We return now to the Israeli airstrike in Raffa yesterday, which killed scores of

civilians. What we know about how it happened and its wider significance. We get two

views. First, Nura Erakotte is Associate Professor at Rutgers University and a human

rights lawyer.

Nura, welcome and thanks for joining us. As you heard, we reported earlier, Prime Minister

Nethigna who says this was a tragic mistake and Israeli officials will

investigate. What questions do you want to see answered from that

investigation and do you think you'll get those answers? What we saw yesterday was the asphyxiation and the burning to death of civilians

by the plastic tents that are meant to shelter them.

That means that they died in agony.

Not only have they been put through a genocide,

but even in their death, they are put through indescribable pain

and suffering.

At this point, we need to be asking questions about the systematic nature of

Israel's campaign which the ICJ has said is plausibly genocide. It is the duty to

prevent genocide not to punish it.

After the third ICJ decision now demanding an immediate ceasefire,

why does this operation continuing knowing full well

that Hamas cannot be defeated militarily and that in the outcome

now some 40,000 civilians 13,000 of them children who have been killed all the

hospitals destroyed all the universities

destroyed 80% of the population sheltering in the south with no safe zone.

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