Jews and Arabs Both Claim Genocide as Israel Attacks Hamas in Gaza

Israel says its airstrikes in Gaza are justified retaliation for Hamas’ deadly terror attacks — labeled by some as a pogrom against Jews. Some Arab voices say it’s a pretext for genocide against Palestinians. 

For Context: Israeli authorities said about 1,300 were killed in Hamas’ October 7 attacks; as of Saturday, the Palestinian health ministry said about 2,000 had been killed in Gaza. Nearly one million Palestinians were displaced after Israel warned them to evacuate northern Gaza. However, with Egypt unwilling to open its border to refugees, many Gazans have few options to escape. 

‘They slaughtered entire families’: Two legal experts wrote in the New York Post (Opinion rated Right) that Israel’s siege of Gaza was “a well-known and lawful method of warfare.” Repeating reports that Hamas “decapitated babies in their cribs,” they argued Israel could not allow food, water, and fuel transfers into Gaza because Hamas could exploit them. 

‘Go ahead, you craven enablers’: An Al Jazeera (Lean Left bias) writer framed Israel’s airstrikes in Gaza as a “dystopian-like horror” that fulfilled “Israel’s ‘end game’” to “pulverise every square inch of Gaza and its people.” He also referenced reports that Israel had used white phosphorous “to burn Palestinians to the bone.”