Former Israeli attorney general Michael Ben-Yair said that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
"Jews, who went through a genocide 80 years ago, are committing genocide in Gaza," Ben-Yair, writing on X on Tuesday, said.
"Shame, rage and sorrow," he added.
His comment was a caption to a news report by Haaretz on two leading Israeli human rights organisations, B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI), calling Israel's actions in Gaza a genocide on Monday.
While global human rights bodies like Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International have been using genocide to describe Israel's actions in Gaza for several months now, the report marks the first time an Israeli organisation has formally used the word.
