Netanyahu should be shot and killed without trial: MP Rajmohan Unnithan

Kasaragod: Congress MP Rajmohan Unnithan sparked a row with his remarks during a pro-Palestine rally in Kasaragod, when he said that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should be shot and killed without trial for the cruelty he was committing in Gaza.

The event was organised by the Kasaragod United Muslim Jama-ath, a collective of mosques in and around Kasaragod town, on Friday.

“After World War II, something called the Nuremberg trials was used for those engaged in war crimes. In the Nuremberg trials, war criminals were shot dead without a trial. It’s high time a Nuremberg model trial is carried out. Benjamin Netanyahu is standing before the world as a war criminal. It's high time to shoot and kill Netanyahu without a trial because that's the level of cruelty he is doing,” Unnithan said.

He said that those who break all agreements of the Geneva Convention should be punished. The MP said that Hamas, who took up arms to save their lives, their homeland and their people, should not be called terrorists, reports Manorama Online.

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"America killed 10 lakh Arabs or Muslims in Iraq; it killed seven lakh Muslims in Afghanistan; it killed innocents in Korea and Vietnam. But America’s greed for war has not been satiated. This is what we are seeing in Palestine”, Unnithan said on the ground near Malik Dinar Mosque, the second oldest mosque in India.

"Those who kill lakhs of people are patriots, but those who kill someone to protect their own land are extremists, he said. “If they (Hamas) are extremists, each of us is with the extremists”, Unnithan added, as quoted by Manorama Online.

The MP also said that one should react strongly against anyone who calls Hamas, a terrorist group. It appears to be a reference to a speech made by his party colleague and Thiruvananthapuram MP Shashi Tharoor during another pro-Palestine event when he had referred to the attack by Hamas as a terrorist attack. The event was conducted by the Indian Union Muslim League (IUML), the Congress’s biggest ally in Kerala.

“India's position on Palestine was made clear before Independence by Mahatma Gandhi. From the first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, India recognised Palestine as a nation. Now, I am ashamed to have been born in India. Is our Prime Minister not ashamed to back the US? Today, Rishi Sunak, a person of Indian origin is the prime minister of the UK. But I am ashamed of him. The Indian Prime Minister has shamed India by agreeing to become a vassal of the US and the UK," Unnithan said, reports Manorama Online.

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The Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) is set to conduct a pro-Palestine rally on November 23 in Kozhikode, its first since the Israel-Hamas conflict began in October. All India Congress Committee General Secretary KC Venugopal will inaugurate the pro-Palestine event.

Congress leader Aryadan Shoukath, however, conducted a rally earlier this month even after the party had warned him against it. He had to face disciplinary action for going against the party leadership.

The Israel-Hamas conflict, which began on October 7, entered Day 43. It began when Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Israeli communities, killing 1, 200 and taking 250 people as hostages.

In retaliation, Israel has been attacking the Gaza Strip and parts of Palestine, killing nearly 12, 000 people, mostly women and children, so far. In six weeks of the attack, nearly 1.6 million people have been displaced in the Gaza Strip, the UN said.

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