In a readout of one of the calls between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Netanyahu said “savagery” like this has not been seen “since the Holocaust.” He said Hamas is “even worse than ISIS and we need to treat them as such.”
In a readout of his call with Biden, Netanyahu’s office says he told the US leader: “We’ve never seen such savagery in the history of the state” nor “since the Holocaust.”
“They took dozens of children, bound them up, burned them and executed them. They beheaded soldiers, they mowed down these youngsters who came to a nature festival, you know, put five jeeps around this depression in the soil and like Babyn Yar, they mowed them down, making sure that they killed everybody.”
“They’re even worse than ISIS and we need to treat them as such.”
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