[dlubarov]

1. There’s no quantifier for “civilians”, so this is just a vague statement that some number of civilians support Hamas.

2. There have been many sieges throughout history, surely they weren’t all genocides? It was also lifted shortly thereafter. Or are you interpreting “human animals” as all Gazans rather than Hamas/PIJ/etc? If so why?

3. This is problematic but still not genocidal, since Hamas supporters are not a group of the sort that genocide can apply to.

4. Context was removed to make it sound as if “they” might mean Gazans. The preceding sentence was “We will fight the terrorist organization Hamas and destroy it.”

5. Not involved in the military.

6. Not any sort of leader.

We do see explicitly genocidal rhetoric from leaders of Hamas and other enemies of Israel, though.

[xg15]

> It was also lifted shortly thereafter.

It was not "lifted shortly after". It was lifted after several weeks, when the Biden administration pressured the Israeli government into doing so.

[dlubarov]

It was Oct 9-21, so 12 days; I wouldn’t call that “several weeks”.

[xg15]

Ah, true.