Brazil's Lula da Silva calls Israel's Gaza offensive 'premediated genocide'

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Brazil's Lula da Silva calls Israel's Gaza offensive 'premediated genocide'  Brazil's President Lula da Silva was at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Thursday in a bid to persuade President Macron to back an EU trade deal with South America's Mercosur bloc. But his mind was on the Middle East and he used a speech at the palace to denounce Israel's Gaza offensive as 'genocide.'   READ MORE : http://www.africanews.com/2025/06/06/brazils-lula-da-silva-calls-israels-gaza-offensive-premediated-genocide  Subscribe on our Dailymotion channel and receive all the latest news from the continent.    Africanews is available in English and French.  Website : www.africanews.com  Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/africanews.channel/  Twitter : https://twitter.com/africanews

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00:00Despite the rain, it was a warm welcome for Brazilian President Lula da Silva at the

00:05Elysee Palace in Paris on Thursday.

00:08The visit was meant to be about trade talks.

00:12But during a speech at the palace, Lula struck out at Israel and its ongoing onslaught on

00:17Gaza.

00:18It's important that the world powers put an end to this immediately.

00:23We cannot continue to have the UN calling for a ceasefire and not have a ceasefire respected.

00:29So people, we are still seeing genocide in front of us every single day.

00:35Every single day.

00:36Yesterday, 95 people died, all innocent and civilians.

00:41Not a single one was a Hamas leader.

00:43But then, honestly, I don't even speak as the President of Brazil, I speak as a human being.

00:49We cannot accept a war that does not exist, but rather a premeditated genocide by an extreme

00:56right-wing leader was waging a war, including against the interests of his own people.

01:05It's not the first time the Brazilian leader has claimed a genocide as being committed in

01:09Gaza.

01:11He's been a frequent critic of Israel's offensive and last year compared it to the Holocaust.

01:16Today, everyone is interested in peace.

01:23Ukrainian people are not interested in war either, and neither are the people suffering

01:27in Haiti.

01:29In other words, well, excuse my emotion, but it's sad.

01:34It's sad to know that the world remains silent in the face of a genocide in which the greatest

01:39victims are not soldiers at war, but women and children.

01:45So honestly, the day I lose the ability to be indignant, I don't deserve to be the leader

01:50of my country.

01:52So I apologize.

01:55Brazil has joined South Africa in accusing Israel at the International Criminal Court in

02:00The Hague of violating its obligations under the Genocide Convention.

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