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The [[Israel|State of Israel]] has been accused of [[genocide]] against [[Palestinians]] in the [[Gaza Strip]] during the [[2023 Israel–Hamas war|Israel–Hamas war]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-experts-call-international-community-prevent-genocide-against |title=Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=16 November 2023 |website=[[OHCHR]] |access-date=22 December 2023 |quote=Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of increasing genocidal incitement, overt intent to "destroy the Palestinian people under occupation", loud calls for a 'second Nakba' in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, and the use of powerful weaponry with inherently indiscriminate impacts, resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224050530/https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-experts-call-international-community-prevent-genocide-against |archive-date=24 December 2023}}</ref> |
The [[Israel|State of Israel]] has been accused of [[genocide]] against [[Palestinians]] in the [[Gaza Strip]] during the [[2023 Israel–Hamas war|Israel–Hamas war]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-experts-call-international-community-prevent-genocide-against |title=Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people |author=<!--Not stated--> |date=16 November 2023 |website=[[OHCHR]] |access-date=22 December 2023 |quote=Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of increasing genocidal incitement, overt intent to "destroy the Palestinian people under occupation", loud calls for a 'second Nakba' in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, and the use of powerful weaponry with inherently indiscriminate impacts, resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224050530/https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2023/11/gaza-un-experts-call-international-community-prevent-genocide-against |archive-date=24 December 2023}}</ref>{{sfn|Burga|2023}}<ref name="Corder" /> which began after the [[2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel|7 October attacks on Israel]].<ref name="AN-2023-10-08">{{cite news |title=Hamas leader Haniyeh: Battle 'will spread to West Bank, Jerusalem' |date=8 October 2023 |url=https://www.arabnews.com/node/2387276/middle-east |agency=[[Associated Press]] and [[Reuters]] |work=Arab News |quote="The leader of Hamas' military wing, Mohammed Deif, said Saturday's assault was in response to the 16-year blockade of Gaza, Israeli raids inside West Bank cities over the past year, violence at Al-Aqsa and increasing attacks by settlers on Palestinians, and growth of settlements." |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231018143356/https://www.arabnews.com/node/2387276/middle-east |archive-date=18 October 2023}}</ref><ref name="CBC-2023-10-07">{{cite news |title=Hundreds dead as war erupts after surprise Hamas attack catches Israel off guard |date=7 October 2023 |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-israel-rockets-attack-hamas-1.6990209 |agency=[[Associated Press]] |work=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110155357/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/gaza-israel-rockets-attack-hamas-1.6990209 |archive-date=10 January 2024}}</ref> Various scholars have cited statements by senior Israeli officials, which they argue demonstrate an "[[Genocidal intent|intent to destroy]]" the population of Gaza, a necessary condition for the legal threshold of genocide to be met.{{sfn|Burga|2023}}<ref name="StateCrime" /> |
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The government of [[South Africa]] has instituted [[South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention)|proceedings]] against Israel at the [[International Court of Justice]], alleging genocide.<ref name="ICJ-2023-12-29"/> In an interim ruling, the International Court of Justice found Israel was operating under plausible intent to commit genocide and ordered Israel to observe its obligations under the [[Genocide Convention]] by taking all measures within its power to prevent the commission of acts of genocide, to prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and to allow basic humanitarian services into Gaza.<ref name="ICJruling" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=Scott |last2=Peralta |first2=Eyder |date=27 January 2024 |title=ICJ finds genocide case against Israel 'plausible', orders it to stop violations |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227397107/icj-finds-genocide-case-against-israel-plausible-orders-it-to-stop-violations#:~:text=Live%20Sessions-,ICJ%20finds%20genocide%20case%20against%20Israel%20%27plausible%27%2C%20orders%20it,Africa%20has%20brought%20against%20Israel. |work=[[NPR]] |access-date=28 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128232512/https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227397107/icj-finds-genocide-case-against-israel-plausible-orders-it-to-stop-violations |archive-date=28 January 2024}}</ref> The Israeli government rejected the court's finding.<ref>{{cite news |title='Not only false, it's outrageous': Netanyahu rejects Gaza genocide charges |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/netanyahu-rejects-outrageous-icj-charges-of-gaza-genocide-203021381942 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=26 January 2024 |access-date=28 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130123637/https://www.nbcnews.com/video/netanyahu-rejects-outrageous-icj-charges-of-gaza-genocide-203021381942 |archive-date=30 January 2024}}</ref> |
The government of [[South Africa]] has instituted [[South Africa v. Israel (Genocide Convention)|proceedings]] against Israel at the [[International Court of Justice]], alleging genocide.<ref name="ICJ-2023-12-29"/> In an interim ruling, the International Court of Justice found Israel was operating under plausible intent to commit genocide and ordered Israel to observe its obligations under the [[Genocide Convention]] by taking all measures within its power to prevent the commission of acts of genocide, to prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and to allow basic humanitarian services into Gaza.<ref name="ICJruling" /><ref>{{cite news |last1=Simon |first1=Scott |last2=Peralta |first2=Eyder |date=27 January 2024 |title=ICJ finds genocide case against Israel 'plausible', orders it to stop violations |url=https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227397107/icj-finds-genocide-case-against-israel-plausible-orders-it-to-stop-violations#:~:text=Live%20Sessions-,ICJ%20finds%20genocide%20case%20against%20Israel%20%27plausible%27%2C%20orders%20it,Africa%20has%20brought%20against%20Israel. |work=[[NPR]] |access-date=28 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128232512/https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227397107/icj-finds-genocide-case-against-israel-plausible-orders-it-to-stop-violations |archive-date=28 January 2024}}</ref> The Israeli government rejected the court's finding.<ref>{{cite news |title='Not only false, it's outrageous': Netanyahu rejects Gaza genocide charges |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/video/netanyahu-rejects-outrageous-icj-charges-of-gaza-genocide-203021381942 |work=[[NBC News]] |date=26 January 2024 |access-date=28 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240130123637/https://www.nbcnews.com/video/netanyahu-rejects-outrageous-icj-charges-of-gaza-genocide-203021381942 |archive-date=30 January 2024}}</ref> |
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=== Legal definition of genocide === |
=== Legal definition of genocide === |
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The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".<ref name="Legal definition">{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Legal definition of genocide |url=https://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf |access-date=3 January 2024 |website=[[United Nations]] |publisher=Office of the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024940/https://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2023}}</ref><ref name="Genocide Prevention">{{cite web |title=United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect |url=https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml |access-date=3 January 2024 |website=[[United Nations]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201103920/https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml |archive-date=1 December 2023}}</ref> The acts in question include killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group.<ref name="Legal definition"/> Genocide is a crime of special intent ("''dolus specialis''"); it is carried out deliberately, with victims targeted based on real or perceived membership in a protected group.<ref name="Genocide Prevention"/> |
The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".<ref name="Legal definition">{{cite web |date=2014 |title=Legal definition of genocide |url=https://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf |access-date=3 January 2024 |website=[[United Nations]] |publisher=Office of the UN Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230927024940/https://www.un.org/ar/preventgenocide/adviser/pdf/osapg_analysis_framework.pdf |archive-date=27 September 2023}}</ref><ref name="Genocide Prevention">{{cite web |title=United Nations Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect |url=https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml |access-date=3 January 2024 |website=[[United Nations]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201103920/https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml |archive-date=1 December 2023}}</ref> The acts in question include killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group.<ref name="Legal definition"/> Genocide is a crime of special intent ("''dolus specialis''"); it is carried out deliberately, with victims targeted based on real or perceived membership in a protected group.<ref name="Genocide Prevention"/> |
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== Victims == |
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A Reliefweb report released November 18, 2023, which labels Israel's actions in Gaza as a genocide, reported that 15,271 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed, 32,310 Palestinians had been injured, and an estimated 41,500 were unaccounted for.<ref>{{cite web |title=Friday 17 November: Twenty thousand Palestinians believed to be killed in Israel's genocide of Gaza |author=Euro-Med Monitor |author-link=Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor |date=18 November 2023 |url=https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/friday-17-november-twenty-thousand-palestinians-believed-be-killed-israels-genocide-gaza-enar |website=Reliefweb |access-date=25 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231226003110/https://reliefweb.int/report/occupied-palestinian-territory/friday-17-november-twenty-thousand-palestinians-believed-be-killed-israels-genocide-gaza-enar |archive-date=26 December 2023}}</ref> Multiple news and academic outlets have subsequently reported on updated figures, with at least 20,000 Palestinians having been killed in [[Gaza Strip|Gaza]], an estimated 70% of whom were women and children.<ref>{{cite journal |first1=Alix |last1=Faddoul |first2=Geordan |last2=Shannon |first3=Khudejha |last3=Asghar |first4=Yamina |last4=Boukari |first5=James |last5=Smith |first6=Amy |last6=Neilson |title=The health dimensions of violence in Palestine: a call to prevent genocide |date=18 December 2023 |url=https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02751-4/fulltext |journal=[[The Lancet]] |volume=403 |issue=10421 |pages=25–26 |doi=10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02751-4 |pmid=38128558 |s2cid=266357297 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231221154829/https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(23)02751-4/fulltext |archive-date=21 December 2023}}</ref><ref>{{harvnb|Thomas|2023}}; {{harvnb|AP News|2023a}}; {{harvnb|Sawafta|Fick|2023}}; {{harvnb|Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor|2023}}; {{harvnb|Burga|2023}}</ref> Per the [[Gaza Health Ministry]] and Government Information Office by 3 January 2024, over 22,300 people had been confirmed dead.<ref name="cas1tmp4">{{cite news |title=Health Ministry In Hamas-run Gaza Says War Death Toll Hits 22,313 |url=https://www.barrons.com/news/health-ministry-in-hamas-run-gaza-says-war-death-toll-hits-22-313-584e999b?refsec=topics_afp-news |access-date=3 January 2024 |publisher=[[Barron's]] |date=3 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240103101715/https://www.barrons.com/news/health-ministry-in-hamas-run-gaza-says-war-death-toll-hits-22-313-584e999b?refsec=topics_afp-news |archive-date=3 January 2024}}</ref> About 7,000 people are missing, likely buried under the rubble.<ref>{{cite news |title=Deaths in Gaza surpass 14,000, according to its authorities |newspaper=[[The Economist]] |url=https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/11/23/deaths-in-gaza-surpass-14000-according-to-its-authorities |access-date=28 November 2023 |issn=0013-0613 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231201143821/https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2023/11/23/deaths-in-gaza-surpass-14000-according-to-its-authorities |archive-date=1 December 2023}}</ref> Over 52,000 have been wounded.{{sfn|Thomas|2023}}{{sfn|AP News|2023a}} |
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Since the beginning of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, nearly 2 million people have been displaced within the Gaza Strip.<ref name="HRW-Starvation"/><ref name="Gdn191223">{{cite news |first1=Emma |last1=Graham-Harrison |first2=Julian |last2=Borger |date=19 December 2023 |title=Palestinian death toll in Gaza nears 20,000 with nearly 2 million people displaced |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/19/palestinian-casualties-in-gaza-near-20000-with-nearly-2m-people-displaced |work=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=25 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224201330/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/19/palestinian-casualties-in-gaza-near-20000-with-nearly-2m-people-displaced |archive-date=24 December 2023}}</ref>{{sfn|El-Affendi|2024|p=6}} |
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== Alleged genocidal intent == |
== Alleged genocidal intent == |
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=== Israeli cabinet ministers === |
=== Israeli cabinet ministers === |
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Since 7 October 2023 a variety of official and semi-official sources and outlets have engaged in rhetoric suggestive of genocidal intent.{{sfn|El-Affendi|2024|p=6}} |
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⚫ | Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s repeated invocation of "[[Amalek]]" during the war has been considered evidence of genocidal intent by many critics,<ref name="jones"/><ref name="mj"/><ref name="bartov">{{cite news |last=Bartov |first=Omer |date=10 November 2023 |title=Opinion {{!}} What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |access-date=16 December 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231218055737/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |archive-date=18 December 2023}}</ref> including South Africa.<ref name="mj"/> In a speech on 28 October 2023, Netanyahu said "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible," quoting from [[Deuteronomy]] 25:17 in the [[Hebrew Bible]].<ref name="isrgovtrsp">{{cite speech |title=Statement by PM Netanyahu |last=Netanyahu |first=Benjamin |author-link=Benjamin Netanyahu |date=28 October 2023 |url=https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/statement-by-pm-netanyahu-28-oct-2023 |access-date=9 February 2024 |location=Jerusalem |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103014944/https:/www.gov.il/en/departments/news/statement-by-pm-netanyahu-28-oct-2023 |archive-date=3 November 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{efn|"Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget." (''Deuteronomy 25:17–19'', [[Jewish Publication Society of America Version]]'')}} The phrase "Remember what Amalek did to you"{{efn|{{lang-he|זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק}}}} is used in Holocaust memorials, including [[Yad Vashem]] and the Hague Jewish Monument.<ref name="yrosenberg">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/israel-south-africa-genocide-case-fake-quotes/677198/ |title=What Did Top Israel War Officials Really Say About Gaza? |last=Rosenberg |first=Yair |author-link=Yair Rosenburg |date=21 January 2024 |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205221304/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/israel-south-africa-genocide-case-fake-quotes/677198/ |archive-date=5 February 2024}}</ref> Netanyahu later made another allusion to the verse in a letter to IDF soldiers and officers.<ref name="jones">{{cite news |first=Owen |last=Jones |author-link=Owen Jones |date=13 January 2024 |title=The brutality and inhumanity of Israel's assault on Gaza is no surprise. It's just what was promised |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/13/israel-hamas-gaza-war-crimes |work=[[The Guardian]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122060757/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/13/israel-hamas-gaza-war-crimes |archive-date=22 January 2024}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s repeated invocation of "[[Amalek]]" during the war has been considered evidence of genocidal intent by many critics,<ref name="jones"/><ref name="mj"/><ref name="bartov">{{cite news |last=Bartov |first=Omer |date=10 November 2023 |title=Opinion {{!}} What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide |language=en-US |work=[[The New York Times]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |access-date=16 December 2023 |issn=0362-4331 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231218055737/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |archive-date=18 December 2023}}</ref> including South Africa.<ref name="mj"/> In a speech on 28 October 2023, Netanyahu said "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible," quoting from [[Deuteronomy]] 25:17 in the [[Hebrew Bible]].<ref name="isrgovtrsp">{{cite speech |title=Statement by PM Netanyahu |last=Netanyahu |first=Benjamin |author-link=Benjamin Netanyahu |date=28 October 2023 |url=https://www.gov.il/en/departments/news/statement-by-pm-netanyahu-28-oct-2023 |access-date=9 February 2024 |location=Jerusalem |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103014944/https:/www.gov.il/en/departments/news/statement-by-pm-netanyahu-28-oct-2023 |archive-date=3 November 2023 |url-status=live}}</ref>{{sfn|El-Affendi|2024|p=2}}{{efn|"Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget." (''Deuteronomy 25:17–19'', [[Jewish Publication Society of America Version]]'')}} The phrase "Remember what Amalek did to you"{{efn|{{lang-he|זכור את אשר עשה לך עמלק}}}} is used in Holocaust memorials, including [[Yad Vashem]] and the Hague Jewish Monument.<ref name="yrosenberg">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/israel-south-africa-genocide-case-fake-quotes/677198/ |title=What Did Top Israel War Officials Really Say About Gaza? |last=Rosenberg |first=Yair |author-link=Yair Rosenburg |date=21 January 2024 |magazine=[[The Atlantic]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240205221304/https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2024/01/israel-south-africa-genocide-case-fake-quotes/677198/ |archive-date=5 February 2024}}</ref> Netanyahu later made another allusion to the verse in a letter to IDF soldiers and officers.<ref name="jones">{{cite news |first=Owen |last=Jones |author-link=Owen Jones |date=13 January 2024 |title=The brutality and inhumanity of Israel's assault on Gaza is no surprise. It's just what was promised |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/13/israel-hamas-gaza-war-crimes |work=[[The Guardian]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122060757/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/jan/13/israel-hamas-gaza-war-crimes |archive-date=22 January 2024}}</ref> |
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Critics have connected Netanyahu's allusion to Amalek with [[1 Samuel]] 15:3: "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."{{efn|The [[Jewish Publication Society of America Version]] and [[King James Version]] give an identical translation for this verse.}} Noah Lanard of ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' describes verses discussing Amalek as among the most violent in the Bible and that they have a long history of being used by Jews on the far-right, such as [[Baruch Goldstein]], to justify killing Palestinians.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lanard |first=Noah |title=The dangerous history behind Netanyahu's Amalek rhetoric |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/ |date=3 November 2023 |access-date=6 November 2023 |website=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124213319/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/ |archive-date=24 November 2023}}</ref> Amalek was "the foe that God ordered the ancient Israelites to genocide",<ref name="HTTAOG"/> and scholars have described the verse as an instance of 'divinely mandated genocide'.<ref name="McGreal 2023">{{cite news |last=McGreal |first=Chris |author-link=Chris McGreal |date=13 November 2023 |title=US rights group sues Biden for alleged 'failure to prevent genocide' in Gaza |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/biden-lawsuit-alleged-failure-prevent-genocide-israel-palestine |access-date=14 November 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121091027/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/biden-lawsuit-alleged-failure-prevent-genocide-israel-palestine |archive-date=21 November 2023}}</ref> However, [[Yair Rosenberg]] of ''[[The Atlantic]]'' argues that the verse from Deuteronomy which Netanyahu cites refers to the need to remember an attack against the Jewish people and that connecting Netanyahu's remarks to Samuel is inaccurate, comparing the interpretation to tying the term ''[[jihad]]'' exclusively with [[Islamic terrorism]].<ref name="yrosenberg"/><ref name="mj">{{cite news |title=As It Formally Accuses Israel of Genocide, South Africa Condemns Netanyahu's Amalek Reference |date=11 January 2024 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/south-africa-israel-amalek-netanyahu/ |publisher=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122223526/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/south-africa-israel-amalek-netanyahu/ |archive-date=22 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="bartov"/> In addition to this, on October 7, Netanyahu said the people of Gaza would pay a "huge price", and Israel would turn parts of Gaza "into rubble".<ref name="bartov"/> |
Critics have connected Netanyahu's allusion to Amalek with [[1 Samuel]] 15:3: "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."{{efn|The [[Jewish Publication Society of America Version]] and [[King James Version]] give an identical translation for this verse.}} Noah Lanard of ''[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]]'' describes verses discussing Amalek as among the most violent in the Bible and that they have a long history of being used by Jews on the far-right, such as [[Baruch Goldstein]], to justify killing Palestinians.<ref>{{cite web |last=Lanard |first=Noah |title=The dangerous history behind Netanyahu's Amalek rhetoric |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/ |date=3 November 2023 |access-date=6 November 2023 |website=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124213319/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/11/benjamin-netanyahu-amalek-israel-palestine-gaza-saul-samuel-old-testament/ |archive-date=24 November 2023}}</ref> Amalek was "the foe that God ordered the ancient Israelites to genocide",<ref name="HTTAOG"/> and scholars have described the verse as an instance of 'divinely mandated genocide'.<ref name="McGreal 2023">{{cite news |last=McGreal |first=Chris |author-link=Chris McGreal |date=13 November 2023 |title=US rights group sues Biden for alleged 'failure to prevent genocide' in Gaza |language=en-GB |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/biden-lawsuit-alleged-failure-prevent-genocide-israel-palestine |access-date=14 November 2023 |issn=0261-3077 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231121091027/https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/nov/13/biden-lawsuit-alleged-failure-prevent-genocide-israel-palestine |archive-date=21 November 2023}}</ref> However, [[Yair Rosenberg]] of ''[[The Atlantic]]'' argues that the verse from Deuteronomy which Netanyahu cites refers to the need to remember an attack against the Jewish people and that connecting Netanyahu's remarks to Samuel is inaccurate, comparing the interpretation to tying the term ''[[jihad]]'' exclusively with [[Islamic terrorism]].<ref name="yrosenberg"/><ref name="mj">{{cite news |title=As It Formally Accuses Israel of Genocide, South Africa Condemns Netanyahu's Amalek Reference |date=11 January 2024 |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/south-africa-israel-amalek-netanyahu/ |publisher=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240122223526/https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/01/south-africa-israel-amalek-netanyahu/ |archive-date=22 January 2024}}</ref><ref name="bartov"/> In addition to this, on October 7, Netanyahu said the people of Gaza would pay a "huge price", and Israel would turn parts of Gaza "into rubble".<ref name="bartov"/> |
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[[President of Israel]] [[Isaac Herzog]] blamed the "entire nation" of Palestine for the 7 October attack. |
[[President of Israel]] [[Isaac Herzog]] blamed the "entire nation" of Palestine for the 7 October attack.{{sfn|Burga|2023}} He further said "It is not true this rhetoric about civilians being not aware, not involved. It is absolutely not true."<ref name="oj"/> |
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[[Yitzhak Kroizer]], representing the extreme-right [[Otzma Yehudit]] party in the Knesset, stated in a radio interview that the "Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death."<ref name="Graham-Harrison & Kierszenbaum"/> [[Tally Gotliv]] of the Likud party called for the use of nuclear weapons against Gaza.<ref name="Graham-Harrison & Kierszenbaum">{{Cite news |last1=Graham-Harrison |first1=Emma |last2=Kierszenbaum |first2=Quique |date=3 January 2024 |title=Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/israeli-public-figures-accuse-judiciary-of-ignoring-incitement-to-genocide-in-gaza |access-date=6 January 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128043046/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/israeli-public-figures-accuse-judiciary-of-ignoring-incitement-to-genocide-in-gaza |archive-date=28 January 2024}}</ref> |
[[Yitzhak Kroizer]], representing the extreme-right [[Otzma Yehudit]] party in the Knesset, stated in a radio interview that the "Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death."<ref name="Graham-Harrison & Kierszenbaum"/> [[Tally Gotliv]] of the Likud party called for the use of nuclear weapons against Gaza.<ref name="Graham-Harrison & Kierszenbaum">{{Cite news |last1=Graham-Harrison |first1=Emma |last2=Kierszenbaum |first2=Quique |date=3 January 2024 |title=Israeli public figures accuse judiciary of ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/israeli-public-figures-accuse-judiciary-of-ignoring-incitement-to-genocide-in-gaza |access-date=6 January 2024 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240128043046/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/03/israeli-public-figures-accuse-judiciary-of-ignoring-incitement-to-genocide-in-gaza |archive-date=28 January 2024}}</ref> |
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There is currently disagreement among scholars as to whether Israel's actions can be described as a genocide against the Palestinians. |
There is currently disagreement among scholars as to whether Israel's actions can be described as a genocide against the Palestinians.{{sfn|Burga|2023}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Komnenic |first1=Ana |date=2 December 2023 |title=Experts, advocates deeply divided on question of 'genocide' in Gaza |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/genocide-gaza-debate-1.7042809 |publisher=[[Canadian Broadcasting Corporation|CBC]] |access-date=31 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240114210741/https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/genocide-gaza-debate-1.7042809 |archive-date=14 January 2024}}</ref> |
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On 13 October, Israeli historian [[Raz Segal]] described the imposed [[October 2023 Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip|blockade of Gaza]], which included the denial of water and food to the civilian population, as a "textbook case of genocide" and connected it to the [[Nakba]], the expulsion of Palestinians during the establishment of Israel in 1948.{{sfn|Segal|2023}} With other academics also detailing Israel's attacks on infrastructure, food, and water as being genocidal in nature,{{sfn|Semerdjian|2024|p=3}}{{sfn|Samudzi|2024|pp=6–7}}<ref name="Stacey"/> |
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⚫ | Ernesto Verdeja, a professor at the [[University of Notre Dame]], told ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' on 14 November, that Israel's actions in Gaza were gravitating towards a "genocidal campaign", noting that "the response when you have a security crisis…can be one of ceasefire, negotiation, or it can be genocide." |
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On 19 October 2023, 100 civil society organizations and six genocide scholars sent a letter to [[Karim Ahmad Khan|Karim Khan]], Prosecutor of the [[International Criminal Court]], calling on him to issue arrest warrants to Israeli officials for cases already before the prosecutor; to investigate the new crimes committed in the [[Palestinian territories]], including [[incitement to genocide]], since 7 October; to issue a preventative statement against war crimes; and to remind all states of their obligations under international law. The letter noted that Israeli officials, in their statements, had indicated "clear intent to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and incitement to commit genocide, using dehumanizing language to describe Palestinians." The six specialist genocide scholars that signed the document were |
On 19 October 2023, 100 civil society organizations and six genocide scholars sent a letter to [[Karim Ahmad Khan|Karim Khan]], Prosecutor of the [[International Criminal Court]], calling on him to issue arrest warrants to Israeli officials for cases already before the prosecutor; to investigate the new crimes committed in the [[Palestinian territories]], including [[incitement to genocide]], since 7 October; to issue a preventative statement against war crimes; and to remind all states of their obligations under international law. The letter noted that Israeli officials, in their statements, had indicated "clear intent to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and incitement to commit genocide, using dehumanizing language to describe Palestinians." The six specialist genocide scholars that signed the document were Raz Segal, [[Barry Trachtenberg]], Robert McNeil, [[Damien Short]], [[Taner Akçam]] and Victoria Sanford.<ref name="sccoip"> |
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* {{cite news |date=21 October 2023 |title=Scholars, civil society call on ICC Prosecutor to issue arrest warrants, investigate Israeli crimes in Gaza |publisher=WAFA |url=https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/138509 |access-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026192122/https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/138509 |archive-date=26 October 2023}} |
* {{cite news |date=21 October 2023 |title=Scholars, civil society call on ICC Prosecutor to issue arrest warrants, investigate Israeli crimes in Gaza |publisher=WAFA |url=https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/138509 |access-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026192122/https://english.wafa.ps/Pages/Details/138509 |archive-date=26 October 2023}} |
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* {{cite web |title=Urgent: Issue Arrest Warrants, Investigate Israeli Crimes and Intervene to Deter Incitement to Commit Genocide in Gaza |url=https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/icc-letter-1697782247-pdf.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031174452/https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/icc-letter-1697782247-pdf.pdf |archive-date=31 October 2023}} |
* {{cite web |title=Urgent: Issue Arrest Warrants, Investigate Israeli Crimes and Intervene to Deter Incitement to Commit Genocide in Gaza |url=https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/icc-letter-1697782247-pdf.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031174452/https://www.addameer.org/sites/default/files/icc-letter-1697782247-pdf.pdf |archive-date=31 October 2023}} |
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* {{cite web |date=20 October 2023 |title=Reprint of the full letter and signatories |url=https://www.addameer.org/news/5172 |website=[[Addameer]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103181141/https://www.addameer.org/news/5172 |archive-date=3 November 2023}} |
* {{cite web |date=20 October 2023 |title=Reprint of the full letter and signatories |url=https://www.addameer.org/news/5172 |website=[[Addameer]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103181141/https://www.addameer.org/news/5172 |archive-date=3 November 2023}} |
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* {{cite web |title=Reprint of the full letter and signatories |url=https://www.mezan.org/public/en/post/46295 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026192122/https://www.mezan.org/public/en/post/46295 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |website=[[Al Mezan Center for Human Rights]]}}</ref> Segal called the war a "textbook case of genocide." |
* {{cite web |title=Reprint of the full letter and signatories |url=https://www.mezan.org/public/en/post/46295 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231026192122/https://www.mezan.org/public/en/post/46295 |archive-date=26 October 2023 |website=[[Al Mezan Center for Human Rights]]}}</ref> Segal called the war a "textbook case of genocide."{{sfn|Segal|2023}}{{sfn|Burga|2023}} The same day, lawyers at the [[Center for Constitutional Rights]] stated that Israel's tactics were "calculated to destroy the Palestinian population in Gaza", and warned the Biden administration that "U.S. officials can be held responsible for their failure to prevent Israel’s unfolding genocide, as well as for their complicity, by encouraging it and materially supporting it."<ref name="Intercept">{{cite news |last=Speri |first=Alice |date=19 October 2023 |title=Going All-In for Israel May Make Biden Complicit in Genocide |work=[[The Intercept]] |url=https://theintercept.com/2023/10/19/israel-gaza-biden-genocide-war-crimes/ |access-date=23 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116013559/https://theintercept.com/2023/10/19/israel-gaza-biden-genocide-war-crimes/ |archive-date=16 November 2023}}</ref> |
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On 9 November 2023, 47 scholars in the fields of history, law, and criminology published an open letter describing Israel's Gaza offensive as genocide.<ref name="StateCrime">{{cite web |publisher=[[International State Crime Initiative]] |title=International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime |website=statecrime.org |url=http://statecrime.org/international-expert-statement-on-israeli-state-crime |access-date=4 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106140101/http://statecrime.org/international-expert-statement-on-israeli-state-crime |archive-date=6 January 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> Published by the [[International State Crime Initiative]] based at [[Queen Mary University of London]], the scholars wrote that "the Israeli state is employing its extensive and advanced military capacity to inflict violence on Palestinian peoples on such a scale that it is accurate to frame it as the annihilation phase of genocide."<ref name="StateCrime"/> A number of prominent Israelis, represented by human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, sent an 11-page open letter to Israel's attorney general and state prosecutor, detailing examples of "the discourse of annihilation, expulsion and revenge".<ref name="Graham-Harrison & Kierszenbaum"/> The signatories alleged that the Israeli judiciary was ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza.<ref name="Graham-Harrison & Kierszenbaum"/> On 10 November 2023, Israeli Holocaust scholar [[Omer Bartov]] stated in a ''New York Times'' opinion piece: "My greatest concern watching the Israel-Gaza war unfold is that there is genocidal intent, which can easily tip into genocidal action."<ref>{{cite news |last=Bartov |first=Omer |date=10 November 2023 |title=What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=8 January 2024 |archive-date=18 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231218055737/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |url-status=live}}</ref> |
On 9 November 2023, 47 scholars in the fields of history, law, and criminology published an open letter describing Israel's Gaza offensive as genocide.<ref name="StateCrime">{{cite web |publisher=[[International State Crime Initiative]] |title=International Expert Statement on Israeli State Crime |website=statecrime.org |url=http://statecrime.org/international-expert-statement-on-israeli-state-crime |access-date=4 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106140101/http://statecrime.org/international-expert-statement-on-israeli-state-crime |archive-date=6 January 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref> Published by the [[International State Crime Initiative]] based at [[Queen Mary University of London]], the scholars wrote that "the Israeli state is employing its extensive and advanced military capacity to inflict violence on Palestinian peoples on such a scale that it is accurate to frame it as the annihilation phase of genocide."<ref name="StateCrime"/> A number of prominent Israelis, represented by human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, sent an 11-page open letter to Israel's attorney general and state prosecutor, detailing examples of "the discourse of annihilation, expulsion and revenge".<ref name="Graham-Harrison & Kierszenbaum"/> The signatories alleged that the Israeli judiciary was ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza.<ref name="Graham-Harrison & Kierszenbaum"/> On 10 November 2023, Israeli Holocaust scholar [[Omer Bartov]] stated in a ''New York Times'' opinion piece: "My greatest concern watching the Israel-Gaza war unfold is that there is genocidal intent, which can easily tip into genocidal action."<ref>{{cite news |last=Bartov |first=Omer |date=10 November 2023 |title=What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=8 January 2024 |archive-date=18 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231218055737/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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On 13 November 2023, David Simon, director for genocide studies at [[Yale University]], stated that it was possible that a court could find the [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] guilty of committing an act of genocide, but added that "it's certainly not textbook in that connecting the intent to destroy ethnic group as such is difficult." |
On 13 November 2023, David Simon, director for genocide studies at [[Yale University]], stated that it was possible that a court could find the [[Israel Defense Forces|IDF]] guilty of committing an act of genocide, but added that "it's certainly not textbook in that connecting the intent to destroy ethnic group as such is difficult."{{sfn|Burga|2023}} Yale's [[Ben Kiernan]] opined that events did "not meet the very high threshold that is required to meet the legal definition of genocide."{{sfn|Burga|2023}} [[Adam Jones (Canadian scholar)|Adam Jones]], author of a textbook on genocide, took the view that beyond killing civilians ''en masse'', Israel appeared to be inflicting "conditions of life calculated to bring about [the targeted group’s] physical destruction," thus violating the Genocide Convention; other scholars such as [[Dov Waxman]] said that while there was a "risk of genocidal actions" in Gaza, claims it was already happening were "stretching the concept too far, emptying it of any meaning."<ref>{{cite web |last=Narea |first=Nicole |date=13 November 2023 |title=How to think through allegations of genocide in Gaza |url=https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/13/23954731/genocide-israel-gaza-palestine |access-date=8 January 2024 |website=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |language=en |archive-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124174721/https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/13/23954731/genocide-israel-gaza-palestine |url-status=live}}</ref> [[Martin Shaw (sociologist)|Martin Shaw]] on the other hand argued that the term "genocide" was under-deployed as states wished "to avoid the responsibilities to 'prevent and punish'" imposed by the convention; moreover, he argued, there was "a special aversion to investigating its implications for Israel’s conduct. Western states continue to protect it out of a misplaced belief that Jews, having been prime historical victims of genocide, cannot also be its perpetrators."<ref>{{cite web |last=Shaw |first=Martin |date=6 November 2023 |title=The Uses and Abuses of the Term 'Genocide' in Gaza |url=https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-uses-and-abuses-of-the-term-genocide-in-gaza/ |access-date=8 January 2024 |website=New Lines Magazine |language=en |archive-date=11 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111202239/https://newlinesmag.com/spotlight/the-uses-and-abuses-of-the-term-genocide-in-gaza/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=14 November 2023 |title=More than Genocide |language=en |url=https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/more-than-genocide/ |access-date=8 January 2024 |website=Boston Review |archive-date=6 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240106103911/https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/more-than-genocide |url-status=live}}</ref> |
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⚫ | Ernesto Verdeja, a professor at the [[University of Notre Dame]], told ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' on 14 November, that Israel's actions in Gaza were gravitating towards a "genocidal campaign", noting that "the response when you have a security crisis…can be one of ceasefire, negotiation, or it can be genocide."{{sfn|Burga|2023}} Victoria Sanford, professor of [[City University of New York]], compared events in Gaza to the 1960–1996 killing and disappearance of 200,000 Mayans in [[Guatemala]], today known as the [[Guatemalan genocide]].{{sfn|Burga|2023}} [[Norman Finkelstein]] has argued that Israeli Prime Minister [[Benjamin Netanyahu]]'s description of the Palestinians as "[[Amalek]]" was a call for genocide;<ref>{{Cite news |last=Hains |first=Tim |date=15 December 2023 |title=Norman Finkelstein vs. Alan Dershowitz: When Netanyahu Calls Palestinians "Amalek," He Is Calling For Genocide |url=https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/12/15/normal_finkelstein_vs_alan_dershowitz_when_netanyahu_calls_palestinians_amalek_he_is_calling_for_genocide.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231229204315/https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/12/15/normal_finkelstein_vs_alan_dershowitz_when_netanyahu_calls_palestinians_amalek_he_is_calling_for_genocide.html |archive-date=29 December 2023}}</ref> he accused Israel of engaging in a "genocidal war".<ref>{{cite web |date=19 December 2023 |title=Dershowitz and Finkelstein Rekindle Decades-Old Debate on Israel-Palestine Conflict - GV Wire - Explore. Explain. Expose |url=https://gvwire.com/2023/12/19/dershowitz-and-finkelstein-rekindle-decades-old-debate-on-israel-palestine-conflict/ |access-date=29 December 2023 |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240127095745/https://gvwire.com/2023/12/19/dershowitz-and-finkelstein-rekindle-decades-old-debate-on-israel-palestine-conflict/ |archive-date=27 January 2024}}</ref> On 15 October, [[Third World approaches to international law|TWAILR]] published a statement signed by over 800 legal scholars expressing "alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip" and calling on UN bodies, including the [[UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect]], as well as the [[Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court]] to "immediately intervene, to carry out the necessary investigations, and invoke the necessary warning procedures to protect the Palestinian population from genocide."<ref>{{Cite web |date=17 October 2023 |title=Public Statement: Scholars Warn of Potential Genocide in Gaza |url=https://twailr.com/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potential-genocide-in-gaza/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123124815/https://twailr.com/public-statement-scholars-warn-of-potential-genocide-in-gaza/ |archive-date=23 November 2023 |work=[[Third World Approaches to International Law Review]]}}</ref><ref name="HTTAOG">{{cite news |last1=Narea |first1=Nicole |last2=Samuel |first2=Sigal |date=13 November 2023 |title=How to think through allegations of genocide in Gaza |work=[[Vox (website)|Vox]] |url=https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/13/23954731/genocide-israel-gaza-palestine |access-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231124174721/https://www.vox.com/world-politics/2023/11/13/23954731/genocide-israel-gaza-palestine |archive-date=24 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="800ls">{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=Jake |date=18 October 2023 |title=800+ Legal Scholars Say Israel May Be Perpetrating 'Crime of Genocide' in Gaza |work=[[Common Dreams]] |url=https://www.commondreams.org/news/legal-scholars-israel-genocide |access-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231122173930/https://www.commondreams.org/news/legal-scholars-israel-genocide |archive-date=22 November 2023}}</ref> |
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== Statements by political organizations and governments == |
== Statements by political organizations and governments == |
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In late 2023, various global leaders and officials voiced their perspectives on the Israel-Gaza conflict, with many labeling Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide." Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,<ref>{{cite news |date=13 October 2023 |url=https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/4602621-iran-accuses-israel-‘genocide’-against-palestinians-gaza |title=Iran Accuses Israel of 'Genocide' Against the Palestinians in Gaza |publisher=Asharq Al-Awsat |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031095402/https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/4602621-iran-accuses-israel-%E2%80%98genocide%E2%80%99-against-palestinians-gaza |archive-date=31 October 2023}}</ref> Pakistani Foreign Minister [[Jalil Abbas Jilani]],<ref>{{cite news |title=FM Jilani equates Israeli strikes, blockade of Gaza to genocide against Palestinians |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1781220/fm-jilani-equates-israeli-strikes-blockade-of-gaza-to-genocide-against-palestinians |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024004155/https://www.dawn.com/news/1781220/fm-jilani-equates-israeli-strikes-blockade-of-gaza-to-genocide-against-palestinians |archive-date=24 October 2023 |publisher=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]}}</ref> the [[Taliban]],<ref>{{cite web |date=18 October 2023 |title=The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan condemns in the strongest terms the bombardment of the Al-Mamadani Hospital in Gaza by the Zionist forces and deems this act barbaric and a crime against humanity. |url=https://mfa.gov.af/en/the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-islamic-emirate-of-afghanistan-condemns-in-the-strongest-terms-the-bombardment-of-the-al-mamadani-hospital-in-gaza-by-the-zionist-forces-and-deems-this-act-barba/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Afghanistan)]] |language=en-US |quote=We stand in solidarity with the Palestinians, and with countries and organizations calling for the immediate end of the ongoing genocide and bringing its perpetrators to justice.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117192320/https://mfa.gov.af/en/the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-islamic-emirate-of-afghanistan-condemns-in-the-strongest-terms-the-bombardment-of-the-al-mamadani-hospital-in-gaza-by-the-zionist-forces-and-deems-this-act-barba/ |archive-date=17 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=Vasu |last=Sharma |date=14 November 2023 |title=Decoding Pakistan and Afghanistan's Public Responses to the Israel-Hamas War |url=https://www.stimson.org/2023/decoding-pakistan-and-afghanistans-public-responses-to-the-israel-hamas-war/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=[[Stimson Center]] |language=en-US |quote=The Taliban’s response to the current conflict is entirely in support of the Palestinians and calls out Israeli aggression for violating their rights and the sanctity of Al-Aqsa and other mosques in Palestine. In a series of tweets, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred to Israel’s bombardment as a "genocide." |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117192321/https://www.stimson.org/2023/decoding-pakistan-and-afghanistans-public-responses-to-the-israel-hamas-war/ |archive-date=17 January 2024}}</ref> Palestinian President [[Mahmoud Abbas]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mohamed |first1=Edna |last2=Najjar |first2=Farah |last3=Stepansky |first3=Joseph |title=Abbas: Israel's war on Gaza is 'genocide' |url=https://aje.io/rpfpqc?update=2488711 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116004227/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/15/israel-hamas-war-live-israel-says-it-plans-to-raid-al-shifa-ministry?update=2488711 |archive-date=16 November 2023 |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref> Venezuelan President [[Nicolás Maduro]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.mehrnews.com/news/206973/Israel-committing-genocide-against-Palestinian-people |title=Israel committing 'genocide' against Palestinian people |website=[[Mehr News Agency|Mehr News]] |date=10 October 2023 |access-date=12 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016175619/https://en.mehrnews.com/news/206973/Israel-committing-genocide-against-Palestinian-people |archive-date=16 October 2023}}</ref> and the [[Kurdistan Communities Union]] were among those who condemned Israel's actions.<ref>{{cite web |date=18 October 2023 |title=KCK: Attacks on the Palestinian people must stop |url=https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/kck-attacks-on-the-palestinian-people-must-stop-69877 |access-date=6 February 2024 |website=[[Firat News Agency]] |language=en |quote=Last night, the Israeli state launched an airstrike on a hospital in Gaza and unfortunately hundreds of people lost their lives in this attack. This attack is an attack of massacre and genocide.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206185701/https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/kck-attacks-on-the-palestinian-people-must-stop-69877 |archive-date=6 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=5 November 2023 |title=Kalkan: We defend the just cause of the Palestinian people until the end |url=https://anfenglish.com/features/kalkan-we-defend-the-just-cause-of-the-palestinian-people-until-the-end-70128 |access-date=6 February 2024 |website=[[Firat News Agency]] |language=en |quote=Some time ago, Armenians in Karabakh were facing genocide. People were suffering. Now the same situation is happening in Gaza. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206185914/https://anfenglish.com/features/kalkan-we-defend-the-just-cause-of-the-palestinian-people-until-the-end-70128 |archive-date=6 February 2024}}</ref>{{efn|The Kurdistan Communities Union chair [[Cemîl Bayik]] urged Israel to change its approach.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cemil Bayik - Co-Chair of the KCK Executive Council |date=21 November 2023 |url=https://kck-info.com/interview-bayik-nov2123/ |website=[[Kurdistan Communities Union]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231225193155/https://kck-info.com/interview-bayik-nov2123/ |archive-date=25 December 2023 |quote=Israeli state and government have to immediately change their current approach and stop their attacks. They must abandon their policies of war, genocide and massacre.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bayik: Kurdish, Palestinian questions are the biggest issues and democratic dynamics in Middle East |url=https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/bayik-kurdish-and-palestinian-are-the-biggest-issues-and-democratic-dynamics-in-middle-east-70418 |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=[[Firat News Agency]] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224195002/https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/bayik-kurdish-and-palestinian-are-the-biggest-issues-and-democratic-dynamics-in-middle-east-70418 |archive-date=24 December 2023 |quote=Palestinian people have been resisting occupation and genocide for decades, struggling for freedom and liberation.}}</ref>}} [[Palestinian-American]] U.S. Congresswoman [[Rashida Tlaib]] accused President Biden of supporting this "genocide,"<ref name="droib">{{cite news |first=Karoun |last=Demirjian |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/politics/democrats-israel-gaza.html |title=Democratic Rifts Over Israel Burst to the Forefront in Congress |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=30 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108195142/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/politics/democrats-israel-gaza.html |archive-date=8 November 2023}}</ref> leading to a resolution for censure against her by the Republican caucus, sponsored by [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]].<ref name="droib"/> On 4 November, Tlaib released a video in which she directly accused [[President Biden]] of supporting "the genocide of the Palestinian people".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us-representative-tlaib-accuses-biden-supporting-genocide-against-palestinians-2023-11-04/ |title=US Representative Tlaib accuses Biden of supporting genocide against Palestinians |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=4 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126213309/http://www.reuters.com/world/us-representative-tlaib-accuses-biden-supporting-genocide-against-palestinians-2023-11-04/ |archive-date=26 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="HTTAOG"/> [[Craig Mokhiber]] from the [[UN High Commissioner for Human Rights]] resigned, criticizing the organization for its response to the [[2023 Israel–Hamas war]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Ellie Quinlan |last=Houghtaling |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/176538/top-un-official-resigns-citing-genocide-gaza |title=He Went There: Top U.N. Official Resigns Citing "Genocide" in Gaza |publisher=[[The New Republic]] |date=31 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113085903/https://newrepublic.com/post/176538/top-un-official-resigns-citing-genocide-gaza |archive-date=13 November 2023 |quote=Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it.}}</ref><ref name="HTTAOG"/> A day after Colombia withdrew its ambassador from Israel, President [[Gustavo Petro]] posted on [[Twitter|X]] in Spanish: "It's called genocide, they do it to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza and take it over. The head of the state who carries out this genocide is a criminal against humanity. Their allies cannot talk about democracy."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/2/genocide-colombia-says-as-latin-american-states-condemn-israel-over-gaza |title='Genocide', Colombia says as Latin American states condemn Israel over Gaza |publisher=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |date=2 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120090306/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/2/genocide-colombia-says-as-latin-american-states-condemn-israel-over-gaza |archive-date=20 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rueda |first1=Manuel |title=Israel suspends military exports to Colombia over its president's criticism of Gaza siege |work=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/article/colombia-israel-petro-suspend-defense-exports-a92effbb531ea4631d25a8c1d32ede28 |url-status=live |access-date=20 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022012058/https://apnews.com/article/colombia-israel-petro-suspend-defense-exports-a92effbb531ea4631d25a8c1d32ede28 |archive-date=22 October 2023}}</ref> Leaders from Turkey,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gumrukcu |first1=Tuvan |last2=Karakas |first2=Burcu |title=Turkey's Erdogan calls on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza 'amounting to genocide' |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-calls-israel-stop-attacks-gaza-amounting-genocide-2023-10-20/ |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=20 October 2023 |access-date=25 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102065137/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-calls-israel-stop-attacks-gaza-amounting-genocide-2023-10-20/ |archive-date=2 November 2023}}</ref> Brazil,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Verdélio |first1=Andreia |date=25 October 2023 |title=President Lula says war in the Middle East is genocide |url=https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/politica/noticia/2023-10/president-lula-says-war-middle-east-genocide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126232437/https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/politica/noticia/2023-10/president-lula-says-war-middle-east-genocide |archive-date=26 November 2023 |access-date=26 October 2023 |website=Agência Brasil}}</ref> and Syria also condemned Israel's actions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Syria denounced Western support for Israel's massacre in Gaza |url=https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/10/26/syria-denounced-western-support-for-israels-massacre-in-gaza/#:~:text=Damascus%2C%20Oct%2026%20(Prensa%20Latina,led%20by%20the%20United%20States. |access-date=26 October 2023 |website=Prensa Latina |date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030202033/https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/10/26/syria-denounced-western-support-for-israels-massacre-in-gaza/ |archive-date=30 October 2023}}</ref> |
In late 2023, various global leaders and officials voiced their perspectives on the Israel-Gaza conflict, with many labeling Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide." Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,<ref>{{cite news |date=13 October 2023 |url=https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/4602621-iran-accuses-israel-‘genocide’-against-palestinians-gaza |title=Iran Accuses Israel of 'Genocide' Against the Palestinians in Gaza |publisher=Asharq Al-Awsat |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031095402/https://english.aawsat.com/arab-world/4602621-iran-accuses-israel-%E2%80%98genocide%E2%80%99-against-palestinians-gaza |archive-date=31 October 2023}}</ref> Pakistani Foreign Minister [[Jalil Abbas Jilani]],<ref>{{cite news |title=FM Jilani equates Israeli strikes, blockade of Gaza to genocide against Palestinians |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1781220/fm-jilani-equates-israeli-strikes-blockade-of-gaza-to-genocide-against-palestinians |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231024004155/https://www.dawn.com/news/1781220/fm-jilani-equates-israeli-strikes-blockade-of-gaza-to-genocide-against-palestinians |archive-date=24 October 2023 |publisher=[[Dawn (newspaper)|Dawn]]}}</ref> the [[Taliban]],<ref>{{cite web |date=18 October 2023 |title=The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan condemns in the strongest terms the bombardment of the Al-Mamadani Hospital in Gaza by the Zionist forces and deems this act barbaric and a crime against humanity. |url=https://mfa.gov.af/en/the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-islamic-emirate-of-afghanistan-condemns-in-the-strongest-terms-the-bombardment-of-the-al-mamadani-hospital-in-gaza-by-the-zionist-forces-and-deems-this-act-barba/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Afghanistan)]] |language=en-US |quote=We stand in solidarity with the Palestinians, and with countries and organizations calling for the immediate end of the ongoing genocide and bringing its perpetrators to justice.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117192320/https://mfa.gov.af/en/the-ministry-of-foreign-affairs-of-the-islamic-emirate-of-afghanistan-condemns-in-the-strongest-terms-the-bombardment-of-the-al-mamadani-hospital-in-gaza-by-the-zionist-forces-and-deems-this-act-barba/ |archive-date=17 January 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |first=Vasu |last=Sharma |date=14 November 2023 |title=Decoding Pakistan and Afghanistan's Public Responses to the Israel-Hamas War |url=https://www.stimson.org/2023/decoding-pakistan-and-afghanistans-public-responses-to-the-israel-hamas-war/ |access-date=17 January 2024 |website=[[Stimson Center]] |language=en-US |quote=The Taliban’s response to the current conflict is entirely in support of the Palestinians and calls out Israeli aggression for violating their rights and the sanctity of Al-Aqsa and other mosques in Palestine. In a series of tweets, Afghanistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred to Israel’s bombardment as a "genocide." |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240117192321/https://www.stimson.org/2023/decoding-pakistan-and-afghanistans-public-responses-to-the-israel-hamas-war/ |archive-date=17 January 2024}}</ref> Palestinian President [[Mahmoud Abbas]],<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mohamed |first1=Edna |last2=Najjar |first2=Farah |last3=Stepansky |first3=Joseph |title=Abbas: Israel's war on Gaza is 'genocide' |url=https://aje.io/rpfpqc?update=2488711 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116004227/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/15/israel-hamas-war-live-israel-says-it-plans-to-raid-al-shifa-ministry?update=2488711 |archive-date=16 November 2023 |access-date=16 November 2023 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref> Venezuelan President [[Nicolás Maduro]],<ref>{{cite web |url=https://en.mehrnews.com/news/206973/Israel-committing-genocide-against-Palestinian-people |title=Israel committing 'genocide' against Palestinian people |website=[[Mehr News Agency|Mehr News]] |date=10 October 2023 |access-date=12 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231016175619/https://en.mehrnews.com/news/206973/Israel-committing-genocide-against-Palestinian-people |archive-date=16 October 2023}}</ref> and the [[Kurdistan Communities Union]] were among those who condemned Israel's actions.<ref>{{cite web |date=18 October 2023 |title=KCK: Attacks on the Palestinian people must stop |url=https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/kck-attacks-on-the-palestinian-people-must-stop-69877 |access-date=6 February 2024 |website=[[Firat News Agency]] |language=en |quote=Last night, the Israeli state launched an airstrike on a hospital in Gaza and unfortunately hundreds of people lost their lives in this attack. This attack is an attack of massacre and genocide.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206185701/https://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/kck-attacks-on-the-palestinian-people-must-stop-69877 |archive-date=6 February 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |date=5 November 2023 |title=Kalkan: We defend the just cause of the Palestinian people until the end |url=https://anfenglish.com/features/kalkan-we-defend-the-just-cause-of-the-palestinian-people-until-the-end-70128 |access-date=6 February 2024 |website=[[Firat News Agency]] |language=en |quote=Some time ago, Armenians in Karabakh were facing genocide. People were suffering. Now the same situation is happening in Gaza. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240206185914/https://anfenglish.com/features/kalkan-we-defend-the-just-cause-of-the-palestinian-people-until-the-end-70128 |archive-date=6 February 2024}}</ref>{{efn|The Kurdistan Communities Union chair [[Cemîl Bayik]] urged Israel to change its approach.<ref>{{cite web |title=Cemil Bayik - Co-Chair of the KCK Executive Council |date=21 November 2023 |url=https://kck-info.com/interview-bayik-nov2123/ |website=[[Kurdistan Communities Union]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231225193155/https://kck-info.com/interview-bayik-nov2123/ |archive-date=25 December 2023 |quote=Israeli state and government have to immediately change their current approach and stop their attacks. They must abandon their policies of war, genocide and massacre.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Bayik: Kurdish, Palestinian questions are the biggest issues and democratic dynamics in Middle East |url=https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/bayik-kurdish-and-palestinian-are-the-biggest-issues-and-democratic-dynamics-in-middle-east-70418 |access-date=24 December 2023 |website=[[Firat News Agency]] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231224195002/https://anfenglishmobile.com/features/bayik-kurdish-and-palestinian-are-the-biggest-issues-and-democratic-dynamics-in-middle-east-70418 |archive-date=24 December 2023 |quote=Palestinian people have been resisting occupation and genocide for decades, struggling for freedom and liberation.}}</ref>}} [[Palestinian-American]] U.S. Congresswoman [[Rashida Tlaib]] accused President Biden of supporting this "genocide,"<ref name="droib">{{cite news |first=Karoun |last=Demirjian |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/politics/democrats-israel-gaza.html |title=Democratic Rifts Over Israel Burst to the Forefront in Congress |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=30 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108195142/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/us/politics/democrats-israel-gaza.html |archive-date=8 November 2023}}</ref> leading to a resolution for censure against her by the Republican caucus, sponsored by [[Marjorie Taylor Greene]].<ref name="droib"/> On 4 November, Tlaib released a video in which she directly accused [[President Biden]] of supporting "the genocide of the Palestinian people".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/us-representative-tlaib-accuses-biden-supporting-genocide-against-palestinians-2023-11-04/ |title=US Representative Tlaib accuses Biden of supporting genocide against Palestinians |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=4 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126213309/http://www.reuters.com/world/us-representative-tlaib-accuses-biden-supporting-genocide-against-palestinians-2023-11-04/ |archive-date=26 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="HTTAOG"/> [[Craig Mokhiber]] from the [[UN High Commissioner for Human Rights]] resigned, criticizing the organization for its response to the [[2023 Israel–Hamas war]].<ref>{{cite news |first=Ellie Quinlan |last=Houghtaling |url=https://newrepublic.com/post/176538/top-un-official-resigns-citing-genocide-gaza |title=He Went There: Top U.N. Official Resigns Citing "Genocide" in Gaza |publisher=[[The New Republic]] |date=31 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231113085903/https://newrepublic.com/post/176538/top-un-official-resigns-citing-genocide-gaza |archive-date=13 November 2023 |quote=Once again, we are seeing a genocide unfolding before our eyes, and the Organization that we serve appears powerless to stop it.}}</ref><ref name="HTTAOG"/> A day after Colombia withdrew its ambassador from Israel, President [[Gustavo Petro]] posted on [[Twitter|X]] in Spanish: "It's called genocide, they do it to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza and take it over. The head of the state who carries out this genocide is a criminal against humanity. Their allies cannot talk about democracy."<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/2/genocide-colombia-says-as-latin-american-states-condemn-israel-over-gaza |title='Genocide', Colombia says as Latin American states condemn Israel over Gaza |publisher=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |date=2 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120090306/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/2/genocide-colombia-says-as-latin-american-states-condemn-israel-over-gaza |archive-date=20 November 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rueda |first1=Manuel |title=Israel suspends military exports to Colombia over its president's criticism of Gaza siege |work=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://apnews.com/article/colombia-israel-petro-suspend-defense-exports-a92effbb531ea4631d25a8c1d32ede28 |url-status=live |access-date=20 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231022012058/https://apnews.com/article/colombia-israel-petro-suspend-defense-exports-a92effbb531ea4631d25a8c1d32ede28 |archive-date=22 October 2023}}</ref> Leaders from Turkey,<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gumrukcu |first1=Tuvan |last2=Karakas |first2=Burcu |title=Turkey's Erdogan calls on Israel to stop its attacks on Gaza 'amounting to genocide' |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-calls-israel-stop-attacks-gaza-amounting-genocide-2023-10-20/ |publisher=[[Reuters]] |date=20 October 2023 |access-date=25 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102065137/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/turkeys-erdogan-calls-israel-stop-attacks-gaza-amounting-genocide-2023-10-20/ |archive-date=2 November 2023}}</ref> Brazil,<ref>{{cite web |last1=Verdélio |first1=Andreia |date=25 October 2023 |title=President Lula says war in the Middle East is genocide |url=https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/politica/noticia/2023-10/president-lula-says-war-middle-east-genocide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126232437/https://agenciabrasil.ebc.com.br/en/politica/noticia/2023-10/president-lula-says-war-middle-east-genocide |archive-date=26 November 2023 |access-date=26 October 2023 |website=Agência Brasil}}</ref> and Syria also condemned Israel's actions.<ref>{{cite web |title=Syria denounced Western support for Israel's massacre in Gaza |url=https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/10/26/syria-denounced-western-support-for-israels-massacre-in-gaza/#:~:text=Damascus%2C%20Oct%2026%20(Prensa%20Latina,led%20by%20the%20United%20States. |access-date=26 October 2023 |website=Prensa Latina |date=26 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231030202033/https://www.plenglish.com/news/2023/10/26/syria-denounced-western-support-for-israels-massacre-in-gaza/ |archive-date=30 October 2023}}</ref> |
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On 9 February 2024, Turkish Foreign Minister [[Hakan Fidan]] stated that the international community's silence on Israel's actions in Gaza were "complicity in genocide".<ref>{{cite news |title=Turkey: World's silence on Gaza 'complicity in genocide' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-fear-in-rafah-as-israel-prepares-ground-attack?update=2694794 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240211130227/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-fear-in-rafah-as-israel-prepares-ground-attack?update=2694794 |archive-date=11 February 2024 |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref> The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the UN Security Council "to take urgent action to prevent the Israeli occupation forces from storming Rafah and committing genocide in" Rafah.<ref>{{cite news |title=Qatar strongly condemns Israeli threats to storm Rafah |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-death-toll-nears-28000-as-rafah-assault-looms?update=2697418 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240211130345/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-death-toll-nears-28000-as-rafah-assault-looms?update=2697418 |archive-date=11 February 2024 |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref> On 17 February, [[Moussa Faki]], the president of the [[African Union]], stated, "Gaza is being completely annihilated and its people are deprived of all their rights. We denounce the Israeli operation, which has no parallel in the history of humanity."<ref>{{cite news |title=African Union Commission head says Gaza being 'annihilated' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/17/israels-war-on-gaza-live-icj-warns-of-perilous-situation-in-rafah?update=2713416 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |access-date=18 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218002025/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/17/israels-war-on-gaza-live-icj-warns-of-perilous-situation-in-rafah?update=2713416 |archive-date=18 February 2024}}</ref> On 18 February, Brazilian President [[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]] stated, "What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews."<ref>{{cite |
On 9 February 2024, Turkish Foreign Minister [[Hakan Fidan]] stated that the international community's silence on Israel's actions in Gaza were "complicity in genocide".<ref>{{cite news |title=Turkey: World's silence on Gaza 'complicity in genocide' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-fear-in-rafah-as-israel-prepares-ground-attack?update=2694794 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240211130227/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/9/israels-war-on-gaza-live-fear-in-rafah-as-israel-prepares-ground-attack?update=2694794 |archive-date=11 February 2024 |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref> The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the UN Security Council "to take urgent action to prevent the Israeli occupation forces from storming Rafah and committing genocide in" Rafah.<ref>{{cite news |title=Qatar strongly condemns Israeli threats to storm Rafah |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-death-toll-nears-28000-as-rafah-assault-looms?update=2697418 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240211130345/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/10/israels-war-on-gaza-live-death-toll-nears-28000-as-rafah-assault-looms?update=2697418 |archive-date=11 February 2024 |access-date=11 February 2024 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]]}}</ref> On 17 February, [[Moussa Faki]], the president of the [[African Union]], stated, "Gaza is being completely annihilated and its people are deprived of all their rights. We denounce the Israeli operation, which has no parallel in the history of humanity."<ref>{{cite news |title=African Union Commission head says Gaza being 'annihilated' |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/17/israels-war-on-gaza-live-icj-warns-of-perilous-situation-in-rafah?update=2713416 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |access-date=18 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240218002025/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2024/2/17/israels-war-on-gaza-live-icj-warns-of-perilous-situation-in-rafah?update=2713416 |archive-date=18 February 2024}}</ref> On 18 February, Brazilian President [[Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva]] stated, "What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews."<ref>{{cite news |title=Brazil's Lula compares Israel's war on Gaza with the Holocaust |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/18/brazils-lula-compares-israels-war-on-gaza-with-the-holocaust |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |access-date=19 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240219084811/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/18/brazils-lula-compares-israels-war-on-gaza-with-the-holocaust |archive-date=19 February 2024}}</ref> |
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On 1 November, the [[Defence for Children International]] accused the United States of complicity with Israel's "crime of genocide."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mohamed |first1=Edna |last2=Stepansky |first2=Joseph |last3=Najjar |first3=Farah |title=Rights group accuses US of complicity in children's deaths in Gaza |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |url=https://aje.io/cevgx6?update=2455675 |access-date=1 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102022100/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/1/israel-hamas-war-live-anger-grows-over-israeli-attack-on-gaza-refugee-camp?update=2455675 |archive-date=2 November 2023}}</ref> |
On 1 November, the [[Defence for Children International]] accused the United States of complicity with Israel's "crime of genocide."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mohamed |first1=Edna |last2=Stepansky |first2=Joseph |last3=Najjar |first3=Farah |title=Rights group accuses US of complicity in children's deaths in Gaza |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |url=https://aje.io/cevgx6?update=2455675 |access-date=1 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102022100/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/1/israel-hamas-war-live-anger-grows-over-israeli-attack-on-gaza-refugee-camp?update=2455675 |archive-date=2 November 2023}}</ref> |
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On 2 November 2023, a group of UN special rapporteurs stated, "We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Najjar |first1=Farah |last2=Stepansky |first2=Joseph |title='Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide': UN experts |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |url=https://aje.io/k8y4b6?update=2457805 |access-date=2 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103014353/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/2/israel-hamas-war-live-195-killed-120-missing-in-jabalia-strikes?update=2457805 |archive-date=3 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="HTTAOG"/> On 4 November, Pedro Arrojo, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, said that based on article 7 of the [[Rome Statute]], which counts "deprivation of access to food or medicine, among others" as a form of extermination, "even if there is no clear intention, the data show that the war is heading towards genocide".<ref>{{cite news |last=Stacey |first=Diego |date=4 November 2023 |title=Pedro Arrojo, UN Special Rapporteur: 'The Gaza war is heading towards genocide' |publisher=[[El País]] |url=https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-11-04/pedro-arrojo-un-special-rapporteur-the-gaza-war-is-heading-towards-genocide.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108133528/https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-11-04/pedro-arrojo-un-special-rapporteur-the-gaza-war-is-heading-towards-genocide.html |archive-date=8 November 2023}}</ref> Three Palestinian rights groups [[Al-Haq]], [[Al Mezan Center for Human Rights|Al Mezan]], and the [[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights]] have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging the body to investigate Israel for "apartheid" as well as "genocide" and issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.<ref>{{cite web |date=9 November 2023 |title=ICC receives lawsuit over Israel's 'apartheid', 'genocide' in Gaza |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/9/three-rights-groups-file-icc-lawsuit-against-israel-over-gaza-genocide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125014617/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/9/three-rights-groups-file-icc-lawsuit-against-israel-over-gaza-genocide |archive-date=25 November 2023 |access-date=9 November 2023 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |language=en}}</ref> |
On 2 November 2023, a group of UN special rapporteurs stated, "We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide."<ref>{{cite news |last1=Najjar |first1=Farah |last2=Stepansky |first2=Joseph |title='Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide': UN experts |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |url=https://aje.io/k8y4b6?update=2457805 |access-date=2 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231103014353/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2023/11/2/israel-hamas-war-live-195-killed-120-missing-in-jabalia-strikes?update=2457805 |archive-date=3 November 2023}}</ref><ref name="HTTAOG"/> On 4 November, Pedro Arrojo, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, said that based on article 7 of the [[Rome Statute]], which counts "deprivation of access to food or medicine, among others" as a form of extermination, "even if there is no clear intention, the data show that the war is heading towards genocide".<ref name="Stacey">{{cite news |last=Stacey |first=Diego |date=4 November 2023 |title=Pedro Arrojo, UN Special Rapporteur: 'The Gaza war is heading towards genocide' |publisher=[[El País]] |url=https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-11-04/pedro-arrojo-un-special-rapporteur-the-gaza-war-is-heading-towards-genocide.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108133528/https://english.elpais.com/international/2023-11-04/pedro-arrojo-un-special-rapporteur-the-gaza-war-is-heading-towards-genocide.html |archive-date=8 November 2023}}</ref> Three Palestinian rights groups [[Al-Haq]], [[Al Mezan Center for Human Rights|Al Mezan]], and the [[Palestinian Centre for Human Rights]] have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging the body to investigate Israel for "apartheid" as well as "genocide" and issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.<ref>{{cite web |date=9 November 2023 |title=ICC receives lawsuit over Israel's 'apartheid', 'genocide' in Gaza |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/9/three-rights-groups-file-icc-lawsuit-against-israel-over-gaza-genocide |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125014617/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/11/9/three-rights-groups-file-icc-lawsuit-against-israel-over-gaza-genocide |archive-date=25 November 2023 |access-date=9 November 2023 |work=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |language=en}}</ref> |
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On 16 November, A group of United Nations experts said there was "evidence of increasing genocidal incitement" against Palestinians.<ref>{{cite news |date=16 November 2023 |title=UN experts point to evidence of 'genocidal incitement' against Palestinians |newspaper=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-experts-point-evidence-genocidal-incitement-against-palestinians-2023-11-16/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123025318/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-experts-point-evidence-genocidal-incitement-against-palestinians-2023-11-16/ |archive-date=23 November 2023 |via=www.reuters.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gaza: UN human rights experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people - OHCHR Press Release |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/gaza-un-human-rights-experts-call-on-international-community-to-prevent-genocide-against-the-palestinian-people-ohchr-press-release/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231127224142/https://www.un.org/unispal/document/gaza-un-human-rights-experts-call-on-international-community-to-prevent-genocide-against-the-palestinian-people-ohchr-press-release/ |archive-date=27 November 2023}}</ref> [[Jewish Voice for Peace]] stated: "The Israeli government has declared a genocidal war on the people of Gaza. As an organization that works for a future where Palestinians and Israelis and all people live in equality and freedom, we call on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide of Palestinians."<ref name="JVP">{{cite web |date=11 October 2023 |title=Jewish Voice for Peace calls on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide |url=https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/11/statement23-10-11/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116181005/https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/11/statement23-10-11/ |archive-date=16 November 2023 |work=[[Jewish Voice for Peace]]}}</ref> On 13 December, [[FIDH]] stated Israel's actions in Gaza constituted an unfolding genocide.<ref>{{cite web |title=The unfolding genocide against the Palestinians must stop immediately |url=https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/israel-palestine/the-unfolding-genocide-against-the-palestinians-must-stop-immediately |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216191823/https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/israel-palestine/the-unfolding-genocide-against-the-palestinians-must-stop-immediately |archive-date=16 December 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=[[International Federation for Human Rights]]}}</ref> |
On 16 November, A group of United Nations experts said there was "evidence of increasing genocidal incitement" against Palestinians.<ref>{{cite news |date=16 November 2023 |title=UN experts point to evidence of 'genocidal incitement' against Palestinians |newspaper=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-experts-point-evidence-genocidal-incitement-against-palestinians-2023-11-16/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231123025318/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/un-experts-point-evidence-genocidal-incitement-against-palestinians-2023-11-16/ |archive-date=23 November 2023 |via=www.reuters.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Gaza: UN human rights experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people - OHCHR Press Release |url=https://www.un.org/unispal/document/gaza-un-human-rights-experts-call-on-international-community-to-prevent-genocide-against-the-palestinian-people-ohchr-press-release/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231127224142/https://www.un.org/unispal/document/gaza-un-human-rights-experts-call-on-international-community-to-prevent-genocide-against-the-palestinian-people-ohchr-press-release/ |archive-date=27 November 2023}}</ref> [[Jewish Voice for Peace]] stated: "The Israeli government has declared a genocidal war on the people of Gaza. As an organization that works for a future where Palestinians and Israelis and all people live in equality and freedom, we call on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide of Palestinians."<ref name="JVP">{{cite web |date=11 October 2023 |title=Jewish Voice for Peace calls on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide |url=https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/11/statement23-10-11/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231116181005/https://www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/2023/10/11/statement23-10-11/ |archive-date=16 November 2023 |work=[[Jewish Voice for Peace]]}}</ref> On 13 December, [[FIDH]] stated Israel's actions in Gaza constituted an unfolding genocide.<ref>{{cite web |title=The unfolding genocide against the Palestinians must stop immediately |url=https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/israel-palestine/the-unfolding-genocide-against-the-palestinians-must-stop-immediately |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216191823/https://www.fidh.org/en/region/north-africa-middle-east/israel-palestine/the-unfolding-genocide-against-the-palestinians-must-stop-immediately |archive-date=16 December 2023 |access-date=13 December 2023 |website=[[International Federation for Human Rights]]}}</ref> |
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* {{cite news |last1=Antonio |first1=Raymund |date=23 October 2023 |title=Civilians not a target: Envoy decries 'genocide' tag of Israel–Hamas war |work=[[Manila Bulletin]] |url=https://mb.com.ph/2023/10/23/civilians-not-a-target-envoy-decries-genocide-tag-of-israel-hamas-war |access-date=1 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101160309/https://mb.com.ph/2023/10/23/civilians-not-a-target-envoy-decries-genocide-tag-of-israel-hamas-war |archive-date=1 November 2023 |quote=Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines Ilan Fluss rejected the notion that his country is committing genocide in Gaza City, where a two-week war has erupted [...] their measures were targeting Hamas members, and they were "taking all measures to avoid having civilians affected" by attacks. "We are informing civilians even before attacks: keep away from Hamas' infrastructure and Hamas' facilities," [...] Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, and killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians.}} |
* {{cite news |last1=Antonio |first1=Raymund |date=23 October 2023 |title=Civilians not a target: Envoy decries 'genocide' tag of Israel–Hamas war |work=[[Manila Bulletin]] |url=https://mb.com.ph/2023/10/23/civilians-not-a-target-envoy-decries-genocide-tag-of-israel-hamas-war |access-date=1 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231101160309/https://mb.com.ph/2023/10/23/civilians-not-a-target-envoy-decries-genocide-tag-of-israel-hamas-war |archive-date=1 November 2023 |quote=Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines Ilan Fluss rejected the notion that his country is committing genocide in Gaza City, where a two-week war has erupted [...] their measures were targeting Hamas members, and they were "taking all measures to avoid having civilians affected" by attacks. "We are informing civilians even before attacks: keep away from Hamas' infrastructure and Hamas' facilities," [...] Hamas attacked Israel on Oct. 7, and killed at least 1,400 people, mostly civilians.}} |
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* {{cite news |date=2 December 2023 |title=Israeli offensive shifts to crowded southern Gaza, driving up death toll despite evacuation orders |url=https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-12-2-2023-f300e8dac70d5309bf5f5a75bace7689 |access-date=4 December 2023 |work=[[AP News]] |language=en |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231216054613/https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-12-2-2023-f300e8dac70d5309bf5f5a75bace7689 |archive-date=16 December 2023 |ref={{sfnref |AP News|2023a}}}} |
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* {{cite news |last=Bishara |first=Marwan |author-link=Marwan Bishara |date=12 October 2023 |title=Israel is manufacturing a case for genocide |language=en-US |newspaper=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/12/israel-is-manufacturing-a-case-for-genocide |access-date=12 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120213933/https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/12/israel-is-manufacturing-a-case-for-genocide |archive-date=20 November 2023}} |
* {{cite news |last=Bishara |first=Marwan |author-link=Marwan Bishara |date=12 October 2023 |title=Israel is manufacturing a case for genocide |language=en-US |newspaper=[[Al Jazeera English|Al Jazeera]] |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/12/israel-is-manufacturing-a-case-for-genocide |access-date=12 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231120213933/https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/10/12/israel-is-manufacturing-a-case-for-genocide |archive-date=20 November 2023}} |
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⚫ | * {{cite magazine |last=Burga |first=Solcyré |date=13 November 2023 |title=Is What's Happening in Gaza a Genocide? Experts Weigh In |url=https://time.com/6334409/is-whats-happening-gaza-genocide-experts |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=24 November 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231125022352/https://time.com/6334409/is-whats-happening-gaza-genocide-experts/ |archive-date=25 November 2023}} |
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* {{cite news |last1=Chacar |first1=Henriette |date=10 November 2023 |title=Israel revises Hamas attack death toll to 'around 1,200' |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-revises-death-toll-oct-7-hamas-attack-around-1200-2023-11-10/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111012813/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-revises-death-toll-oct-7-hamas-attack-around-1200-2023-11-10/ |archive-date=11 November 2023}} |
* {{cite news |last1=Chacar |first1=Henriette |date=10 November 2023 |title=Israel revises Hamas attack death toll to 'around 1,200' |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-revises-death-toll-oct-7-hamas-attack-around-1200-2023-11-10/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231111012813/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-revises-death-toll-oct-7-hamas-attack-around-1200-2023-11-10/ |archive-date=11 November 2023}} |
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* {{cite web |title=Nearly 25,000 Palestinians killed during 70-day Israeli genocide in Gaza |date=15 December 2023 |url=https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6035/Nearly-25,000-Palestinians-killed-during-70-day-Israeli-genocide-in-Gaza |website=[[Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor]] |access-date=25 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231220142411/https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6035/Nearly-25,000-Palestinians-killed-during-70-day-Israeli-genocide-in-Gaza |archive-date=20 December 2023 |ref={{sfnref |Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor|2023}}}} |
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* {{cite web |website=[[Human Rights Watch]] |title=World Court to hear Genocide Case Against Israel |date=10 January 2024 |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/10/world-court-hear-genocide-case-against-israel |access-date=10 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110151152/https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/10/world-court-hear-genocide-case-against-israel |archive-date=10 January 2024 |ref={{sfnref |Human Rights Watch |2024}} }} |
* {{cite web |website=[[Human Rights Watch]] |title=World Court to hear Genocide Case Against Israel |date=10 January 2024 |url=https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/10/world-court-hear-genocide-case-against-israel |access-date=10 January 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240110151152/https://www.hrw.org/news/2024/01/10/world-court-hear-genocide-case-against-israel |archive-date=10 January 2024 |ref={{sfnref |Human Rights Watch |2024}} }} |
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* {{cite news |last1=Mackenzie |first1=James |last2=Lubell |first2=Maayan |date=29 October 2023 |title=Israel launches Gaza war's second phase with ground operation, Netanyahu says |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-calls-humanitarian-pauses-gaza-aid-israel-raids-enclave-2023-10-26/ |access-date=1 November 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231029040509/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-calls-humanitarian-pauses-gaza-aid-israel-raids-enclave-2023-10-26/ |archive-date=29 October 2023 |quote=Israel has tightened its blockade on and bombarded Gaza for three weeks after the Islamist group Hamas' Oct. 7 assault killed 1,400 Israelis [...] Abbas ... said, "Our people in the Gaza Strip are facing a war of genocide and massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces in full view of the entire world."}} |
* {{cite news |last1=Mackenzie |first1=James |last2=Lubell |first2=Maayan |date=29 October 2023 |title=Israel launches Gaza war's second phase with ground operation, Netanyahu says |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-calls-humanitarian-pauses-gaza-aid-israel-raids-enclave-2023-10-26/ |access-date=1 November 2023 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20231029040509/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/eu-calls-humanitarian-pauses-gaza-aid-israel-raids-enclave-2023-10-26/ |archive-date=29 October 2023 |quote=Israel has tightened its blockade on and bombarded Gaza for three weeks after the Islamist group Hamas' Oct. 7 assault killed 1,400 Israelis [...] Abbas ... said, "Our people in the Gaza Strip are facing a war of genocide and massacres committed by the Israeli occupation forces in full view of the entire world."}} |
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* {{cite web |title=Cuba apoya la demanda de Sudáfrica ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia contra el genocidio de Israel en Palestina |date=11 January 2024 |url=https://cubaminrex.cu/es/cuba-apoya-la-demanda-de-sudafrica-ante-la-corte-internacional-de-justicia-contra-el-genocidio-de |website=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cuba)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] |language=es |trans-title=Cuba supports South Africa's lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against Israel's genocide in Palestine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111181941/http://cubaminrex.cu/es/cuba-apoya-la-demanda-de-sudafrica-ante-la-corte-internacional-de-justicia-contra-el-genocidio-de |archive-date=11 January 2024 |ref={{sfnref |Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs |2024}} }} |
* {{cite web |title=Cuba apoya la demanda de Sudáfrica ante la Corte Internacional de Justicia contra el genocidio de Israel en Palestina |date=11 January 2024 |url=https://cubaminrex.cu/es/cuba-apoya-la-demanda-de-sudafrica-ante-la-corte-internacional-de-justicia-contra-el-genocidio-de |website=[[Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Cuba)|Ministry of Foreign Affairs]] |language=es |trans-title=Cuba supports South Africa's lawsuit before the International Court of Justice against Israel's genocide in Palestine |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240111181941/http://cubaminrex.cu/es/cuba-apoya-la-demanda-de-sudafrica-ante-la-corte-internacional-de-justicia-contra-el-genocidio-de |archive-date=11 January 2024 |ref={{sfnref |Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs |2024}} }} |
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* {{cite news |last=Nichols |first=Michelle |date=11 October 2023 |title=Palestinian UN envoy accuses Israel of 'genocidal' campaign against Gaza |language=en-US |newspaper=[[Reuters News]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-un-envoy-accuses-israel-genocidal-campaign-against-gaza-2023-10-10/ |access-date=13 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114095429/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-un-envoy-accuses-israel-genocidal-campaign-against-gaza-2023-10-10/ |archive-date=14 November 2023}} |
* {{cite news |last=Nichols |first=Michelle |date=11 October 2023 |title=Palestinian UN envoy accuses Israel of 'genocidal' campaign against Gaza |language=en-US |newspaper=[[Reuters News]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-un-envoy-accuses-israel-genocidal-campaign-against-gaza-2023-10-10/ |access-date=13 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231114095429/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/palestinian-un-envoy-accuses-israel-genocidal-campaign-against-gaza-2023-10-10/ |archive-date=14 November 2023}} |
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* {{cite news |last1=Sawafta |first1=Ali |last2=Fick |first2=Maggie |date=7 December 2023 |title=How many Palestinians have died in Gaza? Death toll explained |language=en |work=[[Reuters]] |url=https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-have-died-gaza-war-how-will-counting-continue-2023-12-06/ |access-date=8 December 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231212021332/https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/how-many-palestinians-have-died-gaza-war-how-will-counting-continue-2023-12-06/ |archive-date=12 December 2023}} |
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Revision as of 18:56, 19 February 2024
Gaza genocide allegations | |
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Part of the Israel–Hamas war and Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories | |
Location | Gaza Strip |
Date | 7 October 2023 | – present
Target | Palestinians |
Attack type | Collective punishment, airstrikes, famine, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, mass murder, others |
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Victims | |
Motive | Response to attack on Israel |
Accused | Israel
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The State of Israel has been accused of genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip during the Israel–Hamas war,[5][6][7] which began after the 7 October attacks on Israel.[8][9] Various scholars have cited statements by senior Israeli officials, which they argue demonstrate an "intent to destroy" the population of Gaza, a necessary condition for the legal threshold of genocide to be met.[6][10]
The government of South Africa has instituted proceedings against Israel at the International Court of Justice, alleging genocide.[11] In an interim ruling, the International Court of Justice found Israel was operating under plausible intent to commit genocide and ordered Israel to observe its obligations under the Genocide Convention by taking all measures within its power to prevent the commission of acts of genocide, to prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and to allow basic humanitarian services into Gaza.[12][13] The Israeli government rejected the court's finding.[14]
Between 7 October 2023 and 1 February 2024, Israeli forces had killed over 27,000 Palestinians – one out of every 85 people in Gaza – averaging 230 killings a day. A majority of victims were civilians, including over 12,000 children, 8,000 women and 85 journalists.[15] It is believed that thousands of more dead bodies are under the rubble of destroyed buildings.[16][17][18]
Background
On 7 October Hamas led attacks into Israel from Gaza.[8][9] Since the 7 October attacks, Israel's response in Gaza has led to concerns that the Hamas-led attack was being used by Israel to justify genocide against Palestinians.[19]
Legal definition of genocide
The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as any of five "acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group".[20][21] The acts in question include killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, imposing living conditions intended to destroy the group, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children out of the group.[20] Genocide is a crime of special intent ("dolus specialis"); it is carried out deliberately, with victims targeted based on real or perceived membership in a protected group.[21]
Victims
A Reliefweb report released November 18, 2023, which labels Israel's actions in Gaza as a genocide, reported that 15,271 Palestinians in Gaza had been killed, 32,310 Palestinians had been injured, and an estimated 41,500 were unaccounted for.[22] Multiple news and academic outlets have subsequently reported on updated figures, with at least 20,000 Palestinians having been killed in Gaza, an estimated 70% of whom were women and children.[23][24] Per the Gaza Health Ministry and Government Information Office by 3 January 2024, over 22,300 people had been confirmed dead.[25] About 7,000 people are missing, likely buried under the rubble.[26] Over 52,000 have been wounded.[27][28]
Since the beginning of the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, nearly 2 million people have been displaced within the Gaza Strip.[29][30][31]
Alleged genocidal intent
In an article in Opinio Juris scholars opined that statements by Israeli officials since October 7 indicated intent to commit genocide.[32] The NGO Law for Palestine compiled more than 500 statements by Israeli political and military officials that allegedly call for genocide.[b][33]
Israeli cabinet ministers
Since 7 October 2023 a variety of official and semi-official sources and outlets have engaged in rhetoric suggestive of genocidal intent.[31]
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's repeated invocation of "Amalek" during the war has been considered evidence of genocidal intent by many critics,[34][35][36] including South Africa.[35] In a speech on 28 October 2023, Netanyahu said "You must remember what Amalek has done to you, says our Holy Bible," quoting from Deuteronomy 25:17 in the Hebrew Bible.[37][38][c] The phrase "Remember what Amalek did to you"[d] is used in Holocaust memorials, including Yad Vashem and the Hague Jewish Monument.[39] Netanyahu later made another allusion to the verse in a letter to IDF soldiers and officers.[34]
Critics have connected Netanyahu's allusion to Amalek with 1 Samuel 15:3: "Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass."[e] Noah Lanard of Mother Jones describes verses discussing Amalek as among the most violent in the Bible and that they have a long history of being used by Jews on the far-right, such as Baruch Goldstein, to justify killing Palestinians.[40] Amalek was "the foe that God ordered the ancient Israelites to genocide",[41] and scholars have described the verse as an instance of 'divinely mandated genocide'.[42] However, Yair Rosenberg of The Atlantic argues that the verse from Deuteronomy which Netanyahu cites refers to the need to remember an attack against the Jewish people and that connecting Netanyahu's remarks to Samuel is inaccurate, comparing the interpretation to tying the term jihad exclusively with Islamic terrorism.[39][35][36] In addition to this, on October 7, Netanyahu said the people of Gaza would pay a "huge price", and Israel would turn parts of Gaza "into rubble".[36]
On 9 October 2023, Yoav Gallant, Israeli Minister of Defense, stated "We are fighting human animals, and we are acting accordingly",[43] a statement that was characterized as an example of dehumanization.[36] On October 10, Gallant said he had "removed every restriction" and was reported by the Associated Press as having added "Gaza won't return to what it was before. We will eliminate everything."[44] The Associated Press, the New York Times, The Guardian and NPR all issued corrections to the translated quote, restoring a second sentence which had been omitted in earlier reporting, making the quotation "Gaza won't return to what it was before. There will be no Hamas. We will eliminate everything."[45][39]
Avi Dichter, Israeli Minister of Agriculture, called for the war to be "Gaza's Nakba" on Channel 12.[46] Ariel Kallner, another Member of the Knesset from the Likud party, similarly wrote on social media that there is "one goal: Nakba! A Nakba that will overshadow the Nakba of [1948]. Nakba in Gaza and Nakba to anyone who dares to join".[47] Amihai Eliyahu, Israeli Minister of Heritage, called for dropping an atomic bomb on Gaza.[46]
Israeli energy minister Israel Katz said "All the civilian population in Gaza is ordered to leave immediately. We will win. They will not receive a drop of water or a single battery until they leave the world."[34][32]
Israeli president and members of Israeli parliament
President of Israel Isaac Herzog blamed the "entire nation" of Palestine for the 7 October attack.[6] He further said "It is not true this rhetoric about civilians being not aware, not involved. It is absolutely not true."[32]
Yitzhak Kroizer, representing the extreme-right Otzma Yehudit party in the Knesset, stated in a radio interview that the "Gaza Strip should be flattened, and for all of them there is but one sentence, and that is death."[48] Tally Gotliv of the Likud party called for the use of nuclear weapons against Gaza.[48]
Other Israeli officials
Major General Ghassan Alian, Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories, stated: "There will be no electricity and no water (in Gaza), there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hell".[43]
IDF Major general Giora Eiland wrote "Gaza will become a place where no human being can exist".[36] He added "Creating a severe humanitarian crisis in Gaza is a necessary means to achieving the goal."[36] Israeli historian Omer Bartov writes that no Israeli politician nor anyone in the IDF denounced this statement.[36]
The spokesperson for the Israeli army said, in regards to Israel's bombing of Gaza, "the emphasis is on damage not accuracy". This statement was interpreted by legal scholars as intention of destruction.[32]
The mayor of the Israeli town of Metula said the Gaza Strip should be "flattened completely, just like Auschwitz today."[49]
Rhetoric from politicians in the United States
In October, Florida governor Ron DeSantis said "If you look at how [people in Gaza] behave, not all of them are Hamas, but they are all anti-Semitic" and called for a "swift and lethal response."[50] In the Florida legislature, Democratic Representative Angie Nixon was talking in support of a resolution she sponsored calling for "de-escalation" and a ceasefire to end the killing of Palestinians. At some point she said "We are at 10,000 dead Palestinians. How many will be enough?", Republican Representative Michelle Salzman replied instantly "All of them," Nixon interrupted her speech saying "One of my colleagues just said 'All of them.' Wow." This remark has been characterised as an open call for genocide by some commentators. Nixon and the Florida chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations called for her to be censured or to resign.[51][52] CAIR-Florida Executive Director Imam Abdullah Jaber said in a statement: "This chilling call for genocide by an American lawmaker is the direct result of decades of dehumanization of the Palestinian people by advocates of Israeli apartheid and their eager enablers in government and the media."[53] Ahmad Abuznaid, the executive director of the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USPCR) said that "There is a bipartisan effort to dehumanise the Palestinian people," referring especially to President Joe Biden voicing doubt over the accuracy of the Palestinian death count and attacks on Palestinian American Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib for her criticism of Israel's military offensive.[54]
US Congressman Max Miller, speaking at Fox News stated that Palestine is "about to get eviscerated... to turn that into a parking lot." He has previously called on the Biden administration "to get out of Israel's way and to let Israel do what it needs to do best". He said there should be "no rules of engagement" during Israel's bombardment of Gaza.[55] Miller also questioned the accuracy of the Gaza Health Ministry's claim that 10,000 people have been killed in Gaza, saying that he believes many of those killed have been "Hamas terrorists", not innocent civilians, and said the United States does not "trust an entity that puts munitions in mosques, and churches and in hospitals."[56] Former Rep. Michele Bachmann appearing in December in The Charlie Kirk Show stated "So, it's time that Gaza ends. The two million people who live there – they are clever assassins. They need to be removed from that land. That land needs to be turned into a national park. And since they're the voluntary mercenaries for Iran, they need to be dropped on the doorstep of Iran. Let Iran deal with those people." She received a round of applause from the audience, while Kirk replied "I look at Israel and Israel says we never want another person into our country that doesn't share our values," Kirk said. "They said they don't want refugees. They don't want any of these people. I want American immigration policy to be like that."[57][58] Republican Representative, Brian Mast, compared all Palestinians to Nazis in November on the House floor.[59] While in December he said that Palestinian babies are not innocent civilians but "terrorists" who should be killed and that more infrastructure in Gaza needs to be destroyed.[60]
Alleged genocidal actions
Since 7 October 2023, the IDF has been accused of the extrajudicial killing of Palestinian unarmed detainees,[61][62] doctors,[63] and workers, making threats of mutilation,[64] death, arson, rape,[65] and torturing Palestinians detained without legal charges.[66][67] It has also been accused of using excessive force against dozens of schools[68] and hospitals,[69] theft,[67] the cruel and unnecessary desecration and mutilation of deceased Palestinians,[63] and making no, or an inadequate distinction between Hamas forces and civilians.[70] During the fighting, Channel 14 kept a count of every Palestinian killed, labelling all Palestinian casualties as terrorists,[71] while Shimon Riklin, a Channel 14 journalist and anchor, publicly advocated Israel committing more war crimes.[71][72]
Academic and legal discourse
There is currently disagreement among scholars as to whether Israel's actions can be described as a genocide against the Palestinians.[6][73]
On 13 October, Israeli historian Raz Segal described the imposed blockade of Gaza, which included the denial of water and food to the civilian population, as a "textbook case of genocide" and connected it to the Nakba, the expulsion of Palestinians during the establishment of Israel in 1948.[74] With other academics also detailing Israel's attacks on infrastructure, food, and water as being genocidal in nature,[75][76][77]
On 19 October 2023, 100 civil society organizations and six genocide scholars sent a letter to Karim Khan, Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, calling on him to issue arrest warrants to Israeli officials for cases already before the prosecutor; to investigate the new crimes committed in the Palestinian territories, including incitement to genocide, since 7 October; to issue a preventative statement against war crimes; and to remind all states of their obligations under international law. The letter noted that Israeli officials, in their statements, had indicated "clear intent to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and incitement to commit genocide, using dehumanizing language to describe Palestinians." The six specialist genocide scholars that signed the document were Raz Segal, Barry Trachtenberg, Robert McNeil, Damien Short, Taner Akçam and Victoria Sanford.[78] Segal called the war a "textbook case of genocide."[74][6] The same day, lawyers at the Center for Constitutional Rights stated that Israel's tactics were "calculated to destroy the Palestinian population in Gaza", and warned the Biden administration that "U.S. officials can be held responsible for their failure to prevent Israel’s unfolding genocide, as well as for their complicity, by encouraging it and materially supporting it."[79]
On 9 November 2023, 47 scholars in the fields of history, law, and criminology published an open letter describing Israel's Gaza offensive as genocide.[10] Published by the International State Crime Initiative based at Queen Mary University of London, the scholars wrote that "the Israeli state is employing its extensive and advanced military capacity to inflict violence on Palestinian peoples on such a scale that it is accurate to frame it as the annihilation phase of genocide."[10] A number of prominent Israelis, represented by human rights lawyer Michael Sfard, sent an 11-page open letter to Israel's attorney general and state prosecutor, detailing examples of "the discourse of annihilation, expulsion and revenge".[48] The signatories alleged that the Israeli judiciary was ignoring incitement to genocide in Gaza.[48] On 10 November 2023, Israeli Holocaust scholar Omer Bartov stated in a New York Times opinion piece: "My greatest concern watching the Israel-Gaza war unfold is that there is genocidal intent, which can easily tip into genocidal action."[80]
On 13 November 2023, David Simon, director for genocide studies at Yale University, stated that it was possible that a court could find the IDF guilty of committing an act of genocide, but added that "it's certainly not textbook in that connecting the intent to destroy ethnic group as such is difficult."[6] Yale's Ben Kiernan opined that events did "not meet the very high threshold that is required to meet the legal definition of genocide."[6] Adam Jones, author of a textbook on genocide, took the view that beyond killing civilians en masse, Israel appeared to be inflicting "conditions of life calculated to bring about [the targeted group’s] physical destruction," thus violating the Genocide Convention; other scholars such as Dov Waxman said that while there was a "risk of genocidal actions" in Gaza, claims it was already happening were "stretching the concept too far, emptying it of any meaning."[81] Martin Shaw on the other hand argued that the term "genocide" was under-deployed as states wished "to avoid the responsibilities to 'prevent and punish'" imposed by the convention; moreover, he argued, there was "a special aversion to investigating its implications for Israel’s conduct. Western states continue to protect it out of a misplaced belief that Jews, having been prime historical victims of genocide, cannot also be its perpetrators."[82][83]
Ernesto Verdeja, a professor at the University of Notre Dame, told Time on 14 November, that Israel's actions in Gaza were gravitating towards a "genocidal campaign", noting that "the response when you have a security crisis…can be one of ceasefire, negotiation, or it can be genocide."[6] Victoria Sanford, professor of City University of New York, compared events in Gaza to the 1960–1996 killing and disappearance of 200,000 Mayans in Guatemala, today known as the Guatemalan genocide.[6] Norman Finkelstein has argued that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's description of the Palestinians as "Amalek" was a call for genocide;[84] he accused Israel of engaging in a "genocidal war".[85] On 15 October, TWAILR published a statement signed by over 800 legal scholars expressing "alarm about the possibility of the crime of genocide being perpetrated by Israeli forces against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip" and calling on UN bodies, including the UN Office on Genocide Prevention and the Responsibility to Protect, as well as the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to "immediately intervene, to carry out the necessary investigations, and invoke the necessary warning procedures to protect the Palestinian population from genocide."[86][41][87]
Statements by political organizations and governments
In late 2023, various global leaders and officials voiced their perspectives on the Israel-Gaza conflict, with many labeling Israel's actions in Gaza as "genocide." Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian,[88] Pakistani Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani,[89] the Taliban,[90][91] Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas,[92] Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro,[93] and the Kurdistan Communities Union were among those who condemned Israel's actions.[94][95][f] Palestinian-American U.S. Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib accused President Biden of supporting this "genocide,"[98] leading to a resolution for censure against her by the Republican caucus, sponsored by Marjorie Taylor Greene.[98] On 4 November, Tlaib released a video in which she directly accused President Biden of supporting "the genocide of the Palestinian people".[99][41] Craig Mokhiber from the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights resigned, criticizing the organization for its response to the 2023 Israel–Hamas war.[100][41] A day after Colombia withdrew its ambassador from Israel, President Gustavo Petro posted on X in Spanish: "It's called genocide, they do it to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza and take it over. The head of the state who carries out this genocide is a criminal against humanity. Their allies cannot talk about democracy."[101][102] Leaders from Turkey,[103] Brazil,[104] and Syria also condemned Israel's actions.[105]
On 9 February 2024, Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan stated that the international community's silence on Israel's actions in Gaza were "complicity in genocide".[106] The Qatari Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the UN Security Council "to take urgent action to prevent the Israeli occupation forces from storming Rafah and committing genocide in" Rafah.[107] On 17 February, Moussa Faki, the president of the African Union, stated, "Gaza is being completely annihilated and its people are deprived of all their rights. We denounce the Israeli operation, which has no parallel in the history of humanity."[108] On 18 February, Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva stated, "What’s happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn’t happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews."[109]
Statements by NGOs and intergovernmental organizations
After Israel started it's military operations against Hamas in October, both Genocide Watch and the Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention issued statements warning of the imminent risk of genocide.[110][111]
On 1 November, the Defence for Children International accused the United States of complicity with Israel's "crime of genocide."[112]
On 2 November 2023, a group of UN special rapporteurs stated, "We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide."[113][41] On 4 November, Pedro Arrojo, UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation, said that based on article 7 of the Rome Statute, which counts "deprivation of access to food or medicine, among others" as a form of extermination, "even if there is no clear intention, the data show that the war is heading towards genocide".[77] Three Palestinian rights groups Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights have filed a lawsuit with the International Criminal Court (ICC), urging the body to investigate Israel for "apartheid" as well as "genocide" and issue arrest warrants for Israeli leaders.[114]
On 16 November, A group of United Nations experts said there was "evidence of increasing genocidal incitement" against Palestinians.[115][116] Jewish Voice for Peace stated: "The Israeli government has declared a genocidal war on the people of Gaza. As an organization that works for a future where Palestinians and Israelis and all people live in equality and freedom, we call on all people of conscience to stop imminent genocide of Palestinians."[117] On 13 December, FIDH stated Israel's actions in Gaza constituted an unfolding genocide.[118]
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor documented evidence of execution committed by Israeli Defense Forces.[119] It submitted the evidence and documentation to the International Criminal Court and the United Nations special rapporteur.[119]
In response to a Times of Israel report on 3 January 2024 that the Israeli government was in talks with the Congolese government to take Palestinian refugees from Gaza,[120] UN special rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal stated, "Forcible transfer of Gazan population is an act of genocide".[121]
On 9 February, ahead of Israel's announced military assault on Rafah, the head of Amnesty International, Agnes Callamard wrote, "Amnesty is reiterating that Palestinians in Gaza are at grave risk of genocide. The international community has an obligation to act to prevent genocide."[122]
Statement by civil servants
On 2 February 2024 it was reported that more than 800 civil servants from the US, UK and the European Union, including many senior officials, have signed an open letter criticising their governments' "public, diplomatic and military support" to Israel as "given without real conditions or accountability", and warning that the policies of their governments on Gaza "are contributing to grave violations of international law, war crimes and even ethnic cleansing or genocide".[123][124][125]
Legal proceedings
International Criminal Court
In 2021, the Pretrial Chamber I of the International Criminal Court confirmed that the court had jurisdiction in its investigation in Palestine.[126] On 12 October 2023, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Ahmad Khan, confirmed that war crimes committed by Israeli nationals in Gaza were within the investigation's jurisdiction.[127]
Center for Constitutional Rights lawsuit
On 13 November 2023, the Center for Constitutional Rights filed a lawsuit against U.S. President Joe Biden, Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin.[128][129] Genocide expert William Schabas supported the lawsuit with a declaration saying he believed there was a "serious risk of genocide" and the U.S. was "in breach of its obligation, under both the 1948 Genocide Convention to which it is a party as well as customary international law, to use its position of influence with the government of Israel and to take the best measures within its power to prevent the crime taking place."[130] On 1 February 2024, a California court agreed that it was "plausible" that Israel's conduct amounted to genocide but said determining U.S. foreign policy was unfortunately outside its jurisdiction; even so it "implore[d] defendants to examine the results of their unflagging support of the military siege against the Palestinians in Gaza".[131]
International Court of Justice application
South Africa has instituted proceedings at the International Court of Justice pursuant to the Genocide Convention, to which both Israel and South Africa are signatories, accusing Israel of committing genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza.[132][11][133] South Africa's president Cyril Ramaphosa compared Israel's actions to apartheid.[134] South Africa's application was brought pursuant to Article IX of the Convention.[11] Several human rights organizations, international organisations, and other nations[g] have supported South Africa in their suit.[168][169]
In an 84-page application filed on 29 December 2023, South Africa alleged that Israel's actions "are genocidal in character because they are intended to bring about the destruction of a substantial part of the Palestinian national, racial and ethnical group."[11][7] South Africa requested that the ICJ issue a binding legal order on an interim basis (i.e., prior to a hearing on the merits of the application), requiring Israel to "immediately suspend its military operations in and against Gaza."[11][7] While adjudication of the merits of the case may take years, such an order could be issued within weeks.[133]
Balkees Jarrah, associate international justice director at Human Rights Watch, notes that the ICJ case is not a prosecution of individuals, and does not involve the International Criminal Court, which is a separate body.[133] Jarrah stated that the case presents an opportunity to "provide clear, definitive answers on the question of whether Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people."[133]
Israeli response
Israeli government spokesman Eylon Levy rejected the allegations "with disgust"[133] and accused South Africa of cooperating with Hamas,[132] describing the actions of South Africa as "blood libel",[170] and of abetting "the modern heirs of the Nazis".[171] On 2 January 2024, Israel decided to appear before the ICJ in response to South Africa's case, despite a prior history of ignoring international tribunals.[7][172] On 13 January, Benjamin Netanyahu stated, "No one will stop us. Not The Hague, not the Axis of Evil, no one."[173]
South Africa's actions found support from some Israeli politicians, including Ofer Cassif.[174]
ICJ ruling
On 26 January 2024, the ICJ issued a preliminary ruling finding that the claims in South Africa's filing were "plausible" and issued an order to Israel requiring them to take all measures within their power to prevent acts of genocide, to prevent and punish incitement to genocide, and to allow basic humanitarian services into Gaza.[12]
Cultural discourse
Various public figures have described the situation in Gaza as a genocide, including Kid Cudi,[175] Macklemore,[176] and Summer Walker.[177] Melissa Barrera was fired from the Scream franchise for reposting an article on social media which accused Israel of genocide.[178] Time referred to Barrera's firing in the context of a "growing divide" within Hollywood regarding the war.[179] Raz Segal's "textbook genocide" verdict has been quoted approvingly by climate activist Greta Thunberg[180] and BBC football presenter Gary Lineker.[181]
In December 2023, Olly Alexander, who will represent the United Kingdom at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024,[182] signed a letter by the LGBT association Voices4London, which accused Israel of committing genocide against the Palestinians.[183] The Israeli government and the Campaign Against Antisemitism (CAA) condemned his views and asked the BBC not to allow him to perform at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024. The BBC rejected Israel's request to cut ties with Alexander over his political views.[184]
Russian-American author, Masha Gessen, when asked if what was happening in Gaza was a genocide said, "I think there are some fine distinctions between genocide and ethnic cleansing and I think that there are valid arguments for using both terms".[185] When pressed further they stated, "it is at the very least ethnic cleansing". This was followed soon after controversy surrounding Gessen's reception of the Hannah Arendt Prize over remarks in a New Yorker article critical of Israeli actions in the strip in which Gessen compared them to an Eastern European ghetto "being liquidated" by the Nazis.[186]
See also
- Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel
- Israeli war crimes
- Racism in Israel
- Palestinian genocide accusation
- War crimes in the Israel–Hamas war
- Human rights violations against Palestinians by Israel
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Footnotes
- ^ Per Gaza Health Ministry and Government Information Office[1]
- ^ See the list of statements here.
- ^ "Remember what Amalek did unto thee by the way as ye came forth out of Egypt; how he met thee by the way, and smote the hindmost of thee, all that were enfeebled in thy rear, when thou wast faint and weary; and he feared not God. Therefore it shall be, when the Lord thy God hath given thee rest from all thine enemies round about, in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it, that thou shalt blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven; thou shalt not forget." (Deuteronomy 25:17–19, Jewish Publication Society of America Version)
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- ^ The Jewish Publication Society of America Version and King James Version give an identical translation for this verse.
- ^ The Kurdistan Communities Union chair Cemîl Bayik urged Israel to change its approach.[96][97]
- ^ South Africa's case has been supported by the following states and international organizations:
- Algeria[135]
- Bangladesh[136]
- Bolivia[137][138]
- Brazil[139][140][141]
- Chile[142]
- Colombia[139][143]
- Comoros[144]
- Cuba[145]
- Djibouti[144]
- Egypt[146]
- Indonesia[147]
- Iran[148]
- Iraq[149]
- Jordan[150]
- Lebanon[151]
- Libya[152]
- Malaysia[153]
- Maldives[154]
- Namibia[136]
- Nicaragua[136]
- Pakistan[155]
- Palestine[136]
- Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic[156]
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines[157]
- Slovenia[158][159]
- Syria[160]
- Turkey[153]
- Venezuela[136][161]
- Zimbabwe[162][163]
- Arab League[164]
- Organisation of Islamic Cooperation[165][166]
- Non-Aligned Movement[167]
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Further reading
- Roundtable in Journal of Genocide Research:
- Levene, Mark (21 January 2024). "Gaza 2023: Words Matter, Lives Matter More". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–7. doi:10.1080/14623528.2024.2301866.
- Samudzi, Zoé (18 January 2024). ""We are Fighting Nazis": Genocidal Fashionings of Gaza(ns) After 7 October". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–9. doi:10.1080/14623528.2024.2305524.
- Shaw, Martin (3 January 2024). "Inescapably Genocidal". Journal of Genocide Research: 1–5. doi:10.1080/14623528.2023.2300555. S2CID 266778978.