• It seems to me that the governments of these nine nations, who were already deficient in failing to take action to prevent this #genocide, and for some of them, already complicit in continuing to arm the #Israeli military, may now have become directly co-perpetrators of genocidal acts through the deliberate deprivation of the necessities of life from a civilian population. This is life-or-death #CollectivePunishment of the #Palestinian population for the unproven crimes of twelve people.

• Many legal experts agree with this perspective (that defunding #UNRWA at this point amounts to a genocidal activity), including #FrancescaAlbanese, the UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories; US #HumanRights lawyer and professor of #InternationalLaw, #FrancisBoyle (one of a very small number of lawyers to have successfully prosecuted a genocide case in the ICJ). And it is a point that has been made by multiple international aid organisations, as well as members of at least two #Labor branches in NSW, who voted a day or two ago to warn their federal MPs (both government ministers) that they are at risk of contributing to genocidal activities.

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