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Almost 90% of leading academics on subject back resolution stating that Israel’s actions meet legal definition An overwhelming majority of members of the world’s leading genocide scholars’ association has backed a resolution stating that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of the crime. Eighty-six percent of those who voted in the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported the motion. The resolution states that “Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948).” Continue reading...

<article data-history-node-id="424970" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-admit-deliberately-killing-unarmed-aid-seekers" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israeli-soldiers-admit-deliberately-killing-unarmed-aid-seekers" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israeli soldiers admit to deliberately killing unarmed aid seekers</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p><a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israeli</a>&nbsp;troops have admitted to deliberately shooting and killing unarmed&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/palestine" target="_blank">Palestinians</a>&nbsp;waiting for aid in the Gaza Strip, following direct orders from their superiors.</p> <p>According to soldiers and officers who spoke to&nbsp;<a href="https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000" target="_blank">Haaretz</a>, commanders instructed them to open fire on people seeking food at aid distribution points despite knowing they posed no threat.</p> <p>One soldier described the distribution centres as a "killing field".</p> <p>"Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day,"&nbsp;the soldier told Haaretz.</p> <h3>Read more: <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-gaza-soldier-admit-deliberately-killing-unarmed-aid-seekers">Gaza: Israeli soldiers admit to deliberately killing unarmed aid seekers</a></h3> <div alt="An Israeli soldier in a military vehicle near the Gaza boundary, 20 May 2025 (AFP/Jack Guez)" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="58906e9b-5210-4f72-bae6-51c2ae12db6d" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/images-story/000_47E64CH%20%283%29.jpg" width="2000" height="1124" alt="An Israeli soldier in a military vehicle near the Gaza boundary, 20 May 2025 (AFP/Jack Guez)" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <h3>&nbsp;</h3> </div> </div> </article>

<article data-history-node-id="423504" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-committing-genocide-gaza-says-top-legal-scholar-melanie-obrien" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/israel-committing-genocide-gaza-says-top-legal-scholar-melanie-obrien" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says top legal scholar Melanie O'Brien</span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>The head of the world's largest academic association on genocide has declared&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/countries/israel" target="_blank">Israel</a>'s actions in Gaza a&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/explainers/meaning-definition-what-genocide-israel-gaza" target="_blank">genocide</a>.</p> <p>Dr Melanie O'Brien, president of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS), outlined her legal opinion in an interview with Middle East Eye, ahead of an upcoming episode of the Expert Witness podcast featuring leading genocide experts.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p>"Applying the legal definitions of genocide as found in the Genocide Convention and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, I would determine that what is happening in Gaza constitutes genocide," O'Brien said.</p> <p>"The definition involves acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group. These include killing or imposing conditions meant to bring about physical destruction," she explained, referring to the definition of genocide under the Genocide Convention.&nbsp;</p> <p>"What we are witnessing fits within that legal definition."</p> <h3>Read more:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-committing-genocide-gaza-says-top-legal-scholar-melanie-obrien">Israel committing genocide in Gaza, says top legal scholar Melanie O'Brien</a></h3> <figure role="group" class="media-block"> <div class="group-inner"> <div alt="Melanie O’Brien" data-embed-button="file_browser" data-entity-embed-display="image:image" data-entity-embed-display-settings="{" data-entity-type="file" data-entity-uuid="69cfb43d-1720-4d66-b82a-655fd7a82de4" data-langcode="en" class="embedded-entity"> <img src="https://www.middleeasteye.net/sites/default/files/Melanie-OBrien-supplied-mee.jpeg" width="1400" height="788" alt="Melanie O’Brien" typeof="foaf:Image" fetchpriority="high"> </div> <figcaption>Dr Melanie O’Brien told Middle East Eye that 'genocide is a process, not a single event' (Supplied)</figcaption> </div> </figure> <p><span style="background: url(&quot;https://www.middleeasteye.net/modules/contrib/ckeditor/vendor/plugins/widget/images/handle.png&quot;) rgba(220, 220, 220, 0.5); top: -15px; left: 0px;"><img height="15" role="presentation" src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAPABAP///wAAACH5BAEKAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAICRAEAOw==" title="Click and drag to move" width="15" loading="lazy"></span></p> <section>&nbsp;</section> </div> </div> </article>

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