Iran Press/America: The US State Department dismisses genocide allegations as 'unfounded,' emphasizing that the best path to improving humanitarian conditions in Gaza is 'for the parties to work toward an agreement to stop the war'
"We disagree with the conclusions of such a report," State Department spokesperson Vedant Patel told a press briefing. "We have said previously and continue to find the allegations of genocide are unfounded."
Patel acknowledged the importance of international organizations in monitoring the situation in Gaza but emphasized that the US does not share Amnesty’s interpretation.
"That does not change our continued concern as it relates to the humanitarian situation in Gaza," he added. "The best thing that can happen, if we want to see improvement in the humanitarian conditions in Gaza... is for the parties to work toward an agreement to stop the war."
Amnesty’s investigation states that the Israeli regime displaced 1.9 million people in Gaza over the past year, with some individuals uprooted up to 10 times. The report further alleges that 42,000 Gazans, including 13,300 children, have been killed, with 97,000 injured, in what it describes as an unprecedented scale of destruction in the 21st century.
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