As Palestinians take stock of the devastation caused by the Israeli army, Hamas says the world should do the same.
Hamas invited Elon Musk to the Gaza Strip to see the extent of the damage caused by Israeli bombing, but the tech billionaire said it was “dangerous there right now.”
The invitation from senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan arrived on Tuesday.
It seems a little dangerous there right now, but I believe that a prosperous Gaza in the long term is good for all parties.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 28, 2023
“It seems a little dangerous there right now, but I believe a prosperous Gaza in the long term is good for all parties,” Musk said on X, the social media platform he owns.
He had visited a kibbutz the day before that was targeted by Hamas gunmen during the October 7 attack in southern Israel and declared his commitment to doing whatever was necessary to stop the spread of hatred.
Hamdan called on Musk, who recently met with the Israeli prime minister and president, to also visit Palestine and gain a more comprehensive perspective.
“We invite him to visit Gaza to see the scale of the massacres and destruction committed against the population of Gaza, while respecting the standards of objectivity and credibility,” Hamdan said at a press conference. in Beirut.
“In 50 days, Israel dropped more than 40,000 tons of explosives on the homes of defenseless Gazans,” the official added.
Musk has recently faced criticism that his social media platform is rife with anti-Semitism and white nationalist rhetoric promoting violence and hatred.
During his visit to Israel, Musk expressed shock at seeing the decimated Kibbutz Kfar Aza, saying Israel had “no choice” but to eliminate Hamas.
He also reached an agreement that “Starlink satellite units would only be operated in Israel with the approval of the Israeli Ministry of Communications, including in the Gaza Strip”, a radical departure from his previous thinking that it could provide Starlink to improve communications. in Gaza amid numerous telecommunications outages.
The Hamas official also called on the United States “to review (its) relations with Israel and stop supplying them with weapons”, and for the international community to quickly send specialized civil defense teams to help recover thousands of bodies under the rubble.
