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Top Palestinian lawyer says West is enabling genocide

A leading Palestinian human rights lawyer in Israel has warned western leaders that they are enabling genocide and a new Nakba by condoning “dehumanising” language used by Israeli leaders.

Speaking to Middle East Eye, Diana Buttu said that Palestinians in Israel, as well as the occupied territories, are facing a threat of violence with echoes of the events of 1948.

Buttu said her father’s family had been among hundreds of thousands of people who then fled from their homes never to return - and now feared that her own family could face the same fate.

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Israeli police restrain a woman near the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem (AP)