{"id":495161,"date":"2026-06-16T07:30:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T07:30:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T07:30:12","slug":"belarus-lukashenko-accuses-israel-of-carrying-out-holocaust-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/495161\/","title":{"rendered":"Belarus\u2019 Lukashenko accuses Israel of carrying out \u2018Holocaust\u2019 in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a id=\"HJ1WeKj00AWfe\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ynetnews.com\/jewish-world\/article\/r1dpddaegx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Belarusian<\/a> President Alexander Lukashenko accused Israel of carrying out a \u201cHolocaust\u201d in Gaza during an interview with Al-Arabiya English, saying Israel had killed \u201cso many people,\u201d including women and children.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey already have a bad reputation in the world because of the bombing of Gaza,\u201d Lukashenko said. \u201cIt is a Holocaust. Why do we speak about the Holocaust suffered by the Israelis? While they themselves have killed so many people, women and above all children have died in the Gaza Strip.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"gelleryOpener\" aria-label=\"open article gallery\" data-image-id=\"ArticleImageData.B1lRM1ORWzl\" id=\"image_ArticleImageData.B1lRM1ORWzl\"><\/p>\n<p>1 View gallery <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.B1lRM1ORWzl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HyWwHSgoeg_0_0_3000_2000_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05e8\u05d5\u05d3\u05df \u05d1\u05dc\u05d0\u05e8\u05d5\u05e1 \u05dc\u05d5\u05e7\u05e9\u05e0\u05e7\u05d5  \u05de\u05e8\u05e5 2025\" title=\"Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko  (Photo: AP Photo\/Alexander Zemlianichenko) \" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"ReduxEditableImage_ArticleImageData.B1lRM1ORWzl\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HyWwHSgoeg_0_0_3000_2000_0_x-large.jpg\" alt=\"\u05e8\u05d5\u05d3\u05df \u05d1\u05dc\u05d0\u05e8\u05d5\u05e1 \u05dc\u05d5\u05e7\u05e9\u05e0\u05e7\u05d5  \u05de\u05e8\u05e5 2025\" title=\"Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko  (Photo: AP Photo\/Alexander Zemlianichenko) \" aria-hidden=\"false\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko <\/p>\n<p>(Photo: AP Photo\/Alexander Zemlianichenko)<\/p>\n<p>He said Gaza had been \u201cwiped off the face of the earth\u201d and criticized what he described as plans to build a resort on land where people were killed. \u201cIsrael has to start thinking about its future because otherwise even nuclear weapons will not help them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lukashenko, who has ruled Belarus since 1994, has long been accused by Western governments and human rights groups of crushing dissent, jailing political opponents and suppressing independent media. His disputed 2020 election victory triggered mass protests that were met with sweeping arrests and a violent crackdown.<\/p>\n<p>He also argued that the United States has the power to force Israel to stop military action, saying Israel is \u201cfully dependent\u201d on Washington. He described the Iran crisis as \u201ca war between Israel and Iran\u201d into which the U.S. had become involved.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no military solution,\u201d he said of the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East. \u201cThere are many challenges that need to be addressed and they can only be resolved at the negotiating table.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko accused Israel of carrying out a \u201cHolocaust\u201d in Gaza during an interview with Al-Arabiya&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":495162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43],"class_list":["post-495161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=495161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/495161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/495162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=495161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=495161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=495161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}