2023-10-24 19:24:00
He sees the suffering of people “both here and there,” but “there is someone who is responsible for this suffering, for the killing and for the mistreatment, and that is only Hamas,” Sobotka emphasized on Monday.
On the occasion of the upcoming national holiday, Sobotka also recalled Austrian neutrality – a model that Austria is still doing well, Sobotka is convinced. He also sees neutrality as a mandate to speak out “where our community of values is under attack.” That is why they condemned Russia’s war of aggression once morest Ukraine and are now also expressing a clear stance towards the terrorist organization Hamas.
Visit to Sderot
Hamas seized the Gaza Strip in order to establish an Islamic state and “ultimately destroy Israel.” Sobotka said he doesn’t understand how Israel’s right to self-defense can even be questioned. During a visit to the Israeli town of Sderot near the Gaza Strip, he saw what it meant to have to go to the bunker every day, traumatizing the children “on both sides of the borders,” as Sobotka said. But the following also applies to the victims in Gaza: “Hamas is responsible and no one else is responsible.” They are “taking their own people hostage.”
Despite the heated mood and increased terror alert level, Parliament is sticking with a “concept of openness” for the open day on the national holiday, said Sobotka.
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