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The War and Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman with Juan Gonzalez.

As we continue with our web exclusive on the African Union Summit that took place this past weekend

in Ethiopia.

The summit took place in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

It condemned Israel's assault on Gaza, called for its immediate end.

The chair of the African Union Commission, Musifaki Saturday, said Israel's offensive was the

most flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and

accused Israel of having, quote, exterminated Gaza's residents.

Meanwhile, Azale Asumani, president of the Kumoros and the outgoing chair of the African Union,

praise the case brought by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice

where the court ruled there was a plausible case that Israel's committing genocide in Gaza.

During last year's AU summit, an Israeli delegate was removed from the plenary hall

amidst a disagreement over Israel's observer status at the

a U. For more we're joined by Nangala Nia Bola, a writer and political analyst from

Kenya, she's joining us from London.

In part one of our discussion, we talked about the stance of the AU on Gaza.

In addition, you had this very strong statement by the Brazilian President Lula calling what Israel was doing genocide and now he's persona non-grata in Israel.

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