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Adiong blasts Locsin over post on Palestinian children: 'May your statement land on deaf ears.'
Lawmakers are criticizing former Philippine Ambassador to the UK Teodoro Locsin Jr. for a controversial social media post regarding Palestinian children.
Locsin's now-deleted tweet suggested that Palestinian children should be killed to prevent them from becoming like the Palestinians who allegedly allowed Hamas to launch rockets at Israel.
Lanao del Sur Representative Zia Alonto Adiong condemned the statement as dangerous, bigoted, and Islamophobic, emphasizing that the killing of Palestinian children is never justified.
Adiong highlighted that over a thousand Palestinian children have died in Gaza in the past week, with a child dying every fifteen minutes.
He added that such rhetoric is unbecoming of a government official tasked with representing the country's commitment to peace and humanity.
Adiong urged that Locsin's statement should land on deaf ears.
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