Six million murdered Jews in the Holocaust. More than 800,000 dead in Rwanda. Around 74,000 reported war casualties in Gaza. Anyone placing these numbers side by side must ask: Is a crime being legally examined here, or is Israel being prejudged with the most serious term in international law? Population data, births, and emigration figures are all part of this debate. They alone do not prove genocide, nor should they be misunderstood as an acquittal. But one thing is clear: the gravest charge in international law does not become true through constant repetition — it must be proven.
While Palestinians and parts of the Western world accuse Israel of genocide in the Gaza Strip, the Palestinian population has actually grown over the past three years of war. During World War II, six million Jews — more than a third of the world’s Jewish population at the time — were systematically exterminated. If this proportion were applied to the approximately two million residents of the Gaza Strip, it would correspond to more than 700,000 deaths. The Hamas-controlled health authorities, however, report around 74,000 war...
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