Brazil recalls its ambassador in Tel Aviv for consultations and summons the Israeli ambassador. Israel declared the Brazilian president persona "non grata" for having equated the Israeli offensive against Gaza with the Holocaust.
Lula said the confrontation "between a very prepared army and women and children" had not occurred before in history, except "when Hitler decided to kill the Jews" in World War II. The controversy broke out the day before, when in statements to the press, during a trip to Ethiopia, Lula compared the Israeli military campaign in Gaza to what happened in theocaust.