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Texas Republican Sen . Ted Cruz criticized a United Nations report accusing Israel of genocide, warning that the Trump administration and Congress had tools at their disposal to sanction those behind it.

The report, issued Tuesday by the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory (COI), said, "the State of Israel bears responsibility for the failure to prevent genocide, the commission of genocide, and the failure to punish genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Cruz said, "This latest announcement by the United Nations is no different than any of the other antisemitic smears and libels that have been leveled again

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