FACT CHECK · GENOCIDE, ICJ/ICC/UN, GAZA DEATH TOLL
Claim: Genocide needs intent to destroy a group
CONTEXTTHE ANSWER
Genocide Convention Art. II: listed acts done with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group. ICJ 2007: ethnic cleansing alone is not genocide.
SOURCE
UN Genocide Convention 1948, Art. II (un.org); ICJ Bosnia v. Serbia, 26 Feb 2007
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