Genocide was first recognised as a crime under international law in 1946 by the United Nations General Assembly (A/RES/96-I). It was codified as an independent crime in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (the Genocide Convention). The Convention has been ratified by 153 States (as of April 2022). The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has repeatedly stated that the Convention embodies principles that are part of general customary international law. This means that whether or not States have ratified the Genocide Convention, they are all bound as a matter of law by the principle that genocide is a crime prohibited under international law. The ICJ has also stated that the prohibition of genocide is a peremptory norm of international law (or ius cogens) and consequently, no derogation from it is allowed. Genocide is defined in the same terms as in the Genocide Convention in the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (Article 6), as well as in the statutes of other international and hybrid jurisdictions. |
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
- Category: domicide
20240408 - news - Khan Younis ‘smells like death’ as Palestinians return to devastated homes
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
- Category: domicide
20240329 - unknown place, Gaza - Total destruction by Israelis
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
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20240309 - unknown place, Northern Gaza - Mass destruction by Israelis seen from a Jordanian C-130 Hercules
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
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20240309 - news - AJPlus summarizes destruction by Israelis
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
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20240307 - Beit Hanoun, Northern Gaza - Completely destroyed part of the neighborhood
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
- Category: domicide
20240215 - unknown place, Gaza - Video from unknown date shows widespread destruction by Israelis
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
- Category: domicide
20240116 - unknown place, Gaza - View over an destroyed part of a city
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
- Category: domicide
20231230 - unknown place, Gaza - Short drone footage
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- Parent Category: Erasing habitability
- Category: domicide
20231227 - Al-Maghazi refugees camp, Central Gaza