Former Irish President Delivers Keynote Address at UN Conference on Israel-Palestine

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1. Rights groups are first in Israel to accuse government of genocide

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".... B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said they analyzed Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the rhetoric of Israeli political and military leaders and concluded there has been deliberate intent by Israeli decision-makers to target the whole population of Gaza rather than strictly combatants and to destroy life for the Palestinian people and the enclave’s health and civilian infrastructure as part of a 21-month campaign.

B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel said they analyzed Israel’s conduct in Gaza and the rhetoric of Israeli political and military leaders and concluded there has been deliberate intent by Israeli decision-makers to target the whole population of Gaza rather than strictly combatants and to destroy life for the Palestinian people and the enclave’s health and civilian infrastructure as part of a 21-month campaign.

... In a 79-page report released Monday, B’Tselem said Israel’s war tactics went beyond what is necessary to dismantle Hamas as a fighting force, and documented instances in which Israeli politicians and senior officials openly called for Gazans to be starved and the territory flattened. About 2 million Palestinians live in the enclave.

... To rebut allegations that starvation was occurring in Gaza, COGAT, the branch of the Israeli military that coordinates civil affairs in the occupied territories, shared a widely circulated photo Monday of an emaciated Palestinian boy who it said was in fact afflicted with a genetic disease, not hunger..."