Brazil’s President Accuses Israel of Committing Genocide in Gaza, Doubling Down After Earlier Uproar

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BY WAFAA SHURAFA AND SAMY MAGDY  Updated 3:52 AM MST, February 24, 2024

The Health Ministry in Hamas-ruled Gaza said Saturday that the bodies of 92 Palestinians killed in Israeli bombardments were brought to hospitals over the past 24 [hours], raising the overall toll in nearly five months of war to 29,606. The total number of wounded rose to nearly 70,000.

The ministry’s death toll does not distinguish between civilians and combatants, but it has said two-thirds of those killed were children and women. Israel says its troops have killed more than 10,000 Hamas fighters, but has not provided details.

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva wrote on X, formerly Twitter, that he would not give up his “dignity for falsehood,” an apparent reference to calls for him to retract comments comparing Israel’s conduct in Gaza to the Nazi Holocaust, in which 6 million Jews perished during World War II.

“What the Israeli government is doing is not war, it is genocide,” he wrote Saturday. “Children and women are being murdered.”

https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-02-24-2024-1e0e78d7ecf17c29a699c0b3c873a707

 

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