I beg to disagree.
Literally, it means the killing of a "gens", more broadly, a people.
The #UN has defined it as:
"Article II
In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group,
as such:
Killing members of the group;
Causing serious bodily or mental harm...
...to members of the group;
Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."
Now, whether "Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in...
...whole or in part;" will apply, depends on what happens on 03/10/23. If the refugees have no (real) escape route and a great numer are "sqeezed" to death, being cornered I'd see a serious reason to charge the #Netanyahu Government with #genocide.
Digression:
Just by #kidnapping #Ukrainian children, the #Russian regime really IS committing #genocide.
In my view, IF #Palestinians were not to be allowed back into #Gaza en...
...real soon, I'd argue that the #Netanyahu regime COULD be charged with #EthnicCleansing:
"...As ethnic cleansing has not been recognized as an independent crime under international law, there is no precise definition of this concept or the exact acts to be qualified as ethnic cleansing. A United Nations Commission of Experts mandated to look into violations of international humanitarian...
https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/ethnic-cleansing.shtml
....law committed in the territory of the former #Yugoslavia defined ethnic cleansing in its interim report S/25274 as "… rendering an area ethnically homogeneous by using force or intimidation to remove persons of given groups from the area.
" In its final report S/1994/674, the same Commission described ethnic cleansing as “…
a purposeful policy designed by one ethnic or religious group to remove by...
...violent and terror-inspiring means the civilian population of another ethnic or religious group from certain geographic areas.”
This could constitute the following crimes:
"The Commission of Experts added that these practices can “… constitute crimes against humanity
and can be assimilated to specific
war crimes.
Furthermore, such acts could also fall within the meaning of the Genocide Convention.”
I agree,...