UN committee: Israel war in Gaza ‘consistent with genocide’
Voice of America
People gather as smoke rises from a UN school-turned-shelter after it was hit in an Israeli strike, in the Rimal neighborhood of Gaza City in the northern Gaza Strip on Nov. 14, 2024.
While fighting continued in Gaza and Lebanon on Thursday, a United Nations special committee said that Israeli policies and practices in Gaza are "consistent with the characteristics of genocide."
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