Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu blamed international hostility toward Israel for the shootings of two embassy staffers in Washington, DC.
He said Canada, France, and the UK — all of whom recently criticized Israel’s actions in Gaza and warned of sanctions if the military offensive continued — of siding with “mass murderers, rapists, baby killers, and kidnappers” and fomenting a global atmosphere of antisemitism.
The UK prime minister this week described the humanitarian situation in Gaza as “intolerable” and called Israel’s decision to permit small amounts of aid “utterly inadequate;” the leaders of France and Canada made similar comments.
Some trucks reached Gazan citizens on Wednesday, the first aid since March, but the UN called it “nowhere near enough.”