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it's a genocide; that's the point.
it's a genocide; it's not rational.
Removed for genocide denial.
Article 2 of the UN's Genocide Convention defines it like this:
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml
"Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:
a) Killing members of the group;
b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
Note: "Any of the following acts". Israel is now 5 for 5.
They're going after Hamas and there's been collateral damage, such happens in every war. If they wanted to commit genocide, why wouldn't they just carpet bomb the place instead of sending in leaflets to warn people to leave and even risk the lives of their own troops? By your definition, Hamas is also committing genocide against the Israelis.
Sorry, "collateral damage" wasn't a good enough excuse for the US military and it's definitely not a good enough excuse for the Israeli military either. The US struck a hospital in Kunduz fully aware of what it was and it caused enough of an incident that several coalition nations pulled out of Afghanistan rather than be involved. The US very nearly lost a LOT of its allies over that, and that was AFTER extensive investigation and compensation. Why should we hold Israel, a first-world military by any metric, to a lower standard than how we hold our own army?
If you see a hospital is being used as a military staging area, you don't just level the goddamn place. You don't say "well they COULD HAVE been there" (by the way, that's the exact same justification for the Kunduz airstrike). You don't look at it and say "well collateral damage and all". You rework your plan. You find a way to minimize casualties, whether that's a strike team or simply bypassing that target entirely because it's way too risky to civilians. It's a HOSPITAL, you can't say "you need to evac because we're bombing this place" - there are people who are too sick to move, equipment that CAN'T, and it'd be a huge operation to move everyone in a hospital on 24 hours' notice.
As to "why aren't they just carpet bombing the place", it's because half of the reason for this genocide is lebensraum - you'll notice that there's been a decent number of Israeli real estate firms that have caught flak for selling land in newly-emptied Gaza areas.