President Joe Biden condemned by the move by the International Criminal Court to seek arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, saying that there was ā€œno equivalenceā€ between that countryā€™s actions and those of Hamas. Earlier today, the ICC issued a legal report in which a panel of international law experts supported a prosecutorā€™s conclusion that there [ā€¦]
  • FlowVoid@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1Ā·
    1 year ago

    Hamas is not generally considered to have committed genocide, which suggests that the definition of genocide does not depend only on those three factors.

    • TokenBoomer@lemmy.world
      4Ā·
      1 year ago

      And how does that absolve Israel?

      The precursors to genocide are actively unfolding before our eyes. On 10 October, the head of the Israeli armyā€™s Coordinator of Government Activities in the Territories (COGAT), Maj. Gen. Ghassan Alian,Ā addressedĀ a message directly to Gaza residents: ā€œHuman animals must be treated as such. There will be no electricity and no water, there will only be destruction. You wanted hell, you will get hellā€. The same day, Israeli army spokesperson Daniel HagariĀ acknowledgedĀ the wanton and intentionally destructive nature of Israelā€™s bombing campaign in Gaza: ā€œThe emphasis is on damage and not on accuracy.ā€ Raz Segal, the program director of genocide studies at Stockton University, concretely says it is a ā€œtextbook case of genocide.ā€ source