Venezuela Condemns Israeli Genocide, Extermination

TEHRAN (defapress)- Venezuela’s socialist government condemned Israeli strikes in Gaza on Saturday as a policy of genocide that could not be justified as like-for-like warfare.

News ID: 69484

Date: 01 April 2018 - 19:05

President Nicolas Maduro maintained the foreign policy of his predecessor Hugo Chavez, who was popular in the Arab world and broke relations with Israel after accusing it of “holocaust” for its 2009 offensive in Gaza, Reuters reported.

Israel’s latest attacks have “initiated a higher phase of its policy of genocide and extermination with the ground invasion of Palestinian territory, killing innocent men, women, girls and boys,” a Venezuelan government statement said.

“Venezuela also rejects the cynical campaigns trying to condemn both parties equally, when it is clear you cannot morally compare occupied and massacred Palestine with the occupying Israel, which also possesses military superiority and acts on the margins of international law.”