I don't know any degree that makes you genocide expert..but I agree some legal and historical experts have classified it as genocide. Any war will have civilian deaths... specially when civilians are targeted. But let's look at this conflict.
1. Hamas started it by killingn 1000s invading Israel and holding hundreds hostage. Tell me what Paksitan would have done so. You guys bomb Afghanistan for your own Pakistani terrorists and send your own to India to kill civilians.
2. Hamas hides in Gaza and holds civilians as shield and hides among children in schools and hospitals.
3. Israel asked all civilians to leave...tell me who is stopping them from leaving.
4. Israel allowed humanitarian aid..who is preventing the aid from reaching the needy.
Yes there are civilian deaths. That's unfortunate but the onus and responsibility for that is on Hamas because of the above four reasons. Any time a city is invaded there are massive civilian casualties during war...Stalingrad Berlin etc. what constitute genocide is what happened in nanjing Dhaka or the Jews in Nazi..or after war ..in a systemic targeting. I equate Israel's action with war time casualties. There is no systemic targeting after war. Hamas hides among civilians so there is collateral damage. Otherwise every war will be called genocide. Ofcourse if Israel attacks Gaza..most deaths will be Palestinian..same as Vietnam Korea etc... this is more akin to Vietnam war...than a genocide that happened in Dhaka or nanjing.
Not some but 80% of experts in genocide have classified it as genocide.
I don’t condone what Hamas did by targeting civilians but 1,000s were not killed. Use official numbers, which is approximately 1,200 of which civilians killed were around 850 with the rest being security forces, which were legitimate targets. What we don’t know is of these 850 civilians, how many were killed by the Palestinian militants/terrorists and how many by the IDF as per their Hannibal doctrine which was reported by both the Guardian and Haaretz.
I have answered your question on what Israel should have done in an earlier post. The seeds for this were sowed decades ago by Zionists.
The Palestinian situation is very different to the situation in Pakistan. Pakistan is the equivalent of Israel here where it has committed atrocities against Afghanis. The Palestinians are suffering day in day out and prior to Oct 7, just in 2023 alone, according to the UN, Israel killed approximately 500 civilians including children just in the West Bank alone where the IDF has control and Hamas does not rule. So I flip your question to you, what should the Palestinians do when they are being massacred? Do you still think Hamas started it when in 2023 alone the IDF was killing Palestinian civilians and the world did nothing?
As for the hostages, I said to you earlier in a post that if you kidnap my child and the world/authorities does nothing, I will kidnap your child to exchange for mine. That is exactly what Hamas did. Israel has been hosting Palestinian hostages for years and there are thousands of them with no charges presented. They are not allowed legal access and are not even allowed to see any evidence held against them or what the changes are. If they do go to court, they are presented in a military court not a civilian one. These hostages include children. Let that sink in, Israel is holding kids without charge and presenting them to a military court. I ask again, what democracy does that?
The charge of civilian shield is bullcrap. The Gaza strip is tiny so it’s difficult to have your organisation in a completely separate and isolated location. As for the claim Hamas operates out of hospital and schools, there is no evidence for this other than the IDF making this claim. Foreign doctors who have been working in Gaza over the last 2 years reject this claim. Why doesn’t Israel allow foreign journalists in to investigate all of this? If they have nothing to hide, surely foreign journalists can investigate and find out if the civilian shield claim is true or not.
Israel has been sniping kids in the head. If it’s just casualties of war, why are kids being sniped? Foreign doctors reported this. Also, why is AI being used to target civilians crossing invisible lines? Two boys, one who was 11 was just killed by a drone because they crossed an invisible line Israel did not want Palestinians to cross. How would an 11 year old know? They were collecting firewood. What about the ambulances that the IDF destroyed, killing everyone in and then literally burying it so no one would find out? The world only discovered it because it was caught on camera of one of the ambulance worker killed. How about the killing of Hind Rajab and many more massacres committed. They found mass graves dug by the IDF to bury civilians killed.
You talk about Israel allowing people to leave. lol. That’s because they will never be allowed back in. That’s how it’s always happened. Once you go, you are not allowed back in by the Israelis. Their whole purpose is to have the land but not the people because they need to accommodate more and more Jews making Aliyah every year from Europe. People who don’t belong in the land.
Lol at Israel allowing humanitarian aid in. You make me laugh. When the UN, US, British governments and the ICJ said the exact opposite because Israel was blocking aid into Gaza. They have been literally starving people and Israeli civilians have been blockading trucks going in. In fact the whole system to allow aid in is messed up where trucks cross into Rafah from Egypt, first have to drive miles to the next IDF checkpoint before going all the way back and then being allowed to enter Gaza and this was before Oct 7.
Seriously you are brain washed!