Prominent Palestinian leader Mustafa Barghouti condemned Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s claims Wednesday of representing a civilised nation during an address to the US Congress.
“Netanyahu’s speech in the American congress is full of lies and is advocating Islamophobia,” the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) member said in a statement.
“He describes his war crimes of Genocide, collective punishment, and ethnic cleansing as ‘civilization,’” he said. “The civilization that Netanyahu boasts about is, in reality, the degradation seen in the killing of 48,000 Palestinians in Gaza.”
Barghouti also emphasized the tragic toll on children, pointing out that 17,000 Palestinian children have been killed, and 1,200 have suffered amputations because of the conflict.
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