The White House has rejected successive findings from multiple organisations that Israel’s assault on the besieged Gaza Strip constitutes genocide, just one day after it said one was taking place in Sudan, Anadolu reports.
“There’s no genocide happening from the Israeli side on Palestinians. It’s clear, as the secretary of state articulated, that what we’re seeing in Sudan is genocide. It’s the wanton, systematic, direct, deliberate slaughter, rape, murder, torture of people based on their ethnicity or their faith that is genocide, and that’s what’s going on,” National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby told reporters.
“That is not what we’re seeing in Gaza, just not. The IDF isn’t waking up every day putting their boots on the floor and saying, ‘Hey, we’re going to go kill some innocent people because they happen to be Palestinian.’ Now that doesn’t mean that there haven’t been too many civilian casualties in this conflict, absolutely too many,” he added in reference to the Israeli military.
Multiple organisations, including a UN special committee that investigated Israeli practices in Gaza and rights group Amnesty International, have concluded otherwise.
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