There is mass murder being carried out in Gaza and the world is just watching. This can’t go on | Husam Zomlot

Right now, the rules-based global order doesn't seem to matter. Major powers have responsibilities and must take them seriously

• Husam Zomlot is the Palestinian ambassador to the UK

Today, the United Nations marks the International Day of Commemoration for the Victims of the Crime of Genocide.

The designation of genocide as an independent crime under international law - alongside war crimes and crimes against humanity - was in reaction to the horrors of the second world war, when Nazi Germany, driven by ideas of Aryan superiority" and a desire for racial purity", pursued an extermination campaign against several peoples they deemed inferior.