[istjohn]

We have numerous first-hand reports from doctors of young children showing up at Gazan hospitals with gun shot injuries to the head. We have seen well-marked aid convoys blown up. Grutesque living skeleton children haunt our social media feeds. Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch declared a genocide over a year and a half ago. A reply to OP's question that doesn't engage with these realities is, at best, deeply unserious.

[ars]

> Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch declared a genocide over a year and a half ago

Isn't that the point? They declared a genocide before Israel had even seriously responded to the attack. (Year and a half ago is Dec 2023, the attempted genocide by Palestinians was Oct 7, 2023.)

[fahhem]

A genocide doesn't start after you kill X% of the population. It happens when you intend to, and boy do they look like they intended this all along

[mysterEFrank]

I believe Israel is committing war crimes but yours is the same argument that Israelis make. That genocide is about intent, which isn't there.

[istjohn]

If you read the section of South Africa's Application Instituting Proceedings in the International Court of Justice entitled Expressions of Genocidal Intent against the Palestinian People by Israeli State Officials and Others, you'll find a compelling case that genocidal intent was clearly expressed. There are over seven pages of quotes and citations of Israeli leaders expressing that intent.

The section begins halfway down page 59.

0. https://www.icj-cij.org/sites/default/files/case-related/192...

Edit: The application was submitted on December 28, 2023.

[lawlessone]

israels has been doing a slow genocide and kettling them since 48