Public Occurrences August 22, 2025

Genocide, as defined by the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, is the intentional destruction of a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group, in whole or in part. This includes acts like killing members of the group, causing them serious bodily or mental harm, deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about physical destruction, imposing measures to prevent births, and forcibly transferring children of the group. 

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Deliberate infliction of conditions of life:
This could involve starvation, denial of medical care, or other actions that would lead to the physical destruction of the group.

Gaza City and Surrounding Areas Are Officially Under Famine, Monitors Say

At least half a million people in the enclave were facing the most severe conditions measured by U.N.-backed international experts: starvation, acute malnutrition and death.

Integrated Food Security Phase Classification...said in a report published on Friday that a combination of several factors had tipped Gaza from a hunger crisis into famine: the intensifying conflict, stringent Israeli restrictions on aid, the collapse of health care and sanitation systems, the destruction of local agriculture and the growing number of times people have been forced to flee for new shelters.

The report, which described the famine as man-made, said that it can be “halted and reversed.”

“The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading,"

Israeli Genocide