It’s not a genocide, you know, that’s just not the case," he told reporters while asking: "And why is that news and her views on that right now?”

The Georgia Republican is the first in her caucus, which has generally rallied unconditionally around Israel, to use the word in reference to Gaza.

As Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene calls the situation in Gaza a "genocide," Republicans split over how to deal with starvation in the region