<span style="color: #222222;">Israeli and German leaders have expressed outrage after the Palestinian President accused Israel of committing 50 Holocausts against his people. Mahmoud Abbas made the claim during a news conference with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz in Berlin on Tuesday. Mr Scholz said nothing at the time, but later called the president's comments intolerable and unacceptable.<br />''<br />''Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid said Mr Abbas's accusation was not only a moral disgrace, but a  lie. Six million Jews were murdered in the Holocaust, including one and a half million Jewish children following the criticism, Mr Abbas reaffirmed in a statement that 'the Holocaust is the most heinous crime in modern human history'. Mr Abbas travelled to Berlin with the aim of winning Germany's support for a bid by the Palestinians to join the United Nations as a full member state and asking it to help restart long-stalled peace talks with the Israelis.<br />''<br />''After meeting Mr Scholz at the Federal Chancellery, the president Abbas  was asked by reporters whether he planned to apologise to Israel and Germany ahead of the 50th anniversary of a deadly attack by Palestinian militants on Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics. He said, from 1947 to the present day, Israel has committed 50 massacres in Palestinian villages and cities – in Deir Yassin, Tantura, Kafr Qasim and many others – 50 massacres, 50 Holocausts and until today, and every day, there are casualties killed by the Israeli military, he added.</span><br />