Fifty years later, there are still unburied dead and nameless graves. There are still people who, unknowingly, live with someone else's identity. There are still unsolved crimes and unpunished criminals.
In the full glare of the world's media spotlight, Israel has been conducting its genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza while the mass killing of civilians in Sudan has not stopped since the outbreak of that country's war in 2023. Violence is ongoing elsewhere from Myanmar's civil war to conflict in Nigeria. Drone attacks targeting noncombatants have become commonplace in Ukraine while massacres of civilians across multiple conflicts continue, including in Ethiopia, Haiti, Myanmar, Yemen all with apparent impunity.
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Her report, which examines the role of 63 states in Israel's actions in both Gaza and the West Bank, calls out the multilateral system for decades of moral and political failure in a colonial world order sustained by a global system of complicity. Through unlawful actions and deliberate omissions, too many states have harmed, founded and shielded Israel's militarised apartheid, allowing its settler colonial enterprise to metastasise into genocide, the ultimate crime against the indigenous people of Palestine, she said.
More than 30 legal experts have called on the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) to bar Israel and its clubs from competitions over the atrocities in Gaza. The letter, addressed to UEFA president Aleksander Ceferin on Thursday, said banning Israel is imperative, citing a report by United Nations investigators that confirmed Israel is carrying out a genocide against Palestinians.
Labour delegates at the party's conference in Liverpool have backed a motion urging the government to "employ all means reasonably available to it to prevent the commission of a genocide in Gaza". The non-binding motion also called for a full suspension of the arms trade with Israel. Another motion called on the government to suspend the sale of arms to Israel "that could be used in the conflict" rather than a full suspension, but that was rejected by delegates.
Genocide thrives when the world averts its eyes, and history is repeating before us. When we prevent or put an end to genocide, we honour the victims of past genocides and, in doing so, keep their memory alive. We draw a clear line between reasonable human behaviour and our capacity to inflict unimaginable violence on others. In doing so, we help ensure the suffering of the past is not repeated.
"First of all, I think we want to acknowledge that there is a genocide going on in Palestine," she told RTÉ Radio One's Morning Ireland. "Every country has the right to self-determine, how to govern. "Hamas who I have condemned over and over, I have never been equivocal on it," she said. "They were elected by the people the last time there was an election. They are part of the civil society."
An independent inquiry commissioned by the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) found that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. According to the report released on Tuesday, four of the five genocidal acts found in the 1948 UN Genocide Convention have been carried out in Gaza. The report called on the international community to end the genocide and take steps to punish those responsible for it.
The IAGS, a 500-member body of academics founded in 1994, is the world's leading association of genocide scholars. Eighty-six percent of IAGS members voted in favour of a resolution stating that Israel's policies and actions in Gaza fulfil the definition of genocide set out in the 1948 United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
