San Francisco:Following Elon Musk’s go to to Israel, the tech billionaire has now been invited by Hamas to Gaza to witness the destruction of the besieged enclave territory beneath Israeli assaults.
In accordance with The Guardian, Musk was invited by a senior Hamas official Osama Hamdan, throughout a press convention in Beirut on Tuesday.
“We invite him to go to Gaza to see the extent of the massacres and destruction dedicated towards the individuals of Gaza, in compliance with the requirements of objectivity and credibility,” Hamdan mentioned.
Nevertheless, in response to a put up concerning the information inviting him, Musk said that the state of affairs “appears a bit harmful there proper now.”
“Appears a bit harmful there proper now, however I do consider {that a} long-term affluent Gaza is sweet for all sides,” he wrote on X.
Musk on Monday visited the Kfar Aza in Israel, which was one of many first locations to be attacked by the Hamas militant group when it launched its unprecedented assault on October 7.
Greater than 1,200 individuals have died in Israel, whereas over 200 others had been taken as hostages.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accompanied him to the residence of Ofir Liebstein, who fought again and died whereas preventing Hamas.
Musk has been severely criticised for anti-Semitic content material on X in latest weeks. He additionally got here beneath rising fireplace for supposed failures to fight antisemitism on X.
US President Joe Biden’s administration lately slammed Musk of repeating a “hideous lie” about Jewish individuals, because the X proprietor continues to endorse far-right viewpoints and agrees with posts that promote antisemitism.
Musk replied to a put up sharing an antisemitic conspiracy principle, calling it “precise reality”.
He responded to a conspiracy principle that motivated the person who killed 11 individuals at a Pittsburgh synagogue in 2018.