"What was once dismissed as an exaggeration shouted at protests is now being echoed by some of the world's leading human rights organisations, United Nations experts and genocide scholars. The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the UN Commission of Inquiry and countless local and international NGOs have all concluded that Israel's assault on Gaza fulfils the definition of genocide under the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the treaty that legally defines and prohibits genocide."
"The charge is the gravest that can be levelled against a state, but if the response is only words, then the words themselves risk becoming complicit. If Israel has already crossed the line into genocide, does it have any incentive to stop? Or does the naming of the crime without consequences actually embolden it to accelerate the killing, knowing that the world will watch, condemn, and ultimately do nothing?"
Leading experts and institutions agree a genocide is under way in Gaza. The International Association of Genocide Scholars, the UN Commission of Inquiry and local and international NGOs have concluded that Israel's assault on Gaza fulfils the 1948 Genocide Convention's definition. Gaza is being destroyed, its people systematically targeted, and intent to erase Palestinian life is being documented. Recognition without meaningful action risks becoming complicit and may embolden perpetrators to accelerate killing. Historical precedent shows naming genocide alone did not stop massacres — in Rwanda in 1994 identification occurred within weeks yet no intervention came until a military advance ended the slaughter. Meaningful action is required to stop the carnage.
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