Cameron rejects genocide claims against Israel
Lord Cameron has dismissed South Africa's case against Israel at the International Court of Justice as "unhelpful" and said it would be very difficult to prove Israel had the intent to commit genocide. Report by Etemadil. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We think the South African action is unhelpful, we think it's wrong, we think it shouldn't be going ahead.
00:06 To prove genocide, you've also got to prove effectively intent to genocide.
00:13 Now you can disagree with what Israel's doing.
00:15 My argument is they are acting in self-defense because of the appalling actions that Hamas did on October 7th.
00:22 But even if you take a different view, can you really believe that this democracy that operates under the rule of law
00:29 and with armed forces that have to abide by international humanitarian law,
00:33 that they have the intent to commit genocide, I think that is wrong and I don't think this case should be going ahead.