Senior EU official says Gaza crisis ‘looks very much’ like genocide

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -A senior member of the European Union’s executive said the displacement and killing in Gaza looked very much like genocide, the first commissioner to level that accusation and publicly break with the body’s position on the conflict.

“If it is not genocide, it looks very much like the definition used to express its meaning,” Teresa Ribera – the European Commission’s second-highest ranking official – told Politico in an interview published on Thursday.

Israel has…