内容摘要：Despite her high-profile client, Delgado told Al Jazeera that the scrutiny over her candidacy is misplaced: She maintains she was only doing her job as a lawyer.

Despite her high-profile client, Delgado told Al Jazeera that the scrutiny over her candidacy is misplaced: She maintains she was only doing her job as a lawyer.

French president calls establishment of a Palestinian state ‘a moral duty and a political necessity’.French President Emmanuel Macron has warned that his country could “apply sanctions” against Israelis unless the government in Tel Aviv responds to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza.

Speaking during a visit to Singapore on Friday, Macron said the international community could not remain passive while Palestinians in Gaza face a deepening hunger crisis. The comments raise further the international pressure building on Israel, which has blockaded the Palestinian enclave for close to three months, with aid agencies warning of famine.“The humanitarian blockade is creating a situation that is untenable on the ground,” Macron said at a joint news conference alongside Singapore’s Prime Minister Lawrence Wong.“If there is no response in the coming hours and days in line with the humanitarian situation, we will have to harden our collective position,” he added, suggesting that France may consider applying sanctions against Israeli settlers.

Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs lashed out later in the day, saying, “The facts do not interest Macron.”The ministry claimed that there was no humanitarian blockade on Gaza and that asserting the contrary was “a blatant lie”, despite UN top officials and international organisations having repeatedly stated that Israel has blockaded all entry of aid since March 2.

Israel recently said it was bowing to international pressure and would allow “minimal” supplies of food and medicine into Gaza, on which it continues to wage an intense military assault.

However, the trickle of aid entering the strip under the control of a new, shadowy NGO backed by Israel and the United States has been accompanied by intensive bombardment and the shooting of Palestinians desperately trying to reach aid distribution points.While Israeli soldiers have since been told not to publish war videos after one holidaying soldier was forced to flee Brazil after a judge ordered an investigation into his wartime conduct in Gaza, a trail of self-incrimination remains.

Often soldiers have shown genocidal intent, for example, by making statements on camera of their intent to destroy all of Gaza.While such an intention is usually difficult to prove because, in the language of the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the “intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group” must be proven, many videos collected by the I-Unit show clear examples of intention.

The I-Unit's investigation has also featuredby Declassified UK showing the role played by the British base at RAF Akrotiri on the island of Cyprus. The British have been running surveillance flights over Gaza since early December 2023, supposedly to facilitate the rescue of Israeli captives.