Vice President Kamala Harris's presidential campaign has made clear that she does not believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza after an incident at a rally suggested it was.

At a campaign event at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee on Saturday, Harris was interrupted by a protester who said she had invested “billions of dollars in genocide” and pressed her on the massive child casualties in Gaza, repeatedly describing the Israeli offensive as genocide.

Speaking to the students, Harris said, "What he's talking about is real. It's not the subject I came here to discuss today, but it's real, and I respect his voice."

A Harris campaign spokesperson said Sunday that the protester’s comments “do not reflect the position of the Biden-Harris administration or the position of the vice president.” The spokesperson added that Harris “does not agree with the definition of war as genocide, nor has she expressed such a position in the past, as that is not her position.”

The International Court of Justice has ruled that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian population of Gaza. There were massive civilian casualties in the attack, and Israeli forces deliberately targeted children.

A group of 99 American health care workers who volunteered in Gaza said in an open letter to Harris and President Biden that each of them “treated pre-teens who had been shot in the head or chest on a regular or even daily basis.” The American health care workers also estimated that more than 118,000 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, or about 5% of the population.

Despite the mass slaughter, the Biden administration insists that Israel is not committing genocide because that would mean that American officials support genocide. Harris also angered pro-Palestinian groups over the weekend when she discussed the situation in Gaza by describing Hamas’s October 7, 2023, attack on southern Israel as the “most tragic” part of the conflict.