The Israeli argument is that some of those statements were taken out of context and that they are made by politicians, not the executors of the military campaign, and the people who are executing the military campaign are inside the IDF and they follow international humanitarian law. They looked at every aspect of the situation on the ground to align the facts with the statements and to conclude that, indeed, the intent is genocide and the acts are genocide. The systematic targeting of virtually every hospital in Gaza, the targeting of schools and churches and mosques and refugee shelters and community facilities, of aid warehouses and aid distribution points, there is no way that they can justify this either legally or in fact by simply using the magic word Hamas or the magic word terrorist.
Author: Nick Schifrin, Zeba Warsi, Dan Sagalyn
Published at: 2025-09-17 22:30:31
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