NEW YORK: The greatest worldwide example of “disproportionate and illegal use of force” is in Gaza, Brazilian President Lula da Silva told the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, accusing Israel of “genocide.”
Though he condemned the Hamas attack on Israel of Oct. 7, 2023, as “indefensible from any angle,” he added: “Nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies the ongoing genocide in Gaza.”
Beneath the rubble in the besieged enclave, there are “buried tens of thousands of innocent women and children,” Lula said.
“International humanitarian law and the myth of the ethical superiority of the West are also buried there,” he added.
“This massacre wouldn’t have happened without the complicity of those who could’ve prevented it.”
