This is not a political position. It is a legal conclusion — drawn from the 1948 Genocide Convention, the findings of the International Court of Justice, an ICC arrest warrant, a UN Commission of Inquiry, and the recorded words of Israeli officials. The evidence does not require interpretation. It requires acknowledgment.
The Ministry of Health figure is a verified floor, not a ceiling — it counts only confirmed bodies. The Max Planck Institute's peer-reviewed estimate places the true Gaza death toll between 100,000 and 126,000. An Israeli military official internally acknowledged approximately 70,000 in January 2026. Every number below is sourced.
The 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide defines genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group. The Convention specifies five prohibited acts. Committing any one of them with the required intent is sufficient for criminal liability. Under Article I, all signatory states have a duty not only to punish genocide after the fact, but to prevent it while it is occurring.
The International Court of Justice found in January 2024 that South Africa's claim of genocide was plausible on its face, and issued binding provisional measures requiring Israel to prevent genocidal acts. Israel has ignored those measures. On September 16, 2025, the UN Commission of Inquiry concluded that Israel has committed four of the five prohibited acts:
The full argument is documented across six linked steps on the next page. Each step stands independently. Together they constitute a legal case that has been accepted as plausible by the world's highest court, confirmed by a UN Commission, endorsed by 86% of the world's genocide scholars, and resulted in criminal charges being filed at the International Criminal Court.
The six steps are: the legal definition of genocide and how it applies; the 17-year blockade as evidence under Article II(c); the context of Hamas and why it does not change the legal analysis; the systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure; what the international legal record shows; and the question of intent — the hardest element to prove, and the one most thoroughly documented in this case.