• jordanlund@lemmy.worldM
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    8 months ago

    It should, and would be part of Israel’s attempted genocide based on the current UN definition:

    https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

    "Article II

    In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    Killing members of the group;

    Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;

    Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;

    Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;

    Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."

    Artificially generated famine would cover bullet points 1-4. “Rescuing the kids” (if it comes to that) would be #5.