The Israeli President stated, “I completely reject her claims. I feel she’s by no means been in Gaza.”
Israeli President Isaac Herzog has slammed Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie after her current remarks on the Israel-Hamas Conflict. Mr Herzog was in an interview with Piers Morgan and said that he witnessed personally what occurred on the primary day of the assaults and the way it was the “worst atrocity as a nation.” Ms Jolie had just lately posted about her anti-Israel stance on her social media accounts. Whereas referring to her expertise working with the United Nations to assist refugees, Ms Jolie said that her “focus is on the folks displaced by violence in any context.”
She added, “What occurred in Israel is an act of terror. However that can’t justify the harmless lives misplaced in bombing a civilian inhabitants in Gaza that has nowhere to go, no entry to meals or water, no risk of evacuation, and never even the essential human proper to cross a border to hunt refuge.” She wrote that Gaza was “quick turning into a mass grave” on account of Israel’s airstrikes and that “the world watches” as “thousands and thousands of Palestinian civilians – youngsters, girls, and households – are being collectively punished” in a later submit that included a photograph that appeared to point out a current Israeli strike within the Gaza Strip.
Reacting to the identical, Mr Herzog within the interview stated that Ms Jolie has not visited Gaza and she or he isn’t providing Israelis any skill to defend themselves by her remarks. “I completely reject her claims. I feel she’s by no means been in Gaza…. to go to and see the information on the bottom. In Gaza now there may be warfare, however there isn’t any humanitarian disaster that doesn’t allow them to outlive,” he stated.
The Israeli President added, “Angelina Jolie doesn’t provide the Israeli folks any skill to defend themselves by saying what she’s saying. And Gaza is a jail not due to Israel. Israel pulled out of Gaza. Gaza is an Iranian base stuffed with terror. Maybe the result of this warfare will allow the Gazan individuals who deserve a good good life to get pleasure from it underneath a special regime that may allow motion in direction of peace. You may inform me, in fact, the civilians are to not blame. Fantastic, if the civilians are to not blame, then please allow Israel to uproot these terrorists.”
The President additionally recollected the morning of the October 7 assault by Hamas. He said that there have been sirens all throughout they usually ran to shelters. “It was 6:30 a.m. The silence in the complete neighbourhood was torn to items by immense sirens after which booms. We instantly realized we had been underneath an enormous missile assault… and the shock was enormous. We ran to the shelters. Then we began getting the limitless information about atrocities all through our southern border, about folks being locked in shelters and burned and underneath assault. And all hell broke unfastened. We have gone by the worst atrocity as a nation because the institution of the state of Israel. The very best quantity of Jews killed because the Holocaust, about eight or 9 occasions, by way of 9/11, of our nationwide proportion of casualties,” he informed Piers Morgan.
In the meantime, Angelina Jolie’s father, Jon Voight, additionally said that he was “disenchanted” by his daughter’s remarks. He stated in a video posted on X, “I’m very disenchanted that my daughter, like so many, has no understanding of God’s honour, God’s truths. That is about destroying the historical past of God’s land – the Holy Land – the land of the Jews. That is justice for God’s youngsters of the holy land.” He continued, “The Israeli military should defend thy soil, thy folks. That is warfare. It isn’t going to be what the left thinks, it may possibly’t be civil now.”