Miguel Díaz-Canel, President of Cuba, today expressed solidarity with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, his counterpart from Brazil, who was declared persona non grata in Israel the previous day.
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We applaud and admire your courage. You will always be on the right side of history, explained Díaz-Canel on the social network.
“All our solidarity goes to dear brother @LulaOficial, President of Brazil, who was declared persona non grata in Israel for sincerely denouncing the annihilation of the Palestinian population in #Gaza.” We applaud and admire your courage. You will always be on the right side of history.”
“What is happening in Gaza and with the Palestinian people does not exist in any other historical moment. In fact, it existed: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” was the controversial expression that earned Lula da Silva the hostility of Israel, which then accused him of trivializing the Holocaust.
The Brazilian president's comments came in the context of the African Union summit in Ethiopia, when in his speech he questioned the decision of some countries to allocate funds to the UN agency to assist Palestinians, the United Nations Agency for Palestine Refugees nearby, expose East (UNRWA).
It is not a war between soldiers and soldiers. “It is a war between a well-prepared army and women and children,” asked Lula da Silva, who reiterated Brazil's condemnation of Hamas but also assured that he will not stop condemning what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu stated that these statements by the Brazilian president were an attempt to harm the Jewish people and Israel's right to self-defense.
Since October 7 last year, the Israeli army has carried out a military offensive against the Gaza Strip, which has already caused the deaths of more than 29,000 people, most of them Palestinian women and children, and displaced more than 80 percent of Gaza's population 2.3 Millions of residents forced from their homes.