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A man in a mask blew up a wax figure of Benjamin Netanyahu at the Wax Museum in Mexico City on Tuesday evening.
In the video posted on social media, it seems that the protester sprayed the statue red and then struck it with a hammer. There is a Palestinian flag at the base of the statue.
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The shattering of the statue comes as Israel is fighting an operation in Gaza, more than 14 months in the making, which has smashed Gaza’s infrastructure and slaughtered more than 45,885 Palestinians.
Israel’s Prime Minister, Netanyahu – on an arrest warrant from the International Criminal Court (ICC) for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza – has drawn wrath from rights organisations that have ruled that his army is killing civilians in the besieged city.
People cheered the statue’s razing online, claiming that Netanyahu gave the green light to torture in Gaza and to plunge the Palestinian enclave into a humanitarian catastrophe.
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