Israeli official’s remarks on 'killing babies as hobby' clear admission of genocide: Hamas
The Gaza media office says remarks by Israeli opposition leader Yair Golan that the Israeli regime is killing Palestinian babies “as a hobby” are a “clear admission of genocide” against the people of Gaza.
Golan, a retired general and the leader of the Democrats, said on Tuesday that a “sane country doesn’t engage in fighting against civilians, doesn’t kill babies as a hobby and doesn’t set for itself the goals of expelling a population.”
His comment, the media office said, “represents a clear admission from within the Israeli military establishment of the ongoing crime of genocide against our Palestinian people.”
“We affirm that this criminal behavior by the occupation army, supported by this pattern of hateful and incitement-filled statements, reveals the true face of the occupation as a racist colonial regime practicing organized terrorism in full view of the world.”
According to the office, Israeli forces have killed more than 50 people on Tuesday, including 33 children.
In a statement on Telegram, it said the death toll embodies a “complete crime and demonstrates the [Israeli] occupation’s insistence on using killing and starvation as means of war.”
Since October 7, 2023, Israel has killed at least 17,400 children, including 15,600 who have been identified. Many more remain buried under the rubble, most presumed dead, according to health officials.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, stands accused by the International Criminal Court (ICC) of war crimes and crimes against humanity over his regime’s genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza.
Netanyahu’s regime has been using starvation as a method of warfare, deliberately targeting civilians and blocking humanitarian aid in a brutal campaign that has drawn harsh global condemnation.
