The Director General of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, Eidan Bar-Tal, summoned the Belarusian ambassador to lodge a formal protest regarding Lukashenko's statements.
The Belarusian president had criticized Israel in televised remarks, saying that the "Jewish lobby" influences American policy and has dragged the United States into a confrontation with Iran.
Lukashenko added that “the scale of the destruction in Gaza has led many to reconsider the historical narrative of the Holocaust,” continuing that “many have begun to look at history and ask: What Holocaust? How can we talk about a Holocaust when the Israelis have killed this huge number of people in Gaza, especially women and children? Everything has been wiped off the face of the earth.”
According to the Hebrew newspaper, the Israeli official, during his meeting with the Belarusian ambassador, considered Lukashenko's statements to be "outrageous, anti-Semitic and unacceptable."
Bar-Tal added that Israel "strongly rejects the comparison between the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust and the war on terror," referring to the Israeli genocide in the Gaza Strip.
With American support, Israel began a two-year war of extermination on the Gaza Strip on October 8, 2023, which resulted in more than 73,000 martyrs and more than 173,000 wounded, most of them children and women.
Despite the ceasefire agreement in October 2025 , Israeli violations resulted in the martyrdom of 1,005 Palestinians and the injury of 3,157 others, in addition to restrictions on the entry of agreed humanitarian aid.
