Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas said this weekend that IDF counter-terrorist operations in Gaza were “worse than the Holocaust.” Approximately 50 Gaza Arabs, most of them Hamas terrorists, were killed in clashes between Hamas and the IDF on Saturday. Two IDF soldiers were killed as well.
Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal used similar wording in a speech to reporters, calling the IDF operations in Gaza “the real Holocaust.” Mashaal also accused Israel of “exaggerating the Holocaust and using it to blackmail the world.”