Eighty-six per cent of voting members of the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars (IAGS) supported a resolution declaring that Israel's policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide under article II of the 1948 UN Genocide Convention. The three-page resolution calls on Israel to immediately cease acts identified as genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity, listing deliberate attacks on civilians, starvation, denial of humanitarian aid and essentials, sexual and reproductive violence, and forced displacement. The resolution acknowledged the 7 October Hamas-led attack as international crimes while concluding that the government of Israel engaged in systematic, widespread crimes. IAGS president Melanie O'Brien described the resolution as a definitive expert statement, and IAGS was founded in 1994 with a diverse membership that has adopted previous genocide identifications.
The three-page resolution passed by the body calls on Israel to immediately cease all acts that constitute genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity against Palestinians in Gaza, including deliberate attacks against and killing of civilians including children; starvation; deprivation of humanitarian aid, water, fuel, and other items essential to the survival of the population; sexual and reproductive violence; and forced displacement of the population.
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). Melanie O'Brien, the IAGS president and a professor of international law at the University of Western Australia, said the resolution was a definitive statement from experts in the field of genocide studies that what is going on on the ground in Gaza is genocide.
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