Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claimed on Sunday that Israel was intentionally committing a “genocide” inside Gaza and that the Hamas terrorist organization could not end the war by releasing the hostages and surrendering to the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).
AOC’s comments on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday come despite efforts by Israel to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, which is inspected to ensure that weapons are not being smuggled in to Hamas.
“This word is extremely serious. It’s one that’s taken with extraordinary gravity. And, to me, the threshold of intent is a high one, it is a serious one and is not one that is made lightly,” she said.
She later suggested that Israel was not targeting Hamas: “But what we are seeing here, I think, with a forced famine, is beyond our ability to deny or explain away. There is no targeting of Hamas in…
