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We are all here to charge this administration with genocide. Israel and the United States are jointly complicit in the

ongoing Nkva and Palestine. Together they are rending international law worthless and irrelevant.

In scenes reminiscent of the 1948 Nachba, tens of thousands of Palestinians continue to flee on foot from their homes in northern

Gaza as Israel intensifies its aerial and ground assault.

Three Palestinian groups have petitioned the International Criminal Court to investigate

Israel for committing genocide and apartheid.

We'll speak to Palestinian Human Rights Attorney Nura Erakat, but first, we talked to the Israeli-born historian,

Brown University Professor Omar Bartov,

one of the world's leading authorities on genocide.

Israeli political leaders and military leaders have made very startling and frightening

statements about

flattening Gaza, speaking about moving the entire population of Gaza out of Gaza,

that is a clear intention of ethnic cleansing.

So those statements show intent and that's a

genocidal intent which is often very difficult to prove. All that and more

coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now.

Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report, I'm Amy Goodman.

Israeli tanks have surrounded hospitals in the Gaza Strip following a series of strikes on Palestinian

medical facilities.

The World Health Organization reports Al-Shifa and Gaza City, the

territory's largest hospital, remains under heavy bombardment.

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