Allegations Of Genocide In The 2023 Hamas Attack On Israel
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Allegations Of Genocide In The 2023 Hamas Attack On Israel
Allegations have been made that the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel constituted a genocidal massacre against Israelis. In the course of the assault, Palestinian militants attacked communities, a music festival, and military bases in the region of southern Israel known as the Gaza envelope. The attack, which has been described as a "rampage of atrocities", resulted in the deaths of 1,163 people, two thirds of whom were civilians. Various legal experts and genocide studies scholars cite a multitude of reasonings for their allegation of genocide, including claims that victims were targeted for their Israeli-Jewish identity, that Hamas still adheres to the antisemitic language of its founding charter, or that the alleged intent to destroy the Israeli people " in part" fits the legal definition of genocide. Comparisons of the attack to the Holocaust have been made. Criticisms against the allegation include citing the taking of hostages as proof that there was no genocidal intent, ...
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Be'eri Massacre
On 7 October 2023, in the opening attacks of the 2023 Hamas-led attack on Israel, Hamas militants carried out a massacre at Be'eri, an Israeli kibbutz near the Gaza Strip. Around 70 Hamas militants of the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Brigades, al-Qassam Brigades, Nuseirat Battalion, along with Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, DFLP militants had attacked the kibbutz and at least 130 people were killed in the attack, including women (such as peace activist Vivian Silver), children, toddlers, and one infant, claiming the lives of 10% of the farming community's residents. Dozens of homes were also burned down. This incident occurred concurrently with a series of other massacres and military engagements in multiple neighbouring Israeli communities, including Netiv HaAsara attack, Netiv haAsara, Kfar Aza massacre, Kfar Aza, and the Re'im music festival massacre, Rei'm music festival massacre. Several newspapers described the massacre as an act of terrorism. A few early clai ...
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The ''Journal of Genocide Research'' is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering studies of genocide. Established in 1999, for the first six years it was not peer-reviewed. Since December 2005, it is the official journal of the International Network of Genocide Scholars. Previous editors have been Henry R. Huttenbach, Dominik J. Schaller, and Jürgen Zimmerer. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Political Science Abstracts, Historical Abstracts, and America: History and Life. As of 2021, the journal is published by Routledge and the editor-in-chief is A. Dirk Moses (University of Sydney). Israel Charny Israel W. Charny (born 1931) is an Israeli psychologist and genocide scholar. He is the editor of two-volume ''Encyclopedia of Genocide'', and executive director of the Institute on the Holocaust and Genocide in Jerusalem. Background Israel ... published an article titled "Holocaust Minimization, Anti-Israel Themes, and Antisemitism: Bias at the Journal of ...
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