Silvia Orriols equates the UN's account of Gaza with that of Hamas and insists on supporting Netanyahu.

The mayor of Ripoll and leader of the Catalan Alliance, Sílvia Orriols, has compared the United Nations' account of the Israeli invasion of Gaza to that of Hamas and has insisted on supporting the Hebrew state and its prime minister, Beniamin Netanyahu's, military offensive in the Strip.

He did so in an interview on RAC1 after an Ipsos poll published by La Vanguardia this weekend gave the far-right party an estimated vote of 11.9% in the Parliamentary elections and 19 seats, which would place it in fourth place in the parliamentary arc, where it currently only has two seats.

Asked by journalist Mònica Terribas about her position of support for Israel after “the death of 65,000 civilians, 20,000 of them children,” Orriols considered it “incredible” that credibility is given to “Hamas’s account of Islamic terrorism” and that “cover is given to this terrorist group that killed more than a thousand civilians and still holds hostages.”

While the journalist pointed out that the data were not from Hamas but from the United Nations, the mayor of Ripoll insisted that her party "supports civilization, not barbarism." "It seems that Israel started the conflict because it felt like it, not to recover the bodies of the hostages," Orriols noted, emphasizing that Hamas governs Gaza because it was voted in by the population.

At that moment, tensions between the two escalated due to the journalist's complaints. The far-right leader lamented that "it's annoying to have the counterargument put on the table" and asked Terribas to respect the speaking time. Otherwise, she said, "I'll hang up because, after all, it's you who called me."