As Palestinians take stock of the devastation caused by the Israeli army, Hamas says the world should do the same.
Hamas has invited Elon Musk to bear witness in person to the extent of the violence and devastation inflicted on the Gaza Strip by Israel.
The invitation from senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan arrived on Tuesday. The day before, the tech billionaire, owner of social media platform was necessary to stop the spread of hatred.
Hamdan called on Musk, who recently met with the Israeli prime minister and president, to also visit Palestine and gain a more comprehensive perspective.
“We invite him to visit Gaza to see the scale of the massacres and destruction committed against the population of Gaza, while respecting the standards of objectivity and credibility,” Hamdan said at a press conference. in Beirut.
“In 50 days, Israel dropped more than 40,000 tons of explosives on the homes of defenseless Gazans,” the official added.
Musk has recently faced criticism that his social media platform is rife with anti-Semitism and white nationalist rhetoric promoting violence and hatred.
During his visit to Israel, the social media and technology mogul expressed shock at seeing Kfar Aza kibbutz decimated, saying Israel had “no choice” but to eliminate Hamas.
Musk also reached an agreement that “Starlink satellite units would only be operated in Israel with the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Communications, including in the Gaza Strip”, a radical departure from his previous thinking that it could provide Starlink to improve communications. in Gaza amid numerous telecommunications outages.
The Hamas official also called on the United States “to review (its) relations with Israel and stop supplying them with weapons”, and for the international community to quickly send specialized civil defense teams to help recover thousands of bodies under the rubble.
