"Two years into the war on Gaza, legal scholars have emphasised the importance of labelling the mass atrocities Israel is committing against Palestinians as a genocide due to the legal and political implications of the determination. Additionally, experts stressed that it is the most accurate description of the Israeli campaign, and even some of Israel's staunchest supporters acknowledged that the country has committed war crimes in Gaza."
"But experts said Israel's brutal assault is more than individual violations of the laws of war; it represents a push to destroy the Palestinians and must be described as what it is a genocide. Former United Nations official Craig Mokhaiber said genocide involves the violation of core rights that apply without exception; it also invokes an international responsibility to stop it."
"The obligations apply to all states, Mokhaiber told Al Jazeera. All states in the world are obliged to use whatever means they have in order to put an end to the genocide and to punish the perpetrators of the genocide and to prevent the genocide in the first instance. He noted that the formal name of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention is the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide."
Two years into the war on Gaza, legal scholars emphasise that labelling Israel's mass atrocities against Palestinians as genocide carries specific legal and political consequences. Experts state that genocide is the most accurate description of the Israeli campaign and note that even some supporters acknowledge war crimes in Gaza. The assault exceeds individual laws-of-war violations and represents a campaign to destroy the Palestinians. Genocide involves violations of core rights that apply without exception and creates an international responsibility to stop, punish perpetrators, and prevent recurrence. The 1948 UN Genocide Convention, adopted by 153 countries including the United States and Israel, obliges states to prevent and punish genocide.
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