Joan Rivers says Palestinian civilians 'deserve to be dead'
In a video recorded outside LAX airport, Joan Rivers told a TMZ reporter that the Palestinians deserve to be dead because they started the conflict in Gaza and were warned to evacuate buildings Israel planned to bomb. 'At least the ones that were killed were the ones with very low IQs,' she added.
Joan Rivers has little sympathy for civilian deaths in the Gaza Strip."You're dead, you deserve to be dead. You started it. You started it. Don't you dare make me feel sad about that," she said in a video recorded outside Los Angeles International Airport.
The TV personality lifted her hands to her cheeks in mock outrage when a TMZ reporter brought up that nearly 2,000 Palestinians have been killed since the Israel Defense Forces launched Operation Protective Edge a month ago.
"Oh my God! Tell that to the people in Hiroshima," she said. "When you declare war, you declare war. They started it. We now don't count who's dead."
After the reporter reiterated his point about the overwhelming number of civilian casualties in the conflict, Rivers countered that the Israeli military told them about impending attacks — and it's their fault for not heeding the warnings.
"They were told to get out. They didn't get out. You don't get out, you are an idiot. At least the ones that were killed were the ones with very low IQs," she said.
