“Odious Act”: Israeli Embassy After Activist Destroys Netanyahu Wax Statue

A masked activist smashed a wax statue of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Museo de Cera in Mexico Metropolis. The activist first positioned a Palestinian flag on the bottom, poured pink paint over the statue after which hammered its nostril and face.

Subsequent, he threw it to the bottom and walked away, shouting, “Lengthy Dwell Palestine, Lengthy Dwell Sudan, Lengthy Dwell Yemen, Lengthy Dwell Puerto Rico.” Wax depictions of the British royal household had been additionally seen within the movies shared on-line.

The Museo de Cera, established in 1979, homes over 260 wax sculptures, together with figures from politics, sports activities, and leisure.

The vandalised statue was seen mendacity on the bottom, face down, in photographs shared by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) motion in Mexico.

BDS Mexico distanced itself from the person, saying, “We do not know who did it,” however questioned the museum’s resolution to show a statue of Netanyahu, calling him a “genocidal maniac.”

The act drew sturdy criticism from Israel’s embassy in Mexico. “The assault carried out on the statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an odious act which sends a harmful message of violence, intolerance and hate that goes past all professional criticism,” it mentioned in an announcement, as per the Instances Of Israel. The embassy additionally defended Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “simply wrestle in opposition to a terrorist organisation whose merciless actions price the lives of quite a few civilians, together with Mexican residents.”

In addition they urged Mexican cultural establishments to take steps to stop comparable acts of vandalism sooner or later.

Benjamin Netanyahu has confronted worldwide criticism over allegations of struggle crimes in Gaza, with the Worldwide Prison Courtroom issuing an arrest warrant in opposition to him.

Israel’s struggle on Gaza has entered its sixteenth month, leaving the slender strip in ruins and far of the inhabitants internally displaced and going through a scarcity of meals.  Even camps meant to shelter these already wounded and displaced haven’t been spared. Netanyahu’s struggle, which got here in retaliation to Hamas’ October 7, 2023, assault on southern Israel has to this point led to over 46,000 deaths, a overwhelming majority of them ladies and youngsters, based on Gaza’s well being ministry.