Israeli PM Netanyahu should be ‘shot and killed without trial’, says Congress MP at pro-Palestine rally in Kerala

In a shocking statement, Congress MP Rajmohan Unnithan on Saturday said that Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “should be shot and killed without a trial”. The statement came a day after Congress leader Jairam Ramesh said on Friday has condemned Israel’s action in Gaza and termed it genocidal, Speaking at a rally to demonstrate solidarity with Palestine in Kasargod, Kerala, ongoing Israeli ground offensive against Hamas in the besieged Gaza Strip, in the wake of the October 7 terror attacks, the Unnithan openly advocated the “Nuremberg model” (invoking the trial of Nazis in Nuremberg for the holocaust) against the Israeli PM. This comes as the ongoing Israel-Hamas war entered the 43rd day after the October 7 attacks on Israel by Hamas. “You can ask what should be done to those who break all agreements under the Geneva Convention. After the Second World War, there was something called the Nuremberg trials for bringing those (Nazis) guilty of war crimes to justice. The Nuremberg model to shoot those accused of war crimes dead without trial. It is high time that the Nuremberg model was applied here (against the Israeli PM). Today, Benjamin Netanyahu is standing before the world as a war criminal. It’s high time that Netanyahu was shot and killed without a trial because of the atrocities that his forces are committing on Palestinians,” the Congress MP added. The rally was organised by the Kasaragod United Muslim Jamaath on Friday. A politician-turned-actor, Unnithan represents Kasargod in the Lok Sabha. The former chief of the terror group Hamas, Khaled Mashal, virtually addressed a similar solidarity event in Kerala earlier, raising the hackles in the BJP. Congress senior leader Jairam Ramesh said on Friday has also condemned Israel’s action in Gaza and termed the action as horrific and unprecedented. “Israel’s actions following Hamas’ condemnable attack on their citizens are genocidal. The targeting of civilians, women and children, hospitals and shelters violate the values of humanity and every international norm of war,” Congress senior leader Jairam Ramesh said on Friday. At least 11,470 Palestinians — two-thirds of them women and minors — have been killed since the war began, according to Palestinian health authorities, who do not differentiate between civilian and militant deaths. About 2,700 people are reported missing. Israel vowed to wipe out Hamas after the terrorist group launched its Oct. 7 incursion. Some 1,200 people have been killed in Israel, mostly during the initial attack, and around 240 were taken captive by militants. With ANI inputs.