Richard Madeley appeared to compare Palestinian civilian deaths to those in Nazi Germany in the Second World War during a discussion on Good Morning Britain.
“When [the Allies] invaded Europe in 1944 and defeated the Nazis by going into Germany and in doing so... quite apart from the bombing campaigns, from the RAF and American air force, a lot of German civilians were killed,” Madeley explained.
“Nobody at the time made any excuses or apologies for that, they just saw it as a necessary evil,” he continued, before questioning if that was a “fair parallel” to be made with the Israeli bombardment and feared ground offensive in Gaza.
“I think we’ve moved on, from those times, haven’t we?” co-host Susanna Reid then asked.