These were among the strongest comments on the conflict from Lula, a prominent voice for the global south whose country currently holds the rotating presidency of the G20.
The 78-year-old leader condemned Hamas’s October 7 attack on Israel as a terrorist act.
Hamas’s attack resulted in the deaths of about one thousand one hundred and sixty people in Israel, mostly civilians.
Militants also took about two hundred and fifty people hostage, one hundred and thirty of whom are still in Gaza, including thirty who are presumed dead.
