SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva recalled Brazil’s ambassador to Israel for consultations, the Brazilian Foreign Ministry said on Monday, following the diplomatic crisis triggered by the Brazilian president’s comments comparing the fate of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to the genocide of the Jews by the Nazi regime.
Israel had previously summoned the Brazilian ambassador to protest.
Israeli Foreign Minister Israel Katz said Monday that Lula would not be welcome in Israel until he reversed his statements.
At an African Union summit this weekend in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Lula said that “what is happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people has no parallel in other periods of history.
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“In fact, this already happened when Hitler decided to kill the Jews,” he added.
(Report by Lisandra Paraguassu and Peter Frontini, French version by Bertrand Boucey, edited by Nicolas Delame)
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