A popular content creator has apologised after being accused of making racist comments towards Palestinians during one of his streams on Twitch.
Zach Hoyt, known as Asmongold, was suspended from Twitch after saying that Palestinians had "come from an inferior culture" and for proclaiming that he had no sympathy over Israel's genocide in Gaza.
"I was way too much of an asshole about the Palestine thing," Hoyt said on X.
"Of course, no one deserves to have their life destroyed even if they do things or have views I find regressive," he said, adding that he would "do better".
In a video titled, 'My Plans Moving Forward' uploaded to his almost three million subscribers on YouTube, Hoyt admitted he had said something "disgusting" about Israel's war on Gaza when he said he did not care about innocent people being killed by Israel.
"I think that's a horrible, disgusting mean-spirited thing to say," Hoyt said in the video.
Hoyt said he was at fault for categorising the people of Palestine as a religious extremist group and not distinguishing between the two.
The streamer had faced intense backlash online and Twitch had issued a two-week ban on his account.
In the stream, Hoyt said he was not going to "cry a f**king river" for people who have "genocide" that was "baked into their laws".
"These people are not your allies, they are not the same as us, they come from an inferior culture that is horrible," Hoyt said.
The streamer also suggested that Palestinians were "not able to kill as many people as Israel because they don't have as many bombs and as many weapons".
"No, I don't feel bad for them, I don't feel sorry for them, I don't care, I don't support them"
In a statement to IGN, Twitch said: "We take enforcement action when there are violations of our community guidelines, including our hateful conduct policy and other rules."