Brazil’s Lula: ‘Absolutely nothing justifies the ongoing genocide in Gaza’

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.

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