Francesca Albanese

I studied what the main experts have said, and I had no doubt whatsoever that we could already speak of genocide in March 2024.

Israel was killing without respite, without distinctions, without respect for proportionality and precautions, which are the basic tenets of international humanitarian law, 150 civilians each day.

It didn't count.

It didn't matter if they were

Doctors, priests, infants, everyone was destroyable.

Everyone was killable.

Everyone was maimable.

And this is how Israel had managed to kill 30,000, 30,000 Palestinians in Gaza alone in a few months.

And it has used international law, jargon, to justify its operations.

An international community has allowed it to do so, using evacuation orders, human shields, collateral damage, safe zones.

Nothing of this has ever been real.

And still, this is the language that has allowed Israel to benefit from impunity.

So first of all,

First of all, let's put genocide aside for a moment.

The occupation is unlawful and the very presence of Israel there is unlawful.

The second is Israel should take precautions, should not kill civilians.

The moment it kills for days, weeks, months, civilians without respite, what is it?

A series of war crimes.

Shall not the international community intervene?

Of course it should.