A snap shot of destruction of a wax statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by a pro-Palestinian activist at a museum in Mexico City. courtesy of social media.
A video showing the activist destroying the statue at the city's Wax Museum was uploaded onto a pro-Palestinian account on X on Tuesday, captioned: "This is for Gaza."
It shows the man placing a Palestinian flag at the foot of the statue and then dousing the statue with red paint, whacking it with a hammer and toppling it to the ground.
The Instagram account for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement in Mexico shared a photo of the sculpture on the ground at the Museo de Cera in Mexico City with red paint, simulating blood, on the floor around it.
“We don’t know who did it,” BDS Mexico said in its post, questioning why there was a statue of a “genocidal maniac” at the museum.
The attack carried out on the statue "is an odious act which sends a dangerous message of violence, intolerance and hate that goes beyond all legitimate criticism," the Israeli embassy said in a statement.
The embassy claimed that Israel was fighting "a just struggle (in Gaza)."
Netanyahu, who is facing legal challenges centered around allegations of corruption, has a warrant out for his arrest from the International Criminal Court regarding accusations of committing war crimes against Palestinians in Gaza.
Israel has killed 45,936 people in Gaza, the majority of them children and woemen, according to figures from the health ministry which the United Nations considers reliable.
* This story was edited by Ahram Online.
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