Israel’s actions in Gaza ‘will not be forgotten for maybe centuries’: Ex-Malaysia leader
Malaysia’s former Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has told Al Jazeera that Israel’s conduct in Gaza, which has prompted an investigation by the International Court of Justice for genocide, “will not be forgotten for maybe centuries”.
More than 65,000 people have been killed in Gaza since October 2023, almost all of the Palestinian territory’s population are displaced, and hundreds of thousands have sustained injuries, many life-altering.
“Gaza is terrible,” Mahathir said. “They killed pregnant mothers … babies just born, young people, boys and girls, men and women, the sick and the poor … How can this be forgotten?”
Berlin protesters call for German government to stop genocide in Gaza
Protesters at Saturday’s large pro-Palestinian demonstration in the German capital have told Al Jazeera that their country had an obligation to act to halt the genocide in Gaza.
“We Germans already have a history, so it shouldn’t happen again,” said one woman. “‘Never again’ is now, and that’s for everyone, right?”
One of the organisers of the protest, Michael Barenboim, said it was “time to make clear to the German government that complicity in genocide must be opposed”. “The German government has an obligation to prevent and punish genocide,” he said. “We want to insist that the German government gets held to these obligations.”
