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Technically using white phosphorus in a densely populated area to start fires is just a war crime...
But yeah, Israel's actions fit the modern definition of genocide, because they're treating civilians as enemy combatants and bombing the evacuation routes they told civilians was safe
https://www.britannica.com/topic/genocide
You don't get a free pass to commit genocide because a completely unrelated group tried to do on to your ancestors 80 years ago...
Hamas says IDF bombed it, IDF say it was Hamas. We don't know. Hamas has a ton of reasons to do that, the IDF has essentially only the "they want to commit genocide" side of reasons. But in a very odd way, since they try to avoid killing civilians otherwise, which that sides argues away with "secret genocide", which this obviously would not be. So I tend to assume that it was Hamas.
We do know, though. Israel, officially and as a government policy, has been bombing this area for nearly 80 years. What Hamas did is deplorable but not at all unexpected. Unless you expect them to just be ok with being regularly bombed and with their families executed, I’m not sure how anyone can be surprised by Hamas’ reaction. The number of people dead on the Palestinian side dwarfs the number dead on the Israeli side. It’s not even close no matter how you slice it (men, women, children, total) and, to me, seems more like a little kid who has had enough of their bully picking on them and stabs them in the eye with a pencil. It’s horrible but would it still have happened if they weren’t constantly being bullied? I doubt it.