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U.S. Rejects UN and HRW Claims Against Israel<\/strong><\/p>\n WASHINGTON:<\/strong> On Thursday, the United States expressed its disagreement with a recent finding from a United Nations committee that described Israeli military actions as potentially aligning with \u201cgenocide.\u201d The U.S. also took issue with an allegation from Human Rights Watch that accused Israel of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d in Gaza.<\/p>\n Vedant Patel, a spokesperson for the State Department, emphasized that the report from the UN Special Committee, which claimed Israel was using starvation tactics in warfare, is \u201csomething we would unequivocally disagree with.\u201d He labeled such statements as \u201cunfounded.\u201d<\/p>\n The spokesperson further criticized the Human Rights Watch report that suggested Israel forcibly displaced many Gazans throughout the ongoing conflict, describing it as a situation that amounted to \u201ccrimes against humanity.\u201d Patel stated that the forced displacement of Palestinians would be a serious concern for the U.S. and would clash with the principles laid out by Secretary of State Antony Blinken and the G7 countries at the beginning of the conflict.<\/p>\n Patel explained, \u201cIt is reasonable and acceptable for civilians to be asked to evacuate certain areas during military operations, with the understanding that they can return home afterward.\u201d He concluded by saying that the U.S. has not observed any specific instances of forced displacement.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" U.S. Rejects UN and HRW Claims Against Israel WASHINGTON: On Thursday, the United States expressed its disagreement with a recent finding from a United Nations committee that described Israeli military actions as potentially aligning with \u201cgenocide.\u201d The U.S. also took issue with an allegation from Human Rights Watch that accused Israel of \u201ccrimes against humanity\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[1646,1808,1810,1807,1809],"class_list":["post-2431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-news","tag-antony-blinken","tag-gaza-war","tag-palestinians","tag-united-nations-special-committee","tag-vedant-patel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indiabulletinusa.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}