ISRAEL’S UNFOLDING CRIME OF GENOCIDE IN GAZA FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
What is genocide? Is there a legal finding for genocide? Genocide refers to specific actions—including killing, causing serious bodily or mental harm, or deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of the group in whole or in part—taken with the intention of destroying, in whole or in part, the group targeted, on ethnic, racial, religious, or national grounds. There is a plausible and credible case that Israel is committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people in the occupied Gaza Strip. In their public statements and speeches, Israeli officials have used dehumanizing language, describing Palestinians in Gaza as “human animals.” They have also been unequivocal in the goal of maximum harm, stating that the “emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy” using “fire of a magnitude that the enemy has not known.” Since Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu declared “war” following the killing of an estimated 1,400 Israelis on October 7, 2023, over 9,000 Palestinians in Gaza have been killed and 1.4 of the 2.3 million Palestinians living there have been internally displaced. How is the United States complicit in this genocide? The United States… Read More
