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UK Prime Minister Says Israel is Not Committing Genocide on Gaza

sajadi - Thursday, 14 November 2024 - 20:59 WIB

Thursday, 14 November 2024 - 20:59 WIB

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UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (photo: Anadolu Agency)
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer (photo: Anadolu Agency)

London, MINA – UK Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, has told the Parliament on Wednesday that Israel is not committing genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, Anadolu Agency reports.

During the Prime Ministerā€™s Questions at the House of Commons, Independent lawmaker, Ayoub Khan, raised from Foreign Secretary, David Lammy, who recently claimed that the term genocide referred to ā€œwhen millions of people lost their lives in comments like Rwanda, the Second World War in the Holocaustā€ and that using it to describe Gaza ā€œnow undermines [its] seriousnessā€.

Khan then said Lammyā€™s words are not acceptable.

ā€œArticle two of the United Nations Genocide Convention makes it explicitly clear that genocide is not about numbers, itā€™s about intent. The intent of the Israeli government and the IDF has been explicitly clear in words and in actions over the past 400 days, killed more than 45,000 innocent men, women and children.ā€

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The lawmaker said the Foreign Minister explicitly denied that genocide was even taking place and ā€œsuggested that the Israeli army had not yet killed enough Palestiniansā€ to constitute genocide.

ā€œWill the Prime Minister share his definition of genocide with this House?ā€ he asked.

In his response, Starmer said: ā€œIt would be wise to start a question like that by reference to what happened in October of last year. Iā€™m well aware of the definition of genocide, and that is why Iā€™ve never described this as and referred to it as genocide.ā€

Francesca Albanese, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories who is currently on a UK visit, has repeatedly affirmed her belief that what is happening qualifies as genocide. (T/RE1/P2)

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Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)

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