https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/18/a-visual-guide...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jan/18/a-visual-guide...
These facts are all very counterindicative of Israels ambition for genocide. Fairly contrary to what the defacto government of Gaza espouses.
What convinces me that this can be called a genocide, besides the incredibly high death toll and the utter and almost complete destruction Israel has wreaked on Gaza, are the many explicitly genocidal statements by Israeli leaders, generals, soldiers, news broadcasters, cultural figures, etc. The way Israelis talk about Palestinians is so blatantly genocidal that it's impossible to interpret the mass killing they've carried out as anything other than deliberate.
Do you think these incidents did and do not happen?
Israel won't have security as long as it continues to oppress the Palestinians. I have no sympathy for their arguments about their own security as long as they continue to steal Palestinian land and kill tens of thousands of Palestinians.
Also, the same can be said about Israelis. If Palestine stopped firing rockets at them, there would be less incidents. Although in that case it would probably be true.
If you want to have factual indications for the ambitions for war or genocide, look at the school curriculum in both countries.
Its plan is to either confine the Palestinians into little South-Africa-style Bantustans (sorry, "Emirates," to use the preferred phrase in Israel), or to expel them altogether.
Gaza itself has been sealed off and bombed and invaded over and over again. It's a giant ghetto.
You don't need to look at the school curricula. Just look at what Israelis at all levels are saying, from the soldiers on the ground up all the way up to the Prime Minister and President. The amount of genocidal rhetoric is shocking, especially coming from a country that makes the Holocaust such a central part of its raison d'être.