text: On 18 February 2024, Lula told reporters in Addis Ababa while attending the African Union Summit, "What's happening in the Gaza Strip isn't a war, it's a genocide.... It's not a war of soldiers against soldiers. It's a war between a highly prepared army and women and children.... What's happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn't happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews".
  Honours and awards
  The list of Lula's awards since 2003:
  In 2008 he was awarded the UNESCO Félix Houphouët-Boigny Peace Prize.
  In 2012 he received the Four Freedoms Award.
  National honours
  State honours
  Foreign honours
  Foreign awards
  In popular culture
  Academy Award-nominated Brazilian director Fábio Barreto directed the 2009 Brazilian biographical film Lula, Son of Brazil that depicts the life of Lula up to 35 years of age.  Upon its release, it was the most expensive Brazilian film ever. The film was a commercial and critical failure. Critics charged that it was election propaganda, fostering a cult of personality.
  The Netflix Brazilian series The Mechanism deals with Operation Car Wash, and has a character inspired by Lula, who is referred to as João Higino in the series.
  The 2019 Brazilian documentary The Edge of Democracy, written and directed by Petra Costa, chronicled the rise and fall of Lula and Dilma Rousseff, and the socio-political upheaval in Brazil during the period.