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by jameshilliard 11 days ago
> The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war.

What is happening is a war, there is no systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, there is an ongoing war against a terrorist group that has so far refused to disarm which deliberately uses its own civilian population as human shields.

> blockading

This is an act of war.

> destroying civilian infrastructure, destroying healthcare facilities

When civilian infrastructure is used for military purposes it can be targeted in a war per international law.

> causing mass forced displacement

Evacuating civilians from areas of high intensity combat is a good thing because it drastically reduces civilian casualties.

> United Nations special committee and commission of inquiry

The UN has long ago completely thrown away their credibility when it comes to anything related to Israel/Palestine.[0]

> International Association of Genocide Scholars

They have had some interesting members.[1]

> The Gaza genocide has not been recognised by Jameshilliard.

There obviously is no Gaza genocide, there is a war in Gaza however.

> at least 75,811 people have been reported killed

How many of those are combatants and how many were civilians?

> including 270 journalists and media workers, 120 academics, and over 560 humanitarian aid workers, including 391 employees of UNRWA.

How many of those were also employed by and/or worked with Hamas or other terrorist organizations? Part of the problem is that it's virtually impossible for these sort of workers to operate in Gaza without consent/coordination with groups like Hamas to various degrees.

Employees of UNRWA were directly involved in the Oct 7th attacks.[2] UNRWA is well known to have allowed Hamas and other terrorist groups to have positions at UNRWA schools.[3]

Journalists in Gaza have even held hostages.[4]

[0] https://unwatch.org/2025-unga-resolutions-on-israel-vs-rest-...

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250903112024/https://genocides...

[2] https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152841

[3] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/08/world/middleeast/hamas-un...

[4] https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/12/world/middleeast/israel-h...