… [I]n the capsized version of international humanitarian law that Israel has developed to fend off accountability, it has institutionalized the deliberate killing of masses of protected members of the group and the systematic destruction of all the infrastructures sustaining and supporting the group’s collective life. This has subjected the inhabitants of Gaza to levels of bodily and mental harm unprecedented in Palestinian history. Mass murder and mutilation have been perpetrated in the context of a state policy of protracted siege and starvation,153 inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group’s destruction, while portraying them as compatible with IHL rules. Israel’s genocidal intent is inscribed in its strategies of humanitarian camouflage. To detect Israel’s genocidal intent, we must decipher how Israel has codified policies of elimination and destruction into a liberal, IHL-mimicking vernacular.
UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, International Court of Justice President: Investigate the Possibility that Israel is Committing the Crime of Genocide Against the Indigenous Palestinian People.