Libya: Israel seeks to wipe out Palestinians
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Libya urges Arabs to stop Israeli attacks on Gaza
Libya calls on Arabs to halt Israel campaign aimed at 'wiping out' Palestinian people following IDF incursions into Gaza Strip
Libya on Saturday called on Arabs to halt what it called an Israeli military campaign aimed at "wiping out the Palestinian people".
War Of Words
Politburo chief Khaled Mashaal lashes out at Israeli operations in Gaza, likens the fighting to Holocaust. Palestinian report 37 fatalities since IDF op began; militants fire 46 rockets at southern Israel over weekend
"What Israel is doing in Gaza confirms that the so-called peace process in the Middle East is a ploy to cover up a continuing campaign to wipe out the Palestinian people," Libya's Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
"This bloody Israeli campaign had laid bare the reality of the aims of the Zionists and their disdain of the so-called peace initiatives," The statement, carried by the official news agency Jana, added.
Israel says it is responding to cross-border rockets that killed an Israeli man in the border town of Sderot on Wednesday and wounded others in the southern city of Ashkelon.
"Libya calls on Arabs to take an urgent position to stop the Zionist machine of mass killing and muster political and material support to rescue the sons of the Palestinian people from this Zionist shoah," The Libyan ministry said. "Libya also calls on the international community to shoulder their responsibility to halt this mass killing."
The Israel deputy defense minister has warned Gazans they risked a "Shoah" If the rocket fire does not stop. The word "Shoah" Is rarely used in Israel beyond discussions of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews but government spokesmen said Matan Vilnai had employed the word only to mean "disaster".
