New York, Sept. 24 -- Chilean President Gabriel Boric used his podium at the United Nations General Assembly to demand that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and "those responsible for the genocide against the Palestinian people" face an international court, framing Gaza not only as a political emergency but as a "crisis of humanity" that demands justice rather than vengeance. That framing lands amid an intensifying catastrophe in Gaza, where civilians continue to die and hunger deepens, a grim tableau The Eastern Herald has chronicled in recent days as Israel's Gaza massacre leaves civilians dead and starving.

"I do not want to see Netanyahu destroyed by a missile with his family," Boric said in his address. "I want to see Netan...