{"id":24221,"date":"2025-09-20T06:08:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=24221"},"modified":"2025-09-20T06:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T06:08:39","slug":"dehumanisation-how-israel-is-able-to-commit-its-genocide-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=24221","title":{"rendered":"Dehumanisation: How Israel is able to commit its genocide in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, analysts say.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A man carries the body of three-year-old Palestinian child Nour Abu Ouda, killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza Strip, at Al-Aqsa Hospital in Deir el-Balah, Sunday, September 14, 2025 [Abdel Kareem Hana\/AP Photo]<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/a>Committing a genocide \u2013 as a United Nations commission\u00a0has found Israel has done in Gaza<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 requires one force to attempt to exterminate another people. But to commit that level of violence, it is necessary to see those being killed as not the same as you, as below human. The population needs to be dehumanised.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s the conclusion reached by Navi Pillay, the head of the UN commission responsible for saying that Israel is committing a genocide, joining a growing list of bodies that have come to the same conclusion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen I look at the facts in the Rwandan genocide, it\u2019s very, very similar to this. You dehumanise your victims. They\u2019re animals, and so therefore, without conscience, you can kill them,\u201d said Pillay, a former International Criminal Court judge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For many observers within Israel, that process of dehumanisation \u2013  where the value of Palestinian life is negligible \u2013  didn\u2019t begin with Israel\u2019s war on Gaza, but reaches back throughout the country\u2019s short history and continues to inform the attitude of its public and politicians today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genocidal war<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Israel is currently pummelling Gaza City, knowing that tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians remain there, in a region where famine has been declared. The Israeli objective appears to be to force civilians to leave so that the city, once the hub of Palestinian life in Gaza, can be destroyed, making it easier to fight Hamas, and showcasing some sort of victory to the Israeli public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The suffering of the people of Gaza City is rarely considered in public statements from Israeli officials. Bombing them to force them to move has become normalised and even celebrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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