The long-lasting Israeli-Palestine conflict is giving reasonable grounds to consider Israeli actions a genocide in Gaza

Zusmanovich Ulyana for – The Times of Russia

On the 27th of May, Israeli air strike hit the Rafah tent town claiming lives of 67 people, spokesman of the Palestine president, scarified the assault as «premediated slaughter, overstepping all limits. » Claiming that «the committed by Israeli occupation forces disastrous bloodshed is a challenge for all resolutions of the United Nations Security Force, in particular the clean-cut and clear decree of the Court of the International Justice, prescribing Israel to curtail military offense on the city of Rafah and furnish protection for the Palestinian nation» .

The Israel’s Defense Forces, on their part, convey that a missile rocket site was cleared, from which previously eight missiles were launched on Israel – Kerem Shalom crossing into Gaza, killing three of Israeli soldiers. Farther, claiming to strike a HAMAS complex, devastating two of HAMAS’ high standing officials, responsible for the west coast of the Jordan.

One day drawn out from the chronicles of the Israeli-Palestine conflict portray its dubious-equivocate character unseeming the perplexity bounded to the verdict regarding the made lawsuit on the 29th of December 2023 by RSA appealing to the United Nations International Court of Justice against Israel, condemning of committing a genocide against Israel.

The historical conflict lasting over 75 years, the another and unprecedently heated round given by HAMAS with the attack on the 7th of October 2023 and Israel Defense Army’s counter attack gaining sheer scope with the launch of the operation «Iron Swords», spreading missile attacks on civilian areas, is wreathing with new forms,

There are “reasonable grounds” to believe Israel is “committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinians as a group in Gaza,”

• the United Nations’ Special Rapporteur on human rights in the Palestinian territories (27th of March 2024)

Co-founder of the Human Rights Watch Aryeh Neier, only once labeled a crime as a genocide with Saddam Hussein’s attempt to eliminate the Kurds in 1988. He wrote in the NYRB:

“I thought Israel had a right to retaliate against Hamas, and I thought Israel had a right to try to incapacitate Hamas so that it would never be able to do anything like that again. But I was disturbed by some of the actions of Israel, by the use of very large weapons, 2,000 pounds bombs which are utterly inappropriate in a crowded urban area. I am now persuaded that Israel is engaged in genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. What has changed my mind is its sustained policy of obstructing the movement of humanitarian assistance into the territory.”

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Farther evolution of the what seemed an obtuse conflict is given by the UN General Assembly’s pressing on Security Council to give ‘favourable consideration’ to full Palestinian membership.