'How many acts of genocide does it take to make a genocide?': Prem Thakker to U.S. State Dept.
“There’s this harrowing image of a teenage boy in a wheelchair who was killed. This is after a week of Israeli forces killing a save the Children staffer, three World Central Kitchen workers, the head chef of the Gaza Soup Kitchen, an ICU director, shooting a ten-year-old girl. How do attacks like these … have anything to do with Hamas?”
Watch Zeteo’s Prem Thakker call out the U.S. Government for its silence over a litany of genocidal attacks in Gaza in just the span of a week, wondering what Hamas has to do with the killing of innocent civilians.
Amnesty International: Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza with Full U.S. Support
Amnesty International has released a landmark report that concludes Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, making it the first major human rights group to do so.
The nearly 300-page report examines the first nine months of the Israeli war on Gaza and finds that Israel's actions have caused death, injury and mental harm on a vast scale, as well as conditions intended to bring about the physical destruction of Palestinians in Gaza.
Both Israel and the United States have rejected Amnesty's conclusion. Amnesty researcher Budour Hassan, who covers Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, dismisses the criticism and says, if anything, Amnesty's intervention took too long because of how carefully the group gathered and verified its information. "We tried to be absolutely true to the definition of 'genocide' under the Genocide Convention," says Hassan, who urges U.S. officials in particular to do more to stop the bloodshed.
"If there is any country that has the capacity, the power and the tools to stop this genocide, it's the United States. Not only has the United States failed to do so, it has consistently awarded Israel. It has consistently continued to flout the United States' own laws in order to continue giving Israel the weapons — the very same weapons that are used by Israel to commit the genocide in Gaza."
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