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Definition, application, and contested cases. The treaty text, the dolus specialis standard, ICJ jurisprudence, UN Commission of Inquiry findings, and the live scholarly debates on what does and does not meet the legal definition.
The ICJ's 26 Jan 2024 order found a plausible RIGHT of Palestinians to be safe from genocide — not a plausible case of genocide. The court's own former president, Joan Donoghue, said so on the BBC. On 19 May 2026 the Guardian fixed the same error a fifth time.
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No. The genocide charge leans on a death count from the Hamas-run Gaza health ministry. It ignores the war Hamas started on October 7, and the human shields Hamas hides behind. The 1948 Convention's intent test is not met — and the count was Hamas's, not Israel's.
