There is mass murder [GENOCIDE] being carried out in Gaza and the world is just watching. This can’t go on

A Palestinian child in the Maghazi refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, which was hit by Israeli air strikes on Thursday 7 December 2023. Photograph: Adel Al Hwajre/Imageslive/Zuma Press Wire/Shutterstock

 

There is mass murder being carried out in Gaza and the world is just watching. This can’t go on

Husam Zomlot

Right now, the rules-based global order doesn’t seem to matter. Major powers have responsibilities and must take them seriously

• Husam Zomlot is the Palestinian ambassador to the UK
   

  Sat 9 Dec 2023 05.00 EST

Today, the United Nations marks the International Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Crime of Genocide.

The designation of genocide as an independent crime under international law – alongside war crimes and crimes against humanity – was in reaction to the horrors of the second world war, when Nazi Germany, driven by ideas of “Aryan superiority” and a desire for “racial purity”, pursued an extermination campaign against several peoples they deemed inferior.... READ MORE

 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/dec/09/mass-murder-gaza-world-watching

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