Corbyn Lashes out at Netanyahu over Gaza Massacre

Leader of Britain’s Labour Party Jeremy Corbyn lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the Tel Aviv regime’s killing of Palestinians in Gaza.

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Date: 14 August 2018 - 14:22

TEHRAN (Defapress)-“Israeli PM @Netanyahu's claims about my actions and words are false,” Corbyn tweeted Monday, adding that “what deserves unequivocal condemnation is the killing of over 160 Palestinian protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces since March, including dozens of children”, Middle East News reported.

Corbyn’s comment followed an attack by the Israeli premier alleging that the British politician supports terrorism.

“The laying of a wreath by Jeremy Corbyn on the graves of the terrorist who perpetrated the Munich massacre and his comparison of Israel to the Nazis deserves unequivocal condemnation from everyone – left, right and everything in between,” Netanyahu said.

"The nation state law sponsored by @Netanyahu's government discriminates against Israel's Palestinian minority. I stand with the tens of thousands of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel demonstrating for equal rights at the weekend in Tel Aviv," Corbyn stressed.

Since weekly mass rallies began along the Israel-Gaza border in late March, at least 175 Palestinians have been killed and 18,000 others wounded by Israeli army fire. The overwhelming majority of the dead and wounded have been unarmed, according to Gaza health officials. Two Palestinian journalists were killed while covering the protests in April and three medics were also shot dead in May, early June and mid-August.

The Amnesty International has stressed that the attacks on Palestinian protesters by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip are “willful killings constituting war crimes".

The Gaza Strip has been under an Israeli blockade since June 2007. The blockade has caused a decline in the standard of living as well as unprecedented levels of unemployment and unrelenting poverty.

Israel has also launched several wars on the Palestinian sliver, the last of which began in early July 2014 and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and injured over 11,100 others.

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