The Jerusalem Post reports: “Hamas claimed in an official statement that ‘Gaza today is the ‘Auschwitz’ of the 21st century’ in response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s Holocaust Thursday Holocaust Remembrance Day speech.

‘Gaza today is the ‘Auschwitz’ of the 21st century, where the ashes are Palestinian and the perpetrator is Zionist,’ the Hamas statement said. 

‘Those who weep for the victims of Nazism are now the masters of genocide in our time,’ the statement added.

Hamas’s response appeared to have taken issue with the words of Israel’s prime minister during a speech at Yad Vashem on Wednesday.

During the speech, Netanuhau paralleled the Nazis to Hamas, and said that his calls for Israel’s military victory were part of a historic path of rebirth following the murder of six million Jews…”