Jerusalem, APR 23 (EFE) .- The prime minister of Israel, Benjamín Netanyahu, launched an veiled comparison between the Nazi and Iranian regime, which he accused of being “a threat to existence”, during his speech at the official ceremony of Yom Hashoah, Israeli day in memory of the victims of the Holocaust, which he dedicated to the defense of the defense of the country’s military operations.
“We must convince everyone that Hitler’s attack against the Jews of Germany was an attack against humanity as a whole. And today I say: the Iran regime is a threat to destiny and existence, not only of our future, but also for the destiny and future of humanity as a whole,” Netyahu said at the ceremony, which took place in the world center of commemoration of the holocaust (Yad Vashem) Jerusalem and was broadcast live on television.
In recent weeks the Israeli government has intensified its position against Iran, which it accuses of financing and assembling the different militias of the region against it, constantly claiming that this regime should not develop nuclear armament.
The intervention of the Israeli prime minister was an allegation for Israel’s military operation in Gaza, which has claimed the lives of more than 51,300 of its inhabitants, as well as on the border with Lebanon against Hizbulá or in occupied Bank.
“There will not be an Islamic caliphate around Israel: neither in the south, nor in the north, nor in Judea and Samaria” (the biblical name of the West Bank, usually used by the Israeli nationalist right), he said.
“No pressure will prevent us from getting the accounts with the terrible barbarians like the Nazis,” said the president in reference to Hamas.
During the speech, Netanyahu criticized the international pressure against those he defines as key acts of the offensive in Gaza, such as the Rafah (South) operation or the taking of the Philadelphia corridor, on the border with Egypt.
His criticism of these pressures also came within the framework of an Israel divided between those who support the offensive and who demand that the government negotiate with Islamists at the end of it in order to recover the hostages.
The allegation also produced moments after the president of the country, Isaac Herzog, called to end the division in Israel.
“Military pressure against Hamas will continue,” said Prime Minister. During these statements, the live broadcast showed two hostages released from Gaza present at the spot, Sasha Trufanov (released during the truce recently broken by Israel) and his girlfriend, Sapir Cohen (who left the strip during the truce of November 2023), and which was captured by the cameras denying with his head when he heard it.
While Netanyahu holds military pressure on Hamas as the strategy to end the group and, through it, then recover the captives, the relatives of these and those who were released allege that such pressure puts their lives at risk.
Gaza’s Palestinian militias keep 59 hostages in the enclave, of which Israeli authorities estimate that 24 are still alive.
On the day of the Holocaust, or Yom Hashoah in Hebrew, is commemorated in Israel on the 27th of the Nisan, month of the Jewish calendar that falls between April and May, and is marked by a ceremony in which six torches are lit in memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis.
(C) EFE Agency
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