• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    ethnic cleansing

    the mass expulsion and killing of one ethnic or religious group in an area by another ethnic or religious group in that area

    genocide

    U.N. Definition

    In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    1. Killing members of the group;
    2. Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
    3. Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
    4. Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
    5. Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
    • skozzii@lemmy.ca
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      When this whole conflict started I definetely had sympathy for Isreal, it would suck to be under rocket and terrorist attacks frequently.

      However this response is so massively disproportioned and going on for so long I don’t think it could be described as anything else but a total genocide.

      And American is providing the weapons … disgusting.

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        it would suck to be under rocket and terrorist attacks frequently.

        Two years and you still don’t see who the aggressor is?

        In 2023 alone before October 7, Israel killed 242 Palestinians which includes 47 children. Israel killed 47 Palestinian children in 2023 alone before October 7.

        The Gaza ghetto uprising might have been gruesome and unpalatable, but it’s Gaza that was defending itself against Israel, not the other way around.

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        While it might have been a response initially, it was probably quickly seen as a perfect opportunity to finally set long-hedged extinction plans in motion.

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          It’s kettling at a national level. Virtually imprison innocent people for long enough, in conditions bad enough, and it’s no surprise that they lash out. Likud was waiting for it and used it as the pretext for the extermination of the Palestinian people.