“Had international law been respected, the genocide would have been stopped by the security council after the first set of measures by the ICJ, before Rafah was invaded. But a small number of member states have enabled and nurtured Israel’s conduct, and their genocidal violence has only expanded. If left unpunished, it could encourage other states to carry out these acts. Israel is not the only country to attack UN Rapporteurs. What’s striking in the case of Israel is there’s a cohort of states that echo and reverberate what Israel says and minions that produce fabrications with only one objective: to distract away from the genocide.”
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