust” perpetrated by Nazism, and promised that his country “will win through force.”
The Hamas attack left more than 1,200 dead on Israeli soil, including 169 soldiers, according to the army, as well as hundreds of civilians massacred by the Islamists in agricultural cooperatives and at a festival held on Saturday. The Strip, where 2.3 million Palestinians live, is under siege by Israel, which has cut off water, electricity and food supplies.
Israel announced on Tuesday that it had regained control of its border with the Gaza Strip, after days of fighting with Islamists. The Hamas offensive sparked multiple international condemnations. Pope Francis called for the “immediate” release of the hostages captured in Israel by Hamas, and said he was “very concerned” about the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip, “where there are also many innocent victims.”
The horror of Hamas still does not stop. The terrorist group threatened to execute the hostages if the Israeli attacks continued. Among them are young people kidnapped while participating in a party on Saturday morning, where some 250 people were massacred, according to an Israeli NGO.
The president of the European Commission, German Ursula von der Leyen, described Hamas’ surprise attack as an “act of war.” Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan considered that Israel does not behave “like a state” in Gaza but rather like “an organization,” with its repeated bombings.
Hamas attacks have been indiscriminate against the civilian population. In the Beeri kibbutz, where the Hamas assault left more than a hundred dead, Islamist militants “shot at everyone,” so that “they murdered children, babies, elderly people in cold blood,” said Moti Bukjin. , spokesperson for Zaka, an NGO that participated in the collection of the bodies.
“I have never seen anything worse. “I broke down when I saw the bodies of two murdered children,” said Omer Barak, a 24-year-old Israeli officer, in the Kfar Aza kibbutz, where another hundred people were massacred by Hamas.
The Islamists’ offensive by land, sea and air surprised Israel in the middle of the Sabbath, the weekly day of rest for Jews, and on the last day of the religious holiday of Sukkot. American President Joe Biden promised on Tuesday that he will help his ally defend herself against what he called “pure evil.” Hamas called these statements “inflammatory,” which in its opinion try to “cover up Israeli crimes.”
The Colombian Government, meanwhile, remains firm with its position of not rejecting the attack.
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