Hamas invites Elon Musk to Gaza to witness ‘massacres and destruction’ | Israel-Palestine conflict News

As Palestinians take inventory of the devastation wreaked by Israel’s army, Hamas says the world ought to do the identical.

Hamas has invited Elon Musk to witness in particular person the scope of the violence and devastation heaped upon the Gaza Strip by Israel.

The invitation from senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan got here on Tuesday. The day gone by, the tech billionaire, who owns social media platform X, had visited a kibbutz focused by Hamas gunmen in the course of the October 7 attack and declared his dedication to do no matter was essential to cease the unfold of hatred.

Hamdan referred to as on Musk, who just lately met Israel’s prime minister and president, to additionally go to Palestine and purchase a extra rounded perspective.

“We invite him to go to Gaza to see the extent of the massacres and destruction dedicated in opposition to the individuals of Gaza, in compliance with the requirements of objectivity and credibility,” Hamdan mentioned in a press convention in Beirut.

“Inside 50 days, Israel dropped greater than 40,000 tonnes of explosives on the properties of defenceless Gazans,” the official added.

Musk has just lately confronted criticism  that his social media platform is rife with anti-Semitism and white nationalist rhetoric selling violence and hatred.

Throughout his go to to Israel, the social media and expertise mogul expressed shock upon seeing the decimated kibbutz of Kfar Aza, saying that Israel had “no choice” but to eliminate Hamas.

Musk additionally struck an settlement beneath which “Starlink satellite tv for pc models [would] solely be operated in Israel with the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Communications, together with the Gaza Strip,” a pointy flip from his earlier musing that he could provide Starlink to boost communications in Gaza amid quite a few telecommunications blackouts.

The Hamas official additionally referred to as upon the US “to overview [its] relationship with Israel and to cease supplying them with weapons,” and for the worldwide group to rapidly ship specialised civil defence groups to assist retrieve 1000’s of our bodies from beneath the rubble.