"It gives you the right to assassinate him wherever you see him in the world.
"This is all in the Geneva Convention."
The Geneva Convention does not support her claims and, in fact, specifically states otherwise.
The section of the convention on general warfare says: “The civilian population as such, as well as individual civilians, shall not be the object of attack.
"Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.”
It does state that those within an occupied country are legally allowed to bear arms and "exercise... their right of self-determination”.
It does not, however, support the killing of a resident of an occupying country in another country.
This was not the first time Francis has gone on an anti-Israel tirade. A year before October 7, in 2022, she said on Lebanese News channel OrangeTV, that she did not want Israel to exist.
“I want Israel's existence to come to an end,” she said. “When I sit in a coffee shop in Milan and there is an Egyptian, a Moroccan and an Iraqi there but when an Israeli walks in and hears me talking with a Lebanese accent, he trembles with fear.”
In the same broadcast, she accused Israel of committing a “Holocaust”.
