The Elder's group of international stateswoman and statesman have for the first time expressed their agony on the Gaza situation by stating: "Today we express our shock and outrage at Israel's deliberate obstruction of the entry of life-saving humanitarian aid into Gaza. What we saw and heard underlines our personal conviction that there is not only an unfolding, human-caused famine in Gaza. There is an unfolding genocide."

According to Britannica, genocide means "deliberate and systematic destruction of a group of people because of their ethnicity, nationality, religion, or race. In contemporary international law the crime of genocide is part of the broader category of 'crimes against humanity', which were defined by the Charter of the International Military Tribunal (Nürnberg Charter). The charter granted the tribunal jurisdiction to indict and try the leaders of the Nazi regime for inhumane acts committed against civilians, as well as for acts of persecution on political, racial, or religious grounds."

Genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is not a recent phenomenon and has been going on since it the territory was occupied by Israel in the Arab-Israeli war of June 1967.

Since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023, more than 68,000 Palestinians, including 15,000 children and several hundred journalists, have been killed by bombing and ground attacks by the Jewish state. Thousands were injured and displaced when Israel occupied Gaza city and other parts of that territory. The recent killing of four Al-Jazeera journalists by Israeli forces in Gaza is highly condemnable. Barring the US, UNSC........

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