Netanyahu rebuked for claiming ‘he cares about Palestinians’

Israeli Premier Benjamin Netanyahu has been rebuked for claiming that he cares more about the Palestinian people than their leaders do.
Saeb Erekat, secretary general of the Palestine Liberation Organization, said “the hate that Netanyahu has against the Palestinian people makes him invent a parallel history.”
He said: “Netanyahu is convinced that Palestinians should be thankful for living under an apartheid regime and in exile.”
Palestinians were outraged when Netanyahu said in a video posted online: “I, the prime minister of Israel, care more about Palestinians than their own leaders do. Israel cares more about Palestinians than their own leaders do.” 
The Israeli leader said his comments were in response to allegations that Hamas stole aid from a major charity and the United Nations.
An Israeli court on Aug. 4 charged World Vision’s Gaza head Mohammed Al-Halabi with funding “terror,” while a UN engineer was indicted Tuesday on allegations of working with Hamas’s military wing.
World Vision, while taking the allegations seriously, has said it has seen no evidence presented by Israel and has poured scorn on numbers presented by the Israeli security services that said more than $7 million (6.2 million euro) a year was stolen.
It said in a statement the “cumulative operating budget in Gaza for the past 10 years was approximately $22.5 million, which makes the alleged amount of up to $50 being diverted hard to reconcile.”
A 2014 Israeli invasion against defenseless Gaza killed 2,200 innocent Palestinians including over 500 children.

Source: Arab News