Venezuela criticizes US and European silence on Gaza massacre

The president compared Hitler’s genocide of the 1940s to the current Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip, where more than 36,000 Palestinians died in eight months, most of them children and women.

It is one of the “most terrible live-streamed genocides that humanity has known since the days of Hitler,” said Maduro, who described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the King Herod of that time, who bombards Muslim and Christian children. , and annuls the International Criminal Court. “Terrible!” he pointed out.

“And what does the United States say? What does Europe say? They remain silent, a genocidal silence, a complicit silence of the United States, of Europe, with one of the most terrible genocides experienced by humanity since the time of Adolf Hitler,” declared the president.

The head of state expressed his hope that justice will prevail in Palestine and affirmed that “the people can no longer tolerate the abuses of the Zionist regime.”

The first vice president of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (PSUV), Diosdado Cabello, on Monday questioned the position of international organizations such as the United Nations in the face of the latest massacre perpetrated by Israel in Rafah, in the Gaza Strip.

The leader defined the position of the political standard by asking: “When will the UN, the world, those who call themselves civilized” react to the genocide and massacre that Israeli Zionism is committing against the Palestinian people? He also pointed out that on Sunday evening the Israeli army attacked a refugee camp in Rafah, where more than 100 people were killed by these fascists, including children burned alive, and dozens injured, and “the world does not doesn’t react at all,” he said. declared.

Cabello pointed out that this is a damaging and embarrassing attitude from those who run these organizations; “They are a shame for the world,” he declared, stressing that “they are complicit in this massacre that imperialism commits every day against a country.” The United States and the European Union also approve resources for Israel to continue murdering the Palestinian people, he said. “They are really disgusting, embarrassing. There is no other qualifier,” he stressed.

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