Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said he would rebuke the Brazilian ambassador after Brazilian President Lula da Silva accused Israel of committing "genocide" in the Gaza Strip.

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva accused Israel of committing "genocide" against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, likening what the Hebrew state was doing to the Holocaust during World War II.

Lula told reporters in Addis Ababa on the sidelines of the African Union summit, “What is happening in the Gaza Strip is not a war, it is genocide,” adding, “What is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has not happened at any other stage in history. In fact, it has happened before.” Indeed, when Hitler decided to kill the Jews.

For his part, Katz said that he would summon the Brazilian ambassador, on Monday, to rebuke him, adding: “The Brazilian president’s statements” are shameful and dangerous... No one will harm Israel’s right to defend itself. I have ordered my staff to summon the Brazilian ambassador to reprimand him tomorrow,” according to his statements reported by the Times of Israel website.

In response to the Brazilian President, Netanyahu, in a statement issued by his office, considered Lula’s statements “shameful and dangerous,” and described them as “a disdain for the Holocaust and an attempt to harm the Jewish people and Israel’s right to defend itself.” He added that “comparing Israel to the Nazi Holocaust and Hitler "Crossing the red line."

He claimed that “Israel is fighting to defend itself and secure its future until complete victory, and it does so with respect for international law,” and announced that he had taken a joint decision with Foreign Minister Israel Katz to summon the Brazilian ambassador to Israel for an immediate conversation and to rebuke him strongly against the backdrop of the statements. .

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