Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rejects international pressure to end Gaza war in impassioned Remembrance Day speech of the victims of the Holocaust, reported the Associated Press, quoted by BTA.
Netanyahu declared: "If Israel is forced to stand alone, it will stand alone."
The message came amid growing calls from world leaders for Israel to end the war in the enclave because Israel's military offensive against "Hamas" has caused heavy casualties among the civilian population.
"I say to world leaders: No pressure, no decision in an international forum will stop Israel from defending itself,", Netanyahu said.
Yom Hashoah, the day Israel remembers the 6 million Jews killed by Nazi Germany and its allies during the Holocaust, is one of the most solemn dates on the country's calendar, and speeches at the commemoration usually avoid politics.
Netanyahu also compared the recent wave of anti-Israel and pro-Palestinian protests on American campuses to the situation at German universities in the 1930s, on the eve of the Holocaust