Offensive: UN calls it genocide, Israel persists

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  The Economist.

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  Hello and welcome to The Intelligence from The Economist.

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  I'm your host, Rosie Blore.

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  Every weekday, we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

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  Last night, Donald Trump landed in London for a really, really huge state visit.

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  Amid the pomp and pageantry, our correspondent explains what's on the agenda

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  when the American president meets Britain's Prime Minister, Kima.

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  And unusually for me, for the final part of our show today,

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  I slaved over a hot stove, trying out a life hack I'd seen on a Chinese social media video.

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  The result was, well, rather strange.

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  First up, though, Israel has committed genocide in the Gaza strip.

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  That was the finding of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry released this week.

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  Its chair, Navi Pelle, encouraged member states to act now and seek accountability.

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  Today we witness in real time how the promise of never again is broken and tested in the eyes of the world.

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  The ongoing genocide in Gaza is a moral outrage and a legal emergency.

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  Israel's ambassador to the UN rejected the commission report, branding it a libelous rant.

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  These claims in the report rely on misleading statistics,

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  unfounded apocalyptic projections based on weak data on the confleshion of credible and unverified evidence.

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  But it came just as Israel began a renewed assault on Gaza City,

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  where hundreds of thousands of people remain with little place else to go.

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