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Michaelia Cash disputes UN body findings and says genocide not simply about loss of life in war'

Michaelia Cash, the shadow foreign affairs minister, has discounted findings from a UN commission this week that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, saying genocide was not simply about loss of life in war".

Well, genocide, Sally, as you know, and I'm a lawyer, has a very specific meaning in international law.

It's not simply about loss of life in war, however, tragic. It requires a deliberate intent to destroy a people in whole or in part. Now, Israel has made it very clear that its actions are about defending its citizens from Hamas terrorism, not about destroying the Palestinian people. ...