Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday said the Israeli state is committing “genocide” and it is “shameful” that the Indian government is standing “silent” as Israel unleashes this devastation on the people of Palestine.
Hitting back at the Congress leader, Israeli Ambassador to India Reuven Azar said, “What is shameful is your deceit. Israel Killed 25,000 Hamas terrorists. The terrible cost in human lives derives from Hamas’s heinous tactics of hiding behind civilians, their shooting of people trying to evacuate or receive assistance and their rocket fire.”
“Israel facilitated 2 million tonnes of food into Gaza while Hamas tries to sequestrate them, thereby creating hunger. Gaza population has grown 450 per cent in the last 50 years, no genocide there. Don’t buy Hamas numbers,” Azar said on X, tagging Priyanka Gandhi’s post on the microblogging platform.
The Congress slammed the Israeli ambassador’s remarks as “unacceptable” and condemned the words used by him in response to the “pain and anguish” expressed by Priyanka Gandhi.
Priyanka Gandhi said the Israeli state is “committing genocide” and has “murdered over 60,000 people, 18,430 of whom were children”.