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Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva condemned the "genocide" in Gaza this Tuesday at the UN General Assembly and noted that "this massacre would not happen without the complicity of those who can prevent it."
Lula also harshly criticized "the use of hunger as a weapon of war" and the displacement of civilian populations, which occurs "with impunity".
"Nothing, absolutely nothing, justifies the ongoing genocide in Gaza. There, under tons of rubble, are buried tens of thousands of innocent women and children, and also buried is humanitarian law and the myth of the ethical superiority of the West," said Lula at the UN podium.
The Brazilian ruler also warned that the Palestinian people "run the risk of disappearing" and stressed that they will only survive as an independent state, with the support of the international community.
The Brazilian leader also reiterated his condemnation of Hamas' "terrorist" attacks against Israel on October 7, 2023, which triggered the conflict.
Lula participated the day before in the international conference for the two-state solution, in which he condemned the Israeli offensive, which he described as "ethnic cleansing" and "extermination of the Palestinian people".
Brazil has strongly condemned the Israeli offensive against the Gaza Strip, which has caused more than 65,000 deaths, and has repeatedly urged all parties in the conflict to cease hostilities.
Diplomatic relations between Brazil and Israel are minimal, after the Jewish State declared Lula 'persona non grata' for comparing the war in Gaza to the Holocaust and calling it a "genocide" against the Palestinian people.
