Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) recently suggested that international authorities could label Israel’s bombing of Gaza a genocide in the enclave.
The Massachusetts Democrat was speaking last Friday at the Boston Islamic Center in Wayland, Mass., when he spoke about the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ruling in January that found it “plausible” that Israel is committing genocide. I received a question from the audience who asked me for my opinion. During the war with Hamas in Gaza.
“So I think…what’s happening now is that when you ask the legal questions, there’s going to be a long and complicated discussion about what genocide is. It’s much more important to say that it’s wrong to be there. And it is wrong,” her publicist said.
Furthermore, when asked if Israel was committing genocide, he said: “If they wanted to do it as an application of the law, they would know it was genocide and they would have enough evidence to do so.” I think they have it.”
Warren’s comments were originally videotaped. Posted on X by a GBH News reporter and later confirmed to The Hill by her office.
“Senator Warren believes that Prime Minister Netanyahu and his right-wing wartime cabinet have caused a massive humanitarian disaster in Gaza and have failed to take reasonable steps to protect civilians,” Sen. Warren reports. officials told The Hill.
The UN’s top judicial body, the ICJ, ruled in January that Israel must do more to protect civilians in the Gaza Strip, but did not order a ceasefire in the strip. .
More than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since early October, when the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel, killing about 1,200 people and capturing about 250.
In her remarks, Warren said people need to think “beyond the label debate.”
“For me, it’s much more important to say that what Israel is doing is wrong. And it’s wrong. It’s wrong to starve civilian children to death in an effort to do your will,” he said. “It’s also wrong to drop 2,000-pound bombs in densely populated civilian areas,” she said. “I think we can have a more effective discussion by explaining the behavior that is occurring.”
Warren has recently stepped up her criticism of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Israel’s wartime operations, following the killing of six aid workers and their driver in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip last week. , said it would move to block the sale of F-15s to Israel.
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