“If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that they’ll find that it is genocide, and they have ample evidence to do so,” the Democratic senator could be seen saying in a video her staff posted to social media on Monday, in response to a question from the audience on whether she thinks “Israel is committing a genocide.”
On Monday, Warren’s office issued a clarification that she was commenting “on the ongoing legal process at the International Court of Justice, not sharing her views on whether genocide is occurring in Gaza.”
Proceedings are ongoing in the ICJ, in The Hague, the Netherlands, to examine South Africa’s claim that Israel’s aerial and ground offensive in Gaza, launched after Hamas’s October 7 massacre, is aimed at bringing about “the destruction of the population” in the Palestinian enclave.
Israel rejects the accusations as false and libelous, saying it respects international law and has a right to defend itself after some 3,000 Hamas-led terrorists burst across the border into Israel on October 7, killing some 1,200 people and seizing 253 hostages amid wholesale acts of brutality and sexual assault. READ MORE
