In the weeks since the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7 and the Israeli bombardment and ground assault on Gaza, both sides have traded accusations of genocide. Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis and took more than 200 hostage, while Israel’s subsequent aerial and ground attacks on Gaza have killed more than 15,000 Palestinians and displaced millions.
In this episode of The Conversation Weekly podcast, we speak to an expert on genocide about the history of the term and what’s needed to prove it under today’s international legal definition.
