The International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) voted that Israel's policies and actions in Gaza fulfill the 1948 Genocide Convention definition of genocide. Eighty-six percent of IAGS's roughly 500 members supported the resolution. The 1948 Genocide Convention enumerates acts including killing members of a group, causing serious bodily or mental harm, inflicting conditions to bring about physical destruction, preventing births, and forcibly transferring children. More than 63,500 people have been killed and over 160,000 wounded in Gaza. During the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led attack, 1,139 were killed and about 200 taken captive. Israel has destroyed 90 percent of housing infrastructure in Gaza.
The IAGS, a 500-member body of academics founded in 1994, is the world's leading association of genocide scholars. Eighty-six percent of IAGS members voted in favour of a resolution stating that Israel's policies and actions in Gaza fulfil the definition of genocide set out in the 1948 United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
The 1948 Genocide Convention defines genocide as: Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group: Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
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