Benjamin Netanyahu has branded Sir Keir Starmer "on the wrong side of humanity" and claimed he "wants Hamas in power" in an extraordinary attack on the Prime Minister.
Israel's PM, speaking to his country in a rambling televised address, laid into Starmer, Canada's Mark Carney and France's Emmanuel Macron after the trio spoke out against Israeli military operations in Gaza.
"I could never understand how this simple truth evades the leaders of France, Britain, Canada, and others," Netanyahu spat.
"They're now proposing to establish a Palestinian state and reward these murders with the ultimate prize.
The Israeli PM also attacked Canada's Mark Carney and France's Emmanuel Macron
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"Well, for 18 years, we had a de facto Palestinian state. It's called Gaza. And what did we get? Peace? No, we got the most savage slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust.
"You won't be surprised to learn that Hamas thanked President Macron and Prime Minister Starmer and Carney for demanding that Israel end its war in Gaza immediately.
"Hamas was right to thank them - because by issuing their demand, replete with a threat of sanctions against Israel, against Israel, not Hamas, these three leaders effectively said they want Hamas to remain in power.
"They want Israel to stand down and accept that Hamas's army of mass murderers will survive, rebuild, and repeat the October 7 massacre again and again and again. Because that's what Hamas has vowed to do.
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'For 18 years, we had a de facto Palestinian state. It's called Gaza. And what did we get? Peace? No, we got the most savage slaughter of Jews since the Holocaust,' Netanyahu said
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"I say to President Macron, Prime Minister Carney, and Prime Minister Starmer: When mass murderers, rapists, baby killers, and kidnappers thank you, you're on the wrong side of justice, you're on the wrong side of humanity, and you're on the wrong side of history."
Netanyahu also raged at how the trio had "bought into Hamas propaganda that says Israel is starving Palestinian children".
His words came just days after a furious Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesman, Oren Marmorstein, launched into a brutal anti-British tirade.
"The British Mandate ended exactly 77 years ago," he said. "External pressure will not divert Israel from its path in defending its existence and security against enemies who seek its destruction."
'We strongly oppose the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza and the restrictions on humanitarian aid,' Starmer's official spokesman said
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Following Netanyahu's address, Downing Street pointed to the Prime Minister's official spokesman's comments earlier today when pushed for a reply.
Earlier, when asked whether Starmer was concerned that Netanyahu's actions could increase risks for British Jews in light of a double killing in Washington DC, the PM's spokesman said:
"That is a matter for the Israeli Government. Our position is very clear - we strongly oppose the expansion of Israel's military operations in Gaza and the restrictions on humanitarian aid.
"We've called for those restrictions to be lifted. But none of that provides any excuse for antisemitism or attacks of this kind.
"It is absolutely heinous and must be stamped out wherever it happens."
