No. Genocide means killing all or a part of a population because of their genes. I agree.
The civilians in Gaza were told to leave and virtually all of the civilian deaths have occured in and around Gaza City where there is 800 tunnel shafts and hundreds of miles of tunnels from which a militant enemy that regularly kills women and children is operating.
The tunnels and numbers of Hamas are just and valid military targets. That is why Gaza City is being bombed. Not because of anything to do with the genome of the people living there.
If Israel wanted to eliminate Palestinians, it could carpet bomb all of Gaza and all of the West Bank and kill every soul there within a matter of hours. But instead the numbers of civilian casualties are decreasing every day.
The New York times just published an article today called The Decline of Deaths in Gaza.
It makes several salient points:
The daily death tolls out of Gaza have reduced by half and continue to fall as they have been for weeks;
Israel said two weeks ago that it was shifting strategy to a more targeted approach;
Hamas is still launching rocket barages on Israel from Gaza City;
Many Hamas fighters fled South to another massive tunnel network under the second most populated area of Gaza, Khan Younis.
Some civilian deaths are likely to continue for a while to come as long as Hamas is still hiding underneath people’s homes and using women and children as human shields.
If Israel has genocidal intentions, shouldn’t the killing apparatus be getting more efficient?
At the current rate, it would take 50 years before there are no more Palestinians. That doesn’t sound very genocidal to me; not with the numbers dropping off as they have. Clearly Israel has changed it’s strategy.