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Netanyahu: ‘Holocaust was equal to 5,000 October sevenths’
Sam Sokol is the Times of Israel's political correspondent. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lights a candle to commemorate Holocaust Day at the Knesset, Jerusalem, May 6, 2024. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)
The Holocaust was equal to “5,000 October sevenths,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says at the Knesset during the annual “Unto Every Person There is a Name” Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony in Jerusalem.
While Hamas had the “same intention of the Nazi gangs who murdered a third of our people,” their attack was “not a Holocaust” because of the existence of the IDF, Netanyahu says.
“The scale of the carnage in the Holocaust is unimaginable. It is equal to 5,000 October sevenths.”
