{"id":9540,"date":"2025-05-27T23:53:19","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:53:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9540"},"modified":"2025-05-27T23:53:19","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T23:53:19","slug":"only-the-word-genocide-can-describe-whats-happening-in-gaza-belgian-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/?p=9540","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Only the word genocide can describe what\u2019s happening in Gaza\u2019: Belgian FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium\u2019s Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot has said that \u201conly the word genocide\u201d can describe Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the foreign minister, it is not up to me to make such statements. But my personal opinion is that this is very close to genocide. I don\u2019t know what other horrors have yet to occur before that word can be used,\u201d Prevot in said in an interview with Humo magazine.<\/p>\n<p>He said he felt \u201cvery angry\u201d seeing images of death, destruction, and hunger coming out of Gaza.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have been saying since April that the humanitarian blockade is an absolute disgrace. Deliberately starving a population is a war crime,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am in favour of sanctions against the military and political leaders on both sides and against the Jewish settlers who are forcibly evicting the Palestinians from their homes in the West Bank,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is no longer enough for the Belgian government to condemn the situation; actions are needed to make Israel move.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium\u2019s Foreign Minister Maxime Prevot has said that \u201conly the word genocide\u201d can describe Israel\u2019s actions in Gaza, Al Jazeera reports. \u201cAs the foreign minister, it is not up to me to make such statements. But my personal opinion is that this is very close to genocide. I don\u2019t know what other horrors have yet [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9540"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9542,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9540\/revisions\/9542"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weeklyyoung.pk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}