Intent Through Actions Of A Genocide - Israel Targeting Palestinians of Gaza
August 15, 2025•545 words
“What is happening in Gaza is a genocide because Gaza does not exist anymore. … The level and pace of indiscriminate killing of a huge amount of innocent people, including in what Israel designated as a safe zone, destruction of houses, infrastructures, almost all the hospitals and universities, mass displacement, deliberate famine, the crushing of elites (including the killing of journalists, doctors, professors, civil servants…) and the sweeping dehumanization of Palestinians, create an overall picture of genocide.” - Amos Goldberg, Israeli historian and Holocaust studies professor
“A textbook case of genocide. Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza.” - Raz Segal, genocide studies scholar
“These acts, beyond constituting grave international crimes, follow alarming, documented patterns of genocidal conduct.” - Francesca Albanese, International legal expert UN Special Rapporteur
“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people … I have been teaching classes on genocide for a quarter of a century. I can recognize one when I see one.” - Omer Bartov, historian and genocide scholar
You witness the dark truth that is developing in Gaza, where the destruction of life itself is the cause of the suffering rather than an accident. Genocide scholars and experts in international law are increasingly coming to the conclusion that what is occurring qualifies as genocide under the law after examining the evidence and the statements of those in positions of authority. The official explanation is self-defense against Hamas, but this defence is being strained to the breaking point by the mass slaughter of civilians, the deliberate preventing of humanitarian aid, mass starvation of the whole Palestinian population to such a degree that International journalists and cameraman had to evacuate Gaza due to their own lack of food and water, and the unrelenting destruction via bombing of all civilian infrastructure for 2 years!
Every medical facility has been destroyed, with doctors, nurses, and other health workers slaughtered by Israeli bombs and snipers; schools and universities are in ruins, their teachers, professors, and students slaughtered; and the social structure and support systems of the Palestinian government as well as the professionals such as social workers, psychologists, community aid workers, and police officers who maintained society, have been destroyed and slaughtered.
Here, you can see that the law is a battlefield rather than a shield, that establishing intent is the main obstacle and the moral deciding factor, and that no nation-state or country has ever been found guilty of genocide in modern history. Behind it is the staggering moral and geopolitical weight that comes with calling out a state's actions for what they are, as well as the lengthy evolution of genocide law, which was forged from the ashes of past atrocities.
If the Israeli government is NOT convicted in the international court of criminal Justice for such heinous crimes against humanity, war crimes, and genocide, Israel's genocidal actions will create a path, Israeli government and military actions will tell the rest of the world, all the countries of the world, that any leader in a country can target and slaughter specific groups in their country without international legal accountability or repercussion.
The following link is a must watch and learn from this United Nations International legal scholar...