You, nor I have the credentialing to be able to call something a genocide with any authority. I’ll leave it up to the phd-experts to call it.

“The world's leading association of genocide scholars has declared that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza.”

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cde3eyzdr63o

"Destroying all the buildings" is already a genocide on its own. In the Genocide Convention this would fall under "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part".

Does this help you sleep? Rationalization is a coping mechanism.

The Nazis first asked the Jewish people to leave and worked with Zionists to provide incentives for them to leave. 60k left under that law to British Palestine. It wasn't until much later in the war did they start doing mass genocide. It's not like they started with mechanized murder. It starts as ethnic cleansing and ends in genocide.

So don't be proud of "only 50k" and destroying everyones home. Israel is still at committing genocide and things can get much worse. It's not like it's over. 50k is the beginning unless Israel is stopped.

It's frankly disgusting to argue over definitions and words when people are still dieing daily.

This "lawyer" mentality is so dumb.