Milei called on Hamas to release hostages: “Argentina does not remain silent in the face of terror”

President Javier Milei called for the “immediate release” of the hostages held by the Islamist group Hamas, within the framework of the commemorative act of the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust, where he also pledged to “end the impunity that surrounds” the attack on the AMIA and the Israeli embassy. You may also be interested in: Natalia Oreiro: “I moved to Buenos Aires on the same day of the AMIA attack; “Argentina does not remain silent in the face of Hamas’ terror and demands the immediate release of all kidnapped civilians, including our eleven compatriots,” the president began by saying at the headquarters of the Holocaust Museum, located at Montevideo 919 in this capital where the liberation in 1945 of the Nazi concentration and extermination camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau was commemorated. In statements gathered by Télam.” This new government has the vocation to make Argentina a free and thriving country, which will once again be seen with hope and admiration. A country that will once again be a destination to welcome those fleeing the yoke of oppression and seeking peace and the possibility of prosperity as it did with the Jewish people,” he said. Milei accompanied by his ministers at the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Holocaust | Photo: NA. In this sense, the president linked the past of the Holocaust with the attack by the Islamist organization Hamas that murdered 1,200 people and kidnapped 240, including a score of Argentines. Not since the Holocaust has there been the coordinated murder of so many Jews en masse in one day. In a global context of resurgent anti-Semitism, we need to be firm in our position of intransigence against terrorism and not look the other way. The stories of the survivors we shelter in our country are a testament to strength and hope. Their life stories are an example and dictate to us the moral imperative to keep the memory alive so that atrocities like these are never repeated,” he said, while stressing that “Argentina was for a long time (mid-19th and early 20th centuries) a refuge and destination for all the persecuted peoples of the world.” The commemoration was established universally in 2005 by the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which approved a resolution that established January 27 as the International Day of Commemoration of the Victims of the Holocaust, a date that Argentina commemorates every year. This year it was held today because the 27th coincides with Shabbat, the holy day of Judaism during which no work activities are carried out, among other religious prescriptions. As for the officials of the gabiniete of Milei, Diana Mondino (Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship), Mariano Cúneo Libarona (Justice), Sandra Pettovello (Human Capital), Luis Petri (Defense), the advisor, Santiago Caputo, the head of the Buenos Aires government, Jorge Macri, together with the president of the Holocaust Museum of Buenos Aires, Marcelo Mindlin, accompanied and were present.

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