Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has accused Israel on Sunday of committing genocide against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip and compared its actions to Adolf Hitler’s campaign to exterminate Jews. “What’s happening in the Gaza Strip isn’t a war, it’s a genocide,” Lula told reporters in Addis Ababa where he was attending an African Union summit. “It’s not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It’s a war between a highly prepared army and women and children,” added the veteran leftist. “What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other…