From the beginning of the Israeli army massacre on Gaza under the pretext of responding to the attacks of Hamas of October 2023, international relations experts denounced and defined as genocide the military strategy of Israel. In Spain, some politicians with a humanitarian activist or NGO also made it clear then. Almost two years later, with more than 60,000 killed Palestinians and a completely razed territory, Pedro Sánchez has pronounced up to three times in the same day the word genocide. Only the leaders of the Spanish right resist using this term despite the fact that the vast majority of Spanish public opinion qualifies the Israeli offensive as a genocide.
We talk to Rosa Ana Alija Fernández, aggregate professor of Public International Law at the University of Barcelona, what the international conventions and the right over the term genocide say, if it is applicable to what is happening in Gaza and why this is or is not important.
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