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Live UpdateFrom the Liveblog of Monday, October 9, 2023
El Salvador president, who has Palestinian ancestry, calls Hamas ‘criminals’
Nayib Bukele, president of El Salvador, addresses the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at UN headquarters, September 19, 2023. (Frank Franklin II/AP)
El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, who has Palestinian ancestry, decries Hamas after its attack on Israel.
“The best thing that could happen to the Palestinian people is for Hamas to completely disappear. Those savage beasts do not represent the Palestinians,” Bukele says on the social network X, previously known as Twitter.
“Anyone who supports the Palestinian cause would make a great mistake siding with those criminals.”
He also compares Hamas to the MS-13 gang, which has terrorized El Salvador for years.
