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Israel has expressed grief implicit the guiltless Palestinian victims of the ongoing warfare against Hamas successful Gaza, saying that each beingness mislaid successful the warfare wass valued.
Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Michael Freeman, expressed this sympathy connected Sunday successful Abuja during an lawsuit to people the 2nd twelvemonth memorial of the war, which was triggered by the October 7, 2023 onslaught connected Southern Israel during which Hamas militants killed 1,200 Israeli citizens and took distant 200 hostages.
The lawsuit displayed highlights of virtual testimonies of survivors of the October 7, 2023 attack, arsenic Israel vowed ne'er to let a repetition of specified dastardly acts connected its soil.
Ambassador Freeman said, “friends, arsenic we retrieve the victims of October 7, we besides explicit sympathy for the guiltless Palestinians who person mislaid their lives successful this war—a warfare Israel ne'er wanted, a warfare Israel ne'er started – a warfare that was forced upon us.”
“We grieve for each guiltless soul, due to the fact that we worth life—all life,” helium added, stressing the subject cognition successful Gaza by Israel was not meant to colonise the onshore but to decision the Hamas militants. He added Israelis were not foreigners to the onshore of Israel contrary to the claims successful definite quarters.
“We are not foreigners successful Israel, we did not colonize the onshore of Israel; we returned to it. Jews person lived successful Jerusalem, Tiberias, Hebron, Tsfat and each portion of our land, for implicit 3,000 years. Through exile and dispersion, we prayed toward Jerusalem, and we remembered Jerusalem astatine each wedding, each festival, and astatine each meal table.
“We revived our language, planted forests, gathered exiles, welcomed survivors, and built a modern technology-based system successful a federation reborn.
“Israel was not created due to the fact that of the Holocaust. It was created successful spite of it. But Israel is not built connected pity. Israel is built connected courage, connected faith, connected history.
“And today, “Never Again” is not conscionable a slogan. It is the Iron Dome that protects children successful Sderot. It is the Israeli aviator successful the sky. It is the 18-year-old miss successful olive uniform, lasting defender truthful that our children tin slumber astatine night.”
He besides expressed gratitude to President Donald Trump of the United States “for his steadfast support, his courageousness successful recognizing truths others ignored, and his unsocial efforts successful bringing our hostages location and helping to yet extremity this war.”
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