What will the UN’s Gaza genocide report achieve?

By Jonathan Este, Senior International Affairs Editor, Associate Editor, The Conversation

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The report of the UN’s independent international commission of inquiry on Palestine, released this week, makes for gruelling reading. It found that Israel’s 23-month campaign in Gaza is being waged “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial…

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