Alwaght- Jeremy Corbyn, leader of Britain’s Labour Party, is lashed out at Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu over the regime’s killing of Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
“Netanyahu’s claims about my actions and words are false. What deserves unequivocal condemnation is the killing of over 160 Palestinian protesters in Gaza by Israeli forces since March, including dozens of children,” Corbyn tweeted Monday.
Israeli Regime forces have killed at least 168 and injured more than 18,000 Palestinians during the “Great March of Return,” a campaign started since March 30 asking for the right to return of displaced Palestinians to their lands.
Corbyn’s comment followed an attack by Benjamin Netanyahu who accused the British politician of laying a wreath at the graves of members of a Palestinian group in Tunisia that allegedly killed 11 Israeli athletes and a German policeman at the 1972 Munich Olympics.
"The laying of a wreath by Jeremy Corbyn on the graves of the terrorist who perpetrated the Munich massacre and his comparison of Israel to the Nazis deserves unequivocal condemnation from everyone – left, right and everything in between,” Netanyahu said.
Britain’s right-leaning Daily Mail on Friday reported that Corbyn, on a visit to Tunisia in 2014, attended a a Palestinian wreath-laying ceremony.
Speaking for the first time since the images emerged, Corbyn told Sky News “A wreath was indeed laid by some of those who attended the conference for those who were killed in Paris in 1992.”
The reference to Paris is understood to relate to Atef Bseiso, the Palestinian Liberation Organization's (PLO) head of intelligence who was killed in the French capital in 1992 in an Israeli assassination.
Asked whether he was involved in the wreath laying in relation to the Munich incident, Mr Corbyn said “I was there because I wanted to see a fitting memorial to everyone who has died in every terrorist incident everywhere, because we have to end it. You cannot pursue peace by a cycle of violence. They only way you pursue peace is by a cycle of dialogue.”
Mr Corbyn also made reference a wreath being laid for Bseiso in an article for the Morning Star in 2014.
He wrote: “After wreaths were laid at the graves of those who died on that day and on the graves of others killed by Mossad agents in Paris in 1991, we moved to the poignant statue in the main avenue of the coastal town of Ben Arous, which was festooned with Palestinian and Tunisian flags.”
The mention of the 1991 killing is believed to be a mistake and instead refer to the death of Bseiso in 1992.
Mr Corbyn’s team had previously insisted he had only laid a wreath at another memorial – to pay tribute to the 47 Palestinians killed in an Israeli air strike on a PLO base in Tunisia in 1985.
Leader of Britain’s Labour Party also criticized racist nation-state-law recently introduced in Israeli regime, saying: "I stand with the tens of thousands of Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel demonstrating for equal rights at the weekend in Tel Aviv."
The apartheid law, passed on July 19, is widely criticized domestically and internationally as it violates the rights of the non-Jews in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The so-called Jewish nation-state law marred hopes of some Palestinian factions, represented by the Palestinian Authority, and also some Arab states who have been seeking peace in negotiations with Tel Aviv, as the law officially puts an end to the two-state solution which eyes a Palestinian state beside an Israeli one.
