Since you brought it up...
The population of Gaza has been going up since 1948.
Before Hamas attacked, tens of thousands of Gazans had work permits in Israel, and many Gazans were treated in Israeli hospitals.
After Hamas started a war, Israel provided food, power, water, fuel, and medicine with intermittent interruptions. They had ceasefires to provide vaccines for children.
Israel warned civilians of imminent attacks, and generally gave them time to move. That rarely happens in a war, never mind a genocide.
It is absolutely true that tens of thousands of civilians were killed, although it is difficult to quantify because Hamas soldiers do not wear uniforms and has 100% of its military capabilities around and below hospitals, mosques, schools, and apartments. Also, Gazan authorities have never distinguished military and civilian casualties in their reporting. And despite having the world's largest bomb shelter, i.e. 500 km of tunnels, Hamas did not allow a single civilian into them during the war.
But stipulating tens of thousands of civilian deaths during an intense urban fighting, there is a name for that. The name for that is "war". Genocide is an entirely different phenomenon. You seem to conflate the two.
About my use of the word "genocide": genocide is defined not primarily by the scale of the killing, but most importantly by the intent behind it. The intent of the war on Gaza, as expressed repeatedly by the people prosecuting it, is to destroy the Palestinian people as a people. That's what makes it a genocide, not just the raw number of dead. https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/doc.1_convention_o...
(In the interest of keeping things on topic for HN, I won't respond to your other points)
After Hamas started a war, Israel provided food, power, water, fuel, and medicine with intermittent interruptions. They had ceasefires to provide vaccines for children. Israel warned civilians of imminent attacks, and generally gave them time to move. That rarely happens in a war, never mind a genocide.
It is absolutely true that tens of thousands of civilians were killed, although it is difficult to quantify because Hamas soldiers do not wear uniforms and has 100% of its military capabilities around and below hospitals, mosques, schools, and apartments. Also, Gazan authorities have never distinguished military and civilian casualties in their reporting. And despite having the world's largest bomb shelter, i.e. 500 km of tunnels, Hamas did not allow a single civilian into them during the war.
But stipulating tens of thousands of civilian deaths during an intense urban fighting, there is a name for that. The name for that is "war". Genocide is an entirely different phenomenon. You seem to conflate the two.