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  • Intent to destroy isn’t evident. The IDF took ample precautions against civilian deaths.

    We don’t know how many combatants are among the 40,000. The only number available is the IDF estimate of 15,000. Hamas and other militant groups only publish their martyred combatants a while after hostilities have concluded and international attention has withdrawn.

    A combatant to civilian death ratio of 1:3 would be fairly good for a war in a dense urban environment against a deeply entrenched and fortified enemy.

    Also is you compared the destruction of buildings to the number of dead, it’s obvious that mostly empty buildings were destroyed.

    Culture destroyed. Homes taken. Many killed.

    Palestinian culture is very much alive in Israel and Palestine.

    If you want to go over the last 100 years of this conflict, pay attention to the number of deaths. October 7th 2023 had the most deaths in a single day of the whole conflict. The ensuing Gaza war then followed up with likely more deaths in a year, than over the whole conflict combined including Arab armies.

    Lots of terrible things happened before this war, but they don’t amount to genocide.

    What’s been happening here is a watering down of the crime of genocide, just to demonize Israel.



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    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide#International_law_scholars

    the German legal scholar Stefan Talmon told Süddeutsche Zeitung that Israel was not committing genocide in Gaza, but conceded that Israel had committed war crimes.[356] International law professor Sabine Swoboda also argued that although Israel may have broken international law, it had not committed genocide because its intent was not genocidal.[357] In January 2024, lawyer Eugene Kontorovich called the genocide allegations “absolutely absurd” and a “farce”, and called for Israel to immediately end its acceptance of the ICJ’s jurisdiction in response to South Africa’s case.[358] In an August 2024 op-ed in the New York Daily News, lawyer Eli Rosenbaum wrote that Israel’s actions in Gaza are not genocidal

    The article has of course other voices as well.

    The article also cites people with „danger of genocide“ or war crimes. Neither of which is actually genocide.

    frankly anyone who has seen what Israel is doing

    For something to qualify as genocide, the special intent „dolus specialis“ is a key requirement. Killing people is not sufficient.

    An issue is that Amnesty International and Ireland expanded the definition of genocide for the case of Gaza specifically.

    Regardless if it qualifies as genocide or not, the situation is terrible.



  • mainstream media will completely lie to you

    Mainstream media doesn’t care to research thoroughly and rarely have journalists who actually understand the topic they’re reporting on. It’s not lies, just superficial sloppy work mostly.

    Journalists rarely dig through OSINT themselves. They will ask an Possibly biased expert who actually reads and is able to interpret OSINT. Then the journalist will only understand half and misunderstand another part. The cite some quotes from the expert that then make for an article with a clickbaity headline. Only if you‘re very lucky the journalist will review the OST themselves or even show the source directly in their reporting. It’s surprisingly rare that journalists speak the language of the country they’re reporting about.

    Not all is great with OSINT, as it’s full of selection bias, rumors, unconfirmed information, and people with agendas.