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I agree that intent makes it tricky. It simply doesn't matter how loud people shout "stop genociding Palestinians!". It definitely doesn't matter how many Palestinians are killed. All that matters is whether the IDF is _intentionally_ (as opposed to incidentally or negligently) attempting to destroy Palestinians, as a group. And to prove intention, we can't say things like, "oh they shot up a hospital full of civilian patients", because the IDF can say, "yeah, because we were trying to kill Hamas and we don't especially care how many civilians are in the way", and that's actually a valid defense against genocide (but not other war crimes, of course).

Instead, we basically have to prove opposite: That there is a pre-conceived official plan to kill all Palestinians, and the fact that some of them are Hamas is of secondary importance. Because the victim doesn't get a "say" in the charge, genocide is conceptually very different from most other crimes.