Netanyahu says Hamas 'the new Nazis,' calls on world to unite, defeat terrorist group

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, while speaking alongside German Chancellor Olaf Scholz at a news conference on Tuesday, described Hamas as "the new Nazis" and called on the world to unite and eradicate the terrorist organization the same way it defeated the Nazis in World War II.

Hamas-led forces crossed the Israel-Gaza border on Oct. 7, slaughtering 1,400 Israeli men, women, children and elderly in what has become the deadliest terror attack in Israel’s history.

"The savagery we witnessed perpetrated by the Hamas murderers coming out of Gaza were the worst crimes committed against Jews since the Holocaust," Netanyahu said during the news conference.

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German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, left, shakes hands with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a press conference in Tel Aviv, Israel, on Tuesday. (AP Photo / Maya Alleruzzo / Pool)

Netanyahu spoke of the terrorism conducted by Hamas, which included rape and murder of women, beheading of people, shooting of children with bound hands, abduction of families, murderers entering attics to kill babies, and the "tearing of grandmothers and Holocaust survivors into captivity."

The death pits, Netanyahu said, remind Israelis of Babi Yar, adding that trucks would surround a hole in the ground where young people were corralled before being shot with machine guns. Babi Yar was the site in Kyiv, Ukraine, where special Nazi death squads fatally shot nearly 34,000 Jews in just a couple of days in September 1941.

"This is the savagery of that we only remember from Nazi crimes in the Holocaust," he said. "Hamas are the new Nazis. Hamas is ISIS, in some instances worse than ISIS. And just as the world united to defeat the Nazis, just as the world united to defeat ISIS, the world has to stand united behind Israel to defeat Hamas. This is part of an axis of evil of Iran and Hezbollah and Hamas.

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An Israeli armored personnel carrier moves toward the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Monday. (AP / Ohad Zwigenberg)

"Their open goal is to eradicate the state of Israel, the open goal of Hamas is to kill as many Jews as they could, and the only difference is that they would have killed and murdered every last one of us if they could. They just don’t have the capacity," Netanyahu added.

Scholz is one of several world leaders visiting Israel after it was first attacked by Hamas this month.

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited with Netanyahu last week, and President Biden is expected to visit Israel on Wednesday in a show of support.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in Moscow on Jan. 30, 2020. (Maxim Shemetov / Pool via AP / File / Fox News)

On Monday, Russian President Vladimir Putin called Netanyahu to reportedly offer his help in preventing a humanitarian disaster while also sharing information about recent calls with regional leaders.

Putin reportedly told Netanyahu about conversations he had with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

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"A unanimous opinion was expressed on the need for an early cease-fire and the establishment of a humanitarian truce in order to urgently provide assistance to all those in need," the Kremlin said of those conversations. "There was also serious concern about the likelihood of the conflict escalating into a regional war."