Julian Fernandez and Olivier de Frouville, law experts: 'What the Israeli defense minister has said is a transparent expression of genocidal intent in Gaza'
- Posted on April 18, 2025
- By Le Monde
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Julian Fernandez and Olivier de Frouville, law experts: 'What the Israeli defense minister has said is a transparent expression of genocidal intent in Gaza'

OP-ED. In a post on X on March 19, Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz offered Gazans a false choice: leave or die. In an op-ed for Le Monde, two professors of international criminal law write that it is rare to hear a state official so openly express a plan that ticks the boxes of the legal definition of genocide.