ABOUT GENOCIDE

The definition of the crime of genocide as contained in Article II of the Genocide Convention was the result of a negotiating process and reflects the compromise reached among United Nations Member States in 1948 at the time of drafting the Convention. Genocide is defined in the same terms as in the Genocide Convention in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article 6), as well as in the statutes of other international and hybrid jurisdictions. 

Definition

Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
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;
      • Women, children, men and the elderly form a group of people, so the population of Gaza. The Israeli practice of conflation, in terms of int. law it is called willfully refusing distinction of civilians and military objectives, have led on November 28, 2024 to a total of more than 43.000 civilians killed.
    • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
      • This is, for example, done by raping and torturing of Palestinian prisoners of war after they were illegally transfered into the territory of the occupying war belligerent, which the Israelis are.
    • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
      • the killing of members of one or more families is evidence.
    • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; 
      • =  the mass killing of young and adult women)

Not the issue in Gaza are:

• • • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

ABOUT ETHNIC CLEANSING

“Ethnic cleansing” has been defined as the attempt to get rid of (through deportation, displacement or even mass killing) members of an unwanted ethnic group in order to establish an ethnically homogenous geographic area. The so-called "Generals' Plan' is a clear example of ethnic cleansing

Though “cleansing” campaigns for ethnic or religious reasons have existed throughout history, the rise of extreme nationalist movements during the 20th century led to an unprecedented level of ethnically motivated brutality, including the Ottoman genocide of Armenians in April 1915; the Nazis campaign against millions of people from tens of minority groups across in countries like the Netherlands, Belgium and France.

However, holocaust has nothing to do with Jews. The word is originally derived from the Koine Greek word holokauston, meaning "a completely (holos) burnt (kaustos) sacrificial offering," or "a burnt sacrifice offered to a god." In Hellenistic religion, gods of the earth and underworld received dark animals, which were offered by night and burnt in full.

The explaining word combination "completely burnt" can also be translated to 'completely destroyed' like the two-days bombing campaign on Dresden, Germany and the total nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, and Nagasaki, all in 1945 by the Americans. The word combination fits also on Leningrad and Rotterdam but by the Nazis.

What Dresden, Leningrad, Rotterdam, Hiroshima and Nagasaki were in the past, Gaza is that today.