Hamas issued a fierce statement on Thursday in reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu’s remarks during Holocaust Remembrance Day, drawing a highly inflammatory comparison between Gaza and a Nazi concentration camp.
“Gaza today is the ‘Auschwitz’ of the 21st century, where the ashes are Palestinian and the perpetrator is Zionist,” the terror organization declared in its statement.
“Those who weep for the victims of Nazism are now the masters of genocide in our time,” it added.
The message appeared to be a direct rebuttal to Netanyahu’s speech at Yad Vashem, where he drew stark parallels between Hamas and the Nazi regime responsible for the Holocaust.
In his address, Netanyahu said that defeating Hamas is part of a broader historical mission that stems from the destruction of European Jewry and the rebirth of the Jewish nation.
“They [Hamas] are exactly like the Nazis. Like Hitler. Like Haman. They wish to kill and destroy all of the Jews,” said Netanyahu. “It’s not going to happen. We are going to annihilate these Hamas monsters.”
“We will fight vigorously against the fanatical regimes that threaten the entire world. Doing this is the main lesson from the Holocaust,” he said.
Hamas condemned Netanyahu’s statements as “racist and extremist remarks [which] constitute a reinforcement of the genocidal path pursued by his fascist government against our people.”
The group further accused the Israeli leader of hypocrisy, saying that “Netanyahu, who speaks of ‘never again’ regarding the Holocaust, is the very same person leading one of the most horrific acts of genocide in modern times — in which Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are being burned alive in tents for the displaced, under the rubble of homes, buried alive in refugee camps, and beneath the ruins of hospitals and schools.”
“A genocide that requires no ovens—only the latest Western weaponry—and is carried out in full view of the world,” Hamas alleged.
The terror group concluded its statement by declaring, “Resisting this Zionist genocidal project is not only a legitimate right — it is a human duty.”
{Matzav.com}