Marco Rubio Calls Palestinians ‘Barbaric Animals,’ Claims Everything Began with October 7 Operation

Marco Rubio Calls Palestinians ‘Barbaric Animals,’ Claims Everything Began with October 7 Operation

News September 15, 2025
Marco Rubio Calls Palestinians ‘Barbaric Animals,’ Claims Everything Began with October 7 Operation
Occupied Palestine (QNN)- US Secretary of State Marco Rubio described Palestinians as “barbaric animals” and claimed that everything began on October 7, ignoring 77 years of Israeli occupation of Palestine, more than six major assaults on Gaza, and a years-long siege. During a joint press conference with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in occupied Jerusalem on Monday, Rubio reaffirmed the US and Trump’s “unwavering commitment” as an ally of Israel. He claimed international efforts to recognise the Palestinian state “emboldens [Hamas]” and makes it harder to end the war after several counties, including the UK, France, and Australia, announced plans to formally recognise Palestine as a state this month at the UN General Assembly. Rubio also described Palestinians as “barbaric animals” and said: “This is where this all began”. Does everything start on October 7? Palestinians and human rights groups say that Israeli oppression against Palestinians did not begin on October 7, and that the October 7 resistance operation was a response to the ongoing Israeli blockade, occupation, and attacks on Gaza, Jerusalem, and the occupied West Bank. According to them, history did not begin on 7 October. What took place that day followed more than 77 years of Israeli settler-colonialism, and it was triggered by the unbearable conditions in Gaza amid Israel’s years-long siege and imprisonment of more than two million people in the territory. Israel had waged five wars on Gaza, each time mass killing Palestinian civilians as Western leaders justified the slaughter with the familiar mantra “Israel has the right to defend itself.”

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