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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.If Israel had the intent to destroy the Palestinian people, how is it that ~80% of the buildings in Gaza are damaged or destroyed, yet ~3.5% of the population (including Hamas and other terrorists and collaborators) has been killed? Wouldn't you expect to see a number closer to the amount of the buildings that were damaged or destroyed?
Yes, a lot of civilians have died in Gaza since the war has begun. But this is the result of urban warfare in a highly-dense populated area where the fighters are fighting from civilian areas with civilian clothing.
If Israel didn't evacuate civilians before they bombed, the number of casualties would be much higher. So if Israel's intent would be to increase civilian death, they wouldn't bother doing so -- that would be considered a genocide.
It is not a bizarre definition, it is an international treaty signed and ratified by Israel and the USA and 152 other states are parties. The same definition is found in 18 USC 1091 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1091
Also: what if I kill a single Palestinian? Is that a genocide?
Do you consider Hamas a genocidal group since their founding charter mentions killing Jews worldwide? Why not?
https://www.pcbs.gov.ps/en/post-details/?postId=23319
Also, for anyone wondering, forcefully displacing people from their homes under threat of violence is genocide too.