‘Lot of Hypocrisy, Palestinians Only Ones Not Allowed to Flee’ | Israeli Ambassador Reuven Azar EXCL - video Dailymotion

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In an exclusive interview with Asianet News, Israeli Ambassador to India Reuven Azar calls out what he calls 'hypocrisy' regarding the Gaza conflict. He highlights the harsh reality that Palestinians are the only group not allowed to flee Gaza, raising tough questions on the blockade and humanitarian access. Watch the full interview here -&nbsp;

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00:00talked about great trust plan and it says that how there is a plan to actually let Palestinians

00:06who are there in Gaza to take, you know, hostage in neighboring Arab nations to go there to live

00:14there until the Gaza Strip redeveloped itself. Now, my question to you is that

00:22do you think that Arab nations first is going to accept it?

00:26Secondly, I want to know if this is going to be as per the wills of the Gazans or is it going to be

00:33something which we'll see forcefully happening? There is a rough hypocrisy here because in any

00:40conflict that we've seen in the last few decades refugees could flee to neighboring countries

00:46until peace is restored. We saw it in Ukraine, we saw it in Syria and we're seeing in other places.

00:54The Palestinians are the only ones that are not allowed to flee. And why is that? I think it's

01:00mainly for two reasons because the Arab countries are not sincere in trying to help their neighbors

01:07and to a certain extent they also are concerned because in the past different groups of Palestinians

01:14have, you know, creating chaos in countries like Jordan, like Lebanon, like Syria, like Kuwait, etc.

01:23So we have to deal with that ourselves. We are not going to forcefully

01:29exile people. We know that a very large amount of the population in Gaza would like to flee to a safe

01:37haven until the situation improves. And the question is whether we have vehicles to do that.

01:43This is something that we're contemplating. But at the end of the day, we know that the best way to

01:49serve the interests of our people and our neighbors is to get Hamas out of the Gaza Strip.

01:55Is it possible that some of the Gazans can be absorbed in Israel so that you can better deal

02:01with the situation in Gaza Strip? Well, we have been, you know, dealing with a lot of humanitarian

02:06cases throughout the years. We've been treating thousands of Gazans in hospitals. We've been employing

02:12Gazans in the past. Unfortunately, this was manipulated by Hamas. And we found ourselves,

02:18including on the 7th of October, with people that came to work in Israel. And they used that

02:24in order to draw the charts of attack and the plans of attack against Israel.

02:28So we are today much more cautious when it comes to hosting Palestinians as a result of that.

‘Lot of Hypocrisy, Palestinians Only Ones Not Allowed to Flee’ | Israeli Ambassador Reuven Azar EXCL

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