​(Communicated by the President’s Spokesperson)
 
President Reuven Rivlin this evening  (Tuesday, 4 April 2017) issued the following statement regarding events in Syria.
 
"The pictures we are seeing today from Syria and the reports of the massacre of children, of civilians, with chemical weapons, are a stain on all humanity. The international community in its entirety must come together to bring an end to this murderous madness, and ensure that such scenes will never be repeated anywhere.
 
"I call on the leaders of the international community - and among them the leading powers - to act now, without delay, to stop these criminal, murderous acts taking place in Syria by the hand of the Assad regime, and to work urgently to remove all stockpiles of chemical weapons from Syrian territory.
 
"We, as a people which survived the greatest of atrocities and rose from the ashes to be a strong and secure nation, will do all we can to continue to aid the survivors of the horrors in Syria. We know all too well how dangerous silence can be, and we cannot remain mute."