Outrage as Israeli envoy in Austria calls for killing of Gaza children
A secretly recorded video shows Israel’s ambassador to Austria calling for the killing of Palestinian children and destroying the Gaza Strip at a closed-door meeting in the European country.
Addressing members of the Jewish community in Austria on March 20, ambassador David Roet is head saying, “There should be a death sentence to be killed off in war if you are holding a gun, even if you are a 16-year-old.”
Roet also questions Europe for allegedly wanting to invest in Gaza's reconstruction while Tel Aviv “will have to destroy it the next time.”
The controversial remarks, recorded by members of the Vienna Jewish Anti-Zionist Declaration, have sparked outrage among Jewish activists, who launched the group in the Austrian capital to challenge the misuse of Jewish identity to justify Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians.
An activist who leaked the recording said he was “sickened by the calm in Mr Roet’s voice as he made these statements.”
“No one intervened when he suggested the death penalty for children.”
"I will play golf in #Gaza whether you like it or not" - Former Consul Wiehl-Volgger during visit of Israeli Amb. Roet
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"I felt sickened by the calm in Mr. Roet's voice," says the activist who took the video. "No one intervened when Roet suggested the death penalty for children." pic.twitter.com/ELEps9q6x6
Roet made the remarks two days after a wave of airstrikes shattered the fragile ceasefire in Gaza and killed hundreds of people across the strip on March 18, according to the health ministry in Gaza. The dead included 183 children and 94 women, Palestinian officials said.
Save the Children said in a statement on Tuesday that the resumption of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza has claimed the lives of at least 270 children over the past week.
“Bombs falling, hospitals destroyed, children killed [and] the world is silent,” Rachael Cummings, Save the Children’s humanitarian director in Gaza, said.
“No aid, no safety, no future.”
The organization said the Israeli military’s renewed savagery against Palestinians is “a death sentence for Gaza’s children.”
Over 50,000 people, including more than 17,900 children, have now been killed in Gaza since the war began in October 2023, according to Gaza’s Government Media Office.
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