President of Tunisia Kais Saied received Masad Boulos, senior advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump on Arab, Middle East, and African affairs, on July 22 at Carthage Palace. According to a video released by the Tunisian presidency, Saied presented Boulos with distressing images of children in Gaza, highlighting the suffering they endure, reported Middle East Monitor.
China’s TV network CGTN has published a video of the interaction.
Commenting on the images, Saied said: “I believe you know these pictures well—a child crying and eating sand in occupied Palestine. Just one among many…. He eats sand in the 21st century, with nothing else to eat and sand in his hands. Another shows a child close to dying because he has nothing to eat.” Saied stressed that “this human crime is absolutely unacceptable,” and demanded to know: “Is this what international legitimacy looks like? International legitimacy is collapsing day after day. It has no meaning when we look at the tragedies the Palestinian people endure every single day and every hour.”
He concluded by saying that “it is time for all of humanity to wake up and put an end to these crimes committed against the Palestinian people.”
