The Israeli army said Tuesday it had captured parliament and other government insitutions run by Hamas in Gaza City, as its forces deepened their offensive in the Palestinian territory.
Military units “took over the Hamas parliament, the government building, the Hamas police headquarters and an engineering faculty that served as an institute for the production and development of weapons,” the army said in a statement.
Meanwhile, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said Israel is committing the “equivalent of terrorism” in Gaza by killing innocent women and children in its military campaign on Hamas. The veteran leftist had previously condemned as a “terrorist attack” the October 7 assault on Israel by the Palestinian group.
But the leader of Latin America’s biggest country said the group’s actions do not justify Israel’s military response in Gaza, where more than 11,200 people, also mostly civilians, have been killed, according to health officials.
“Israel’s attitude toward children, toward women, is the equivalent of terrorism. There’s no other way to put it,” Lula said in his weekly social media address -AFP
