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US court hears civil case accusing Biden of ‘complicity’ in Gaza ‘genocide’

US President Joe Biden, right, with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu [File: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters]

A civil case accusing United States President Joe Biden and other senior US officials of being complicit in Israel’s “genocide” in Gaza has begun at a federal court in California.

Lawyers representing Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin, attended Friday’s proceedings along with the plaintiffs who accuse them of “failure to prevent and complicity in the Israeli government’s unfolding genocide”.

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