An Israeli mother whose two sons were take hostage by Hamas exploded at MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell when asked how she feels about Israel's counterstrikes in Gaza.
The US Daily Mail reports Renana Gomeh, whose two sons age 12 and 16 were kidnapped by Hamas, became visibly irritated when Mitchell asked her feelings on the attacks in Gaza.
'I can’t be sympathetic anymore. I can’t be sympathetic to animal human beings — well, they’re not really human beings — who came into my house, broke everything,' said Gomeh. 'Stole everything, took my children from their bedrooms and took them to the Gaza Strip.'
Gomeh's children were in their safe room when Hamas broke into their home and kidnapped them.
'I was on the phone with my youngest, I wasn’t at home at the time and all I could hear was him begging for them not to take him because he is too young,' the mother said in a video shared with i.
'They were taken out of their beds by terrorists who broke into my house. They broke the door and took them.'
In the stunning on-air interview, Gomeh accused Mitchell of trying to make a false equivalency of the Hamas attacks and Israel's counterstrikes.
'Look, you’re looking first for a symmetrical situation. And I must say it isn’t. If you were dealing with a war who is between two countries, countries don’t take children hostages,' she said. 'I’m sorry. It’s against the laws of war. It’s against humanity. It’s against anything that we all believe in. Israel never done that, and it will never do. So there is no symmetry.'
The mother said she used to tell her children to have compassion for the children in Gaza, but now she is not so sure.
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