Jazny
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No, the plan he described is not genocide, but it would be a war crime. It is to reduce aid going in with the intent to motivate the civilian population to evacuate to safety. The idea and intent seems to be to separate civilians from combatants. Genocide would be to stop aid with the intent to kill a significant portion of the people in northern Gaza through starvation.
The plan sucks not only because it's surely a cruel war crime, but also as Hamas have been reported to be shooting at their own civilians to prevent them leaving, and even if they weren't, not all civilians can/will leave, so the proper amount of aid still must go in.
The rest of his post translates to him seeming to be having a meltdown on facebook because the plan is being opposed by humanitarian groups in Israel and not allowed by the supreme court. But the translation is shoddy so it's hard to make out exactly what he's on about. He sounds like a lunatic.
According to Times of Israel, aid trucks are going into Northern Gaza. It's hard to know what's happening. If thousands of Gazans start dying from starvation due to a deliberate reduction or cessation of AID by Israel, it's a sure way of destroying their western alliances. No war is popular, but no starvation campaign could ever be remotely justifiable.
