MEXICO CITY, Mexico — Israel’s embassy in Mexico on Wednesday condemned the “odious” destruction of a wax statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu by a pro-Palestinian activist at a museum in Mexico City.

A video showing the activist destroying the statue at the city’s Wax Museum was uploaded onto a pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel account on X on Tuesday, captioned: “This is for Gaza.”

It shows the man placing a Palestinian flag at the foot of the statue and then dousing the statue with red paint, whacking it with a hammer and toppling it to the ground.

“The attack carried out on the statue of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is an odious act which sends a dangerous message of violence, intolerance and hate that goes beyond all legitimate criticism,” the Israeli embassy said in a statement.

The embassy added that Israel was fighting “a just struggle [in Gaza] against a terrorist organization whose cruel actions cost the lives of numerous civilians, including Mexican citizens.”

It added that it hoped Mexican cultural institutions would take measures to prevent a repeat of such acts of vandalism.

Israel has been at war with the Hamas terror group in Gaza since the October 7, 2023 attacks in southern Israel, in which thousands of Hamas-led terrorists massacred some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, across dozens of communities and seized 251 hostages.

The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says more than 45,000 people in the Strip have been killed or are presumed dead in the fighting so far, though the toll cannot be verified and does not differentiate between civilians and fighters. Israel says it has killed some 18,000 combatants in battle as of November and another 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7.

Israel has also been battling Iran-backed groups on other fronts, including the Houthis in Yemen, which the activist seemingly referred to, as he shouted “Long live Palestine, Sudan, Yemen and Puerto Rico” after toppling the wax figure to the ground.

It was not clear why he mentioned Sudan — which is embroiled in a civil war of its own — or the US territory of Puerto Rico.

Times of Israel Staff contributed to this report.