US Sen. Warren: World Court has ‘ample evidence’ to find Israel guilty of genocide
Democrat tells supporters at mosque that ‘what Israel is doing is wrong,’ alleges Israel using starvation as tool of war, dropping ‘2,000-pound bombs in densely populated areas’
United States Sen. Elizabeth Warren believes Israel will be found guilty of genocide in the International Court of Justice, according to comments she made at a Boston mosque last week.
“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 at 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.
The Monday clarification added that the senator “believes that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu and his right-wing war cabinet have created a massive humanitarian disaster in Gaza and have not taken reasonable steps to protect civilians.”
At a Q&A at a Wayland mosque last week, @SenWarren is asked if she thinks that Israel is committing a genocide.
"If you want to do it as an application of law, I believe that they will find that it is genocide," she says, adding that she's trying to get "past a labels argument" pic.twitter.com/mxqBP6oTlH
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In her comments at the mosque last week, the senator also accused Israel of deliberately causing the humanitarian crisis in Gaza, where the United Nations says most of the population is on the brink of famine.
“For me, it is far more important to say what Israel is doing is wrong. And it is wrong. It is wrong to starve children within a civilian population in order to try to bend them to your will. It is wrong to drop 2,000-pound bombs in densely populated civilian areas,” she told the crowd.
According to a Gaza health ministry update on Monday, 33,207 Palestinians have been killed in six months of conflict, while most of the enclave’s 2.3 million people are homeless.
The death toll figures issued by the Hamas-run health ministry cannot be independently verified, and are believed to include both civilians and Hamas members killed in Gaza, including as a consequence of terror groups’ own rocket misfires.
The IDF says it has killed over 13,000 operatives in Gaza, in addition to some 1,000 terrorists inside Israel on October 7. Some 260 IDF soldiers have been killed in Gaza since the start of the IDF’s ground offensive.
