An 88-year-old Holocaust survivor described watching the Gaza situation as horrendous and said Palestinian suffering rhymes with Holocaust suffering. He recounted family separation during World War II, his mother hiding girls, and his father's deportation to Bergen-Belsen in December 1944. He criticized waiting for international courts to label genocide, arguing such delay prevents timely intervention. He said Netanyahu's hostage justification is false and that bombing does not free hostages. He held Western governments and mass media partly guilty for insufficient opposition and misleading coverage. He said an Israeli spokesperson wearing a yellow star made him feel sick and called it a misuse of Holocaust symbolism.
To watch what goes on in Gaza is absolutely horrendous for me, and in lots of ways, the sufferings of the Palestinian people rhymes with the suffering that we had, said Kapos, 88, during an interview on Good Morning Britain. As you mentioned, my family was kind of separated [during World War II]. My mother was in charge of some girls in hiding, the girls were separate, so we weren't together, and my father was taken in December '44 to Bergen-Belsen [concentration camp].
Criticizing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer's decision to await the final decision of the international courts to see whether Israel's conduct in Gaza could be called a genocide, Kapos pointed out that under that kind of approach, you could never stop a genocide because by the time the official words come out, it would be over. Kapos also called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's hostage arguments a false claim, arguing, You do not free hostages by bombing.
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