The president of Brazil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, described Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as "insane" for wanting to "end" the Gaza Strip through bombings and other military actions in retaliation for the October 7 attacks. Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, local press reported "What we are seeing is an act of insanity by the Prime Minister of Israel wanting to end the Gaza Strip. He is launching missiles, he does not know whose head they are going to fall on, he does not know if someone is going to die, forgetting that there is no There are only Hamas soldiers, there are women, there are children," Lula assured Brazilian journalists accredited at the government house. The president said that a ceasefire in the Middle East is necessary to allow the departure of civilians from the Gaza Strip and that he will spare no effort in removing the almost 30 Brazilians who are seeking to leave the Palestinian territory through the Rafah crossing, in the border with Egypt. The Itamaraty Palace reported this Friday that communications between the Brazilian embassy in Ramallah, West Bank, and Brazilians in the south of the Gaza Strip were cut off because Israel bombed the Internet antennas of the Palestinian enclave.