US secretary of state Marco Rubio’s visit to Israel last weekend confirmed what we already knew: the Trump administration has given Binyamin Netanyahu’s government carte blanche to level Gaza in its efforts to destroy Hamas.
Near enough dismissing any chance of a peaceful outcome, Rubio said: “Sometimes when you're dealing with a group of savages like Hamas, that’s not possible.”
It was unsurprising, then, when days later the UN’s human rights council concluded that Israel is committing genocide in its report on the conflict. It said the country is acting “with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group”.
