In Egypt, Brazil’s Lula says ‘no explanation’ for Israel’s actions in Gaza

This handout photo taken and released on February 14, 2024, by the Brazilian Presidency shows President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) and his wife Janja da Silva posing for pictures during their visit to the Giza Pyramids plateau on the outskirts of Cairo.  (Photo by Ricardo STUCKERT / Brazilian Presidency / AFP)
This handout photo taken and released on February 14, 2024, by the Brazilian Presidency shows President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (R) and his wife Janja da Silva posing for pictures during their visit to the Giza Pyramids plateau on the outskirts of Cairo.  (Photo by Ricardo STUCKERT / Brazilian Presidency / AFP)

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva says that multilateral institutions are failing to resolve international conflicts and criticized Israeli actions in Gaza.

“Israel’s behavior has no explanation: with the pretext of fighting Hamas, it is killing women and children,” he says after a meeting with Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi.

Lula said there would not be peace without the establishment of a Palestinian state and called for an immediate ceasefire to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.

Israel launched its offensive against Hamas in Gaza after the terror group stormed across the Gaza border on October 7, killing some 1,200 people, most of them civilians in their homes and at a music festival and taking another 253 hostages.

Israel says it does everything it can to avoid civilian casualties but blames Hamas, which has built heavily fortified terror tunnels under homes, hospitals and schools, for using Gaza’s civilian population as human shields.

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