Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office has deleted a post in which Netanyahu said the struggle (between Israel and Hamas) is between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle.

The post was deleted as a hospital in Gaza came under attack killing around 500 people, including several children. As Israel and Netanyahu's post came on radar after the massacre in the hospital, the 'children of darkness' tweet was deleted following outrage on social media. However, the post was from Netanyahu's remarks at the Assembly which remains on record.

"This is a struggle between the children of light and the children of darkness, between humanity and the law of the jungle. We saw this in the horrors that the reprehensible murderers perpetrated in Kibbutz Be'eri, in Kfar Aza, in the other communities of the area adjacent to the Gaza Strip, and in the killing field of young people at a festival in Re'im," Netanyahu said.

 

The language was slammed as genocidal.

 

When Netanyahu calls Palestinians ‘ children of darkness” & his Security Minister says that ‘no aid, only 100s of tons of explosives”:should be delivered to Gaza, moments before a Christian hospital is blown up killing 100s of people seeking sanctuary, you might think ‘war crime’ pic.twitter.com/KesSEELx8l

— nazir afzal (@nazirafzal) October 17, 2023

The audacity of calling us “children of darkness” after Israeli forces killed 1000 children in Gaza since Oct 7.

ONE THOUSAND.

This rhetoric is totalitarian—This is rabid Zionist totalitarianism. I understand even more clearly why they sought to criminalize Nazi analogies. https://t.co/jz4DLmC7GU

— Mohammed El-Kurd (@m7mdkurd) October 17, 2023

Netanyahu blamed Palestinian group Islamic Jihad for the hospital attack in Gaza and denied the role of the Israeli army behind it. "The entire world should know: It was barbaric terrorists in Gaza that attacked the hospital in Gaza, and not the IDF. Those who brutally murdered our children also murder their own children," Netanyahu said.