Why did the Association of Genocide Scholars say that the Israeli war on Gaza is genocide? | Israeli conflict news

The leading genocide of genocide in the world Declare The Israeli war on Gaza meets the legal definition of genocide.

The International Association for Geninium Scientists (IGS) approved a decision on Monday, adding to choir From countries, Rights groups And other bodies that believe that Israel is committing the genocide in Gaza.

Israel killed more than 6,500 people and wounded more than 160,000 in its war on Gaza. During the Hamas -led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, 1139 people were killed, and about 200 people were transported.

Here is everything you need to know about the advertisement and the body it makes.

What has been announced, and who announced that?

Igs, an academic body of 500 members founded in 1994, is the world’s leading association for genocide in the world.

The eighty -six percent of Igs members voted in favor of a decision stating that the policies and Israel in Gaza fulfill the definition of the genocide stipulated at the 1948 United Nations Conference to prevent and punish the crime of genocide.

“This is a final statement from experts in the field of genocide that what is happening on the ground in Gaza is genocide,” Melanie Oberin, head of international law at West Australia University, told Reuters on Monday.

How is genocide defined under international law?

The 1948 genocide agreement defines genocide as: “any of the following actions committed with the intention of destruction, in whole or in part, a national, racial, racist or religious group:

The group members were killed; Causing serious physical or mental harm to the group members; It deliberately draws from the circumstances of the calculated life group to achieve its fully or partial material destruction; Imposing measures aimed at preventing births within the group; The group’s children by force to another group. “

What did Igs built their decision on?

In short, Igs relied on its decision on the United Nations Collective Extermination Agreement.

It also announced that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity as specified in international humanitarian law and the Rome Law of the International Criminal Court.”

Among the Israeli crimes referred to is “random and intentional attacks against civilians and civil infrastructure (hospitals, homes, commercial buildings, etc.) in Gaza.”

Igs admitted many Israel’s actions against the Palestinians, including:

• Tell,
• Arbitrary detention,
• Sexual and reproductive violence,
• Blessed attacks on medical professionals, humanitarian relief workers and journalists,
• Denial of people of food, water and medicine intentionally
• The displacement of 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,
• Destroy more than 90 percent of housing infrastructure,
• Killing all generations’ entire generations, and
• Distiner or injure more than 50,000 children.

Igs also referred to the comments made by Israeli officials and a plan put forward by US President Donald Trump for the first time and supported by the Israeli government to expel the Palestinians from Gaza as additional evidence of meeting the genocide standards.

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How is this decision important?

The decision may not pay anyone to work uniquely, but it adds to the choir of internal organizations, human rights groups and experts who announce that the Israeli war on Gaza is a genocide.

As the leading body in the world of genocide scholars, Igs’s decision has already received a lot of attention from the main media.

However, the United Nations and many Western countries say they will only consider it in the genocide if the court rules the matter.

The United Nations Supreme Court is studying the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the South African case, which says Israel is committing genocide, but the decision is not expected before 2027.

How did Israel respond to the advertisement?

The Israeli government described a “disgraceful” decision.

“Igs have put a historic precedent – for the first time,” Israeli Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

What position did the United Nations take in this case?

The United Nations has repeatedly condemned the actions of Israel in Gaza, but it did not officially say it was ancient.

Last week, hundreds of United Nations employees wrote to the High Commissioner for Human Rights Volcker Turk, and they asked him to explicitly describe it.

Leave this yet.

“A sign of an event as a collective genocide that reaches a specialized legal authority,” UN spokesman Stephen Dujarrik told Reuters.

The United Nations, the United Nations Committee, the United Nations Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices that affect the human rights of the Palestinian people and other Arabs in the occupied territories Find “Israel’s war methods agree with genocide” until November 2024.

A month ago, in October 2024, United Nations experts called on the global community to “study their relations and avoid being colluded with this crime committed by Israel on the Palestinian people in Gaza.” Adding“It is important to name genocide.”

What is the situation in Gaza?

Terrible.

Israel has killed more than 63,000 people since October 2023, and about two million Palestinians have been displaced.

Many of the Gaza Strip are in ruin after repeated bombings by the Israeli army, and Israel has now summoned thousands of reserve soldiers to obtain a new attack in Gaza City.

On August 29, the United Nations said that the decline to a “huge famine” began in Gaza.

Israel also Targeting journalistsIn what the freedom of the media says is an attempt to suppress the reality on the ground in Gaza from reaching the outside world.