The Jewish people remember the Holocaust.

 

#We_never_forget,_we_never_forgive.

 

The Jewish people remember the Holocaust. The Kurdish people remember Halabja. Two ancient nations that know the pain of massacre and the duty to never remain silent. 

 March 16 Remembrance Day for the Halabja Massacre

 

 

 

 The Jewish people, who endured the Holocaust in which six million Jews were murdered, understand deeply the meaning of national tragedy and the pain of peoples who have suffered cruelty and mass killing. Today we bow our heads in memory of the victims of the Halabja Massacre. On March 16, 1988, the regime of Saddam Hussein carried out a brutal chemical attack against the Kurdish population of the city of Halabja in northern Iraq. Thousands of innocent civilians, women, children and the elderly, were suffocated by poisonous gas. According to estimates, between 3,200 and 5,000 people were killed, and 7,000 to 10,000 more were injured, most of them civilians. It was one of the most horrific crimes committed against the Kurdish people in the 20th century. Even today we continue to witness persecution and bloodshed in the Middle East. In recent months, the Iranian regime has murdered tens of thousands of people in cold blood, including members of the Kurdish people. The Jewish people and the Kurdish people, two of the most ancient peoples in the world, know too well the pain of persecution, massacre and attempts at destruction. And on October 7, more than 1,000 Israeli civilians were brutally murdered by Hamas terrorists, human beasts who committed horrific crimes against women, children and entire families. Today we light candles in memory of the victims, for remembrance, for justice and for a world in which such crimes will never happen again. May their memory be a blessing. Yehuda Ben Yosef President of the Kurdish Community in Israel Senior Expert on Kurdish Politics and the Relations Between Israel and the Kurdish People #Halabja #HalabjaMassacre #Kurdistan #NeverForget #StandWithKurds #StandWithIsrael #HumanRights #October7 #YehudaBenYosef

 

Yehuda Ben Yosef

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