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Israel’s UK ambassador defends destruction of ‘the whole of Gaza’: ‘Do you have another solution?’

January 4, 2024 | | Print Article

Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom. Tzipi Hotovely is being accused of calling for “genocide” in Gaza after she defended the Jewish nation’s targeting of tunnel-connected sites such as schools, mosques, and private residences.

“Those areas must be destroyed,” Hotovely told Britain’s LBC on Wednesday.

“One of the things we exposed to the world after getting into the areas in Gaza that we tried to find all those tunnels and underground metro-city that Hamas has built thanks to this great support of Iran, Qatar, the international community, generosity, everything turned to be this horrible terror city,” she stated. “One of the things we realized – that every school, every mosque, every second house has an access to [a] tunnel. So this is– and of course, and ammunition–”

“But that’s an argument for destroying the whole of Gaza — every single building in there,” the host gasped.

Hotovely didn’t flinch.

“So, do you have another solution – how to destroy the underground tunnels city, that this is the place where the terrorists hide, where they have all the ammunition?” she shot back. “And this is the rockets that are still fired on Israeli cities.”

It was, according to Hamas sympathizers on X, “A clear call for genocide.”

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Following the savage attack on Israeli citizens by Hamas on October 7, news of the terrorist group’s use of hospitals, schools, and human shields to defend its extensive network of tunnels began surfacing.

In November, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) confirmed that it struck an ambulance in Gaza that was being used on the battlefield to transport Hamas terrorists, a violation of the international rules of war, which otherwise protect medical transports.

Hamas has long hidden behind its civilians as it launched attacks on Israel.

In 2014, Israeli Prime Minister noted on what was then Twitter that “Hamas conceals ammunition in schools and fires it at schools in Israel.”

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After being freed from 54 days in captivity in Hamas, 21-year-old Israeli-French tattoo artist Mia Schem claimed that “everyone” in Gaza is “a terrorist.”

Schem, who was, along with dozens of others, snatched by the savage Hamas militants in Israel from the Supernova music festival on October 7, was taken to the home of a family in Gaza where she said in her first interview following her release that she “went through a holocaust.”

“Suddenly I realized that I’m with a family,” Schem told journalist Lior Veroslavski. “Suddenly I’m asking myself questions: ‘Why am I in some family’s home? Why are there kids here? Why is there a wife?'”

Asked why she chose to share her harrowing experience, Schem replied, “It was important to me to relay the truth about the nature of the people who live in Gaza, who they are, truly are, and what I experienced there.”

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Still, it is Israel and Hotovely who are being accused of “genocide” by those who refuse to acknowledge Hamas’s stated goal of wiping the Jewish state off the map:

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