USA / There is no evidence that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza

The United States have no evidence that the Israel commits genocide in the Gaza Strip, in the war against the Palestinian organization Hamasthe Minister of Defense said today Lloyd Austin, testifying before a Senate committee, according to Reuters.

“We have no evidence of this”Austin told the Armed Services Committee.

Since the attack by Hamas in southern Israel on October 7, approx 1,200 people, according to Israeli data. Israel’s subsequent military offensive on the Gaza Strip displaced almost the enclave’s entire population, 2.3 million people, while accusations are made of genocide, which the Israel denies.

The USA is its most important military supporter Israel but they are lobbying the Israeli government to do more to help them civilians in Gaza.

Meanwhile, the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu he stated yesterday, Monday, that he was appointed date for the launch of a ground attack on Rafahwhich, according to his government, is among the last strongholds of its military arm Hamas at Gaza Strip.

To achieve victory over the Palestinian Islamist movement “we need to enter Rafah and eliminate the terrorist battalions that are there. This will happen – we have set a date,” the Israeli prime minister said in a taped statement, without specifying what that date was.

They say that the US is on the side

THE American diplomacy reiterated yesterday, Monday, its opposition to any large-scale Israeli ground operation in Rafah.

“We have made it clear to Israel that we believe a massive military invasion of Rafah would have extremely harmful consequences for civilians” and “it would, in the final analysis, attack Israel’s own security”spokesman Matthew Miller said during a briefing of accredited editors at the State Department.

“We have made it clear to them that we believe there is a better way to achieve the legitimate objective,” that is to “wear down, dismantle and defeat” Hamas units “still in Rafah,” Miller said, clarifying that the American side did not is aware of the date Netanyahu referred to.