Israel accused of act of genocide over restriction of Gaza water supply

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1. Israeli professors have also called it a genocide:

   >My name is Amos Goldberg. I am an Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies. For nearly 30 years I have researched and taught the Holocaust, genocide and state violence.

   >And I want to tell whoever is willing to listen that what’s happening now in Gaza **is a genocide.**

   >[- Amos Goldberg, Israeli Professor of Holocaust Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem](https://youtu.be/WMwqhdVV5as)

2. I remember when this all came out originally and deranged Zionists spun it saying “what other country is obligated to provide water to the people they’re fighting? Blatant antisemitic double standard”.

   That’s the moment I knew that no matter what Israel did, they wouldn’t care, would actively support and would somehow make themselves the victim.

   There is literally no point in trying to make them see, because they either don’t care or are glad it’s happening.

3. Once again. Genocide has to be done with the intention of destroying a people or making it unable to sustain live for them. We don’t need poof of dead civilians or destroyed infrastructure. It is about a coordinated action.
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4. How long until Israel accuses Human Rights Watch of being Hamas? Like the aid workers and many journalists that they have killed who committed the crime of aiding Palestinians being subjected to genocide.

5. Amnesty international produced the first genocide report, and now Human Rights Watch follows up. I respect the hell out of these organizations, and it’s unconscionable that this will barely receive any media attention in the US.

6. Find the political or military order which outlines and directs the policy to destroy the population. The IDF is a massive bureaucracy. Every bomb dropped requires paperwork. Every unit order is recorded. Where is the evidence of intent? Instead we have a range of actions which all these organizations are using as a substitute to infer intent. But they don’t know the actual intent, which exists in the form of political decisions and military orders, that’s why they have to build out this inference.

   The reality is that it is Israel which supplied, supplies and will continue to supply water and electricity to Gaza and has facilitated over 1.5 million tons of aid, in addition to numerous population protection measures. This very much complicates the entire argument. Unmentioned in this report are the many cases of Palestinian terror groups destroying and attacking border crossings and infrastructure designed to facilitate the transfer of these utilities, sabotaging pipelines to canibalize material for rocket production and ambushing the crews brought in to repair the infrastructure.

   The destruction of solar panels or aquifers may have legitimate military objectives, as these human rights groups have no idea what exactly is powered by these solar panels, and what kind of water infrastructure has been built out to support the endurance of Palestinian subterranean military installations and their combatants. We know Sinwar’s bunker had a shower and running water. There may be other considerations we are not aware of. Deliberately depriving civilians of water and electricity may be a war crime. Doing so to an enemy military is not.

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