Palestinian genocide allegations

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Since its foundation in 1948, Israel has been accused of carrying out genocide against Palestinians during the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Israel's actions since 2023 during the Gaza war have led to increasing numbers of international legal scholars concluding that Israel is committing genocide. Debate continues over whether Israel's treatment of Palestinians prior to 2023—since the 1948 Nakba—also constitutes genocide, and whether such actions are continuous or limited to specific periods or events. This treatment has also been characterised as "slow-motion genocide", as well as a corollary or expression of settler colonialism, ethnic cleansing, and indigenous land theft. Those who believe Israel's actions constitute genocide point to the entrenched anti-Palestinian racism, anti-Arab racism, Islamophobia and genocidal rhetoric in Zionism and in Israeli society, and point to events such as the Nakba, the Sabra and Shatila massacre, the blockade of the Gaza Strip, the 2014 Gaza War, and...

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