Hundreds rally to commemorate the 108th anniversary of the Armenian genocide -- widely viewed by scholars as the first genocide of the 20th century -- in the Little Armenia section of Los Angeles on April 24, 2023. On Sunday, the Israeli government approved a resolution acknowledging the genocide. File Photo by Jim Ruymen/UPI | License Photo
June 28 (UPI) -- The Israeli government on Sunday voted unanimously to recognize the mass killings of Armenians in the early 20th century as a genocide.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Gideon Sa'ar proposed the vote during a cabinet meeting.
"Despite the extensive and unambiguous historical documentation, the Armenian genocide remains to this day the subject of an institutionalized campaign of denial and minimization, including manipulative rewriting of history, mainly by the Turkish government," Sa'ar said during the meeting.
"It is widely believed that the Ottoman Empire committed crimes amounting to genocide in a systematic manner, with the aim of destroying the Armenian people."
