A masked activist smashed a wax statue of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Museo de Cera in Mexico Metropolis. The activist first positioned a Palestinian flag on the bottom, poured purple paint over the statue after which hammered its nostril and face.
Subsequent, he threw it to the bottom and walked away, shouting, “Lengthy Reside Palestine, Lengthy Reside Sudan, Lengthy Reside Yemen, Lengthy Reside Puerto Rico.” Wax depictions of the British royal household have been additionally seen within the movies shared on-line.
The Museo de Cera, established in 1979, homes over 260 wax sculptures, together with figures from politics, sports activities, and leisure.
The vandalised statue was seen mendacity on the bottom, face down, in photographs shared by the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) motion in Mexico.
BDS Mexico distanced itself from the person, saying, “We do not know who did it,” however questioned the museum’s resolution to show a statue of Netanyahu, calling him a “genocidal maniac.”
The act drew sturdy criticism from Israel’s embassy in Mexico. “The assault carried out on the statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an odious act which sends a harmful message of violence, intolerance and hate that goes past all legit criticism,” it mentioned in an announcement, as per the Times Of Israel. The embassy additionally defended Israel’s actions in Gaza as a “simply wrestle towards a terrorist organisation whose merciless actions value the lives of quite a few civilians, together with Mexican residents.”
Additionally they urged Mexican cultural establishments to take steps to forestall related acts of vandalism sooner or later.
Benjamin Netanyahu has confronted worldwide criticism over allegations of conflict crimes in Gaza, with the Worldwide Felony Courtroom issuing an arrest warrant towards him.
Israel’s conflict on Gaza has entered its sixteenth month, leaving the slender strip in ruins and far of the inhabitants internally displaced and going through a scarcity of meals. Even camps meant to shelter these already wounded and displaced haven’t been spared. Netanyahu’s conflict, which got here in retaliation to Hamas’ October 7, 2023, assault on southern Israel has thus far led to over 46,000 deaths, a overwhelming majority of them girls and youngsters, based on Gaza’s well being ministry.