What are your views on the Israel Gaza conflict ?

I can summarize it in 8 words:
  1. Genocide.
  2. Urbicide.
  3. Domicide.
  4. Politicide.
  5. Ecocide.
  6. Educide.
  7. Scholasticide.
  8. Culturcide.
Let’s delve more into the definition of each word, and why such terms are applied to the Israeli war on the Palestinians in Gaza.
  • Genocide, killing a people:
Genocide is the “deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group”.
It was coined by Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin – “geno”, the Greek word for race or tribe, and “-cide”, Latin for killing – to describe the Nazi murder of Jews and other groups during the Holocaust.
The term “genocide” appeared early on in this war – in October, more than 800 scholars signed a letter warning of “potential genocide in Gaza”.
In a March report, the United Nations special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, said there were:

“grounds to believe that the threshold indicating the commission of the crime of genocide… has been met”.

Analysts and rights monitors point to statements from senior Israeli officials, as well as soldiers fighting in Gaza, advocating for the destruction of Gaza and displacement of its population.
South Africa has taken Israel to the International Court of Justice, accusing it of committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza – and 12 other countries have backed the case.
“Genocide” is a legal term that has been increasingly used to describe what Israel is doing in Gaza as it kills more people, a figure nearing 40,000.
An aerial view of the burial of 111 Palestinians who were killed due to Israeli attacks to mass graves in Khan Yunis, Gaza on November 22, 2023.
Bodies of unidentified Palestinians are laid out for burial to make room in al-Shifa Hospital morgue for more Palestinians killed.
Palestinians gather near bodies lined up for identification after they were unearthed from a mass grave found in the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip.
Several mass graves have been found at the Nasser and Al-Shifa hospitals, some of them still to be exhumed.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization says 80 percent of the population in the Gaza Strip was already food insecure prior to the start of the attacks on October 7. Nearly half the population of 2.3 million people relied on food assistance from the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA).
Before October 7, about 500 trucks on average were allowed into Gaza each day.
Fuel supplies are still not allowed to enter Gaza, which is seriously affecting the hospitals still functioning and risking the lives of thousands.
The WHO says women and children are bearing the burden of the bombardment on Gaza’s health facilities and the lack of supplies. Women are delivering babies wherever they can, unable to access healthcare facilities to deliver in a sanitary environment, and doctors are having to perform Caesarean sections without anaesthesia.
At least 180 women are giving birth each day. Maternal and neonatal deaths have escalated due to the lack of critical care.
Overcrowded UNRWA shelters are reporting cases of acute respiratory infections, diarrhoea and chickenpox. With facilities exceeding capacity, people are now living on the streets. The WHO has reported at least 22,500 cases of acute respiratory infections and 12,000 cases of diarrhoea, which can be deadly in children suffering from dehydration and lack of food.
Doctors have had to use vinegar as disinfectants – and screws and sewing needles for surgeries.
In Gaza, over 50 Palestinians including children and elderly have starved to death as a result of what international bodies say is Israel’s use of hunger as a weapon of war.
Palestinian children suffering from malnutrition receive treatment at a healthcare center, in Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, March 4, 2024.
Yazan Kafarneh, a 9 year old Palestinian boy after dying of starvation.
F., age 6, experiencing malnutrition, receives treatment after being evacuated from the northern Gaza Strip to the IMC field hospital in Rafah, Gaza, March 24, 2024.
N. age 11, is being treated for malnutrition and severe dehydration at Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahia, Gaza, March 25, 2024.
  • Urbicide, killing a city:
Coined in the 1960s, urbicide describes the deliberate destruction of a city and became widely used in the wake of the Serbian siege of Sarajevo between 1992 and 1996.
Russian attacks on Grozny, Chechnya in 2001, Israel’s destruction of Beirut’s southern suburbs in 2006, Bashar al-Assad’s government destroying the Syrian cities of Homs and east Aleppo between 2012 and 2017, ISIL’s (ISIS) campaign in Mosul, Iraq, and Russia attacking Mariupol and Bucha in Ukraine have been described as urbicide.
Between October 7 and May 31, Israel damaged or destroyed about 55 percent (or 137,297 structures) in Gaza, according to a report by the UN Satellite Centre (UNOSAT).
As these structures are the makings of a city – homes, schools, hospitals, cultural sites, religious sites and infrastructure related to water, electricity and transport – some researchers deem Israel’s actions to be the killing of Gaza’s cities, or urbicide.
  • Domicide, killing home:
Domicide is an extension of urbicide and means the deliberate and systematic destruction of living spaces, targeting intimate places of residence so that any form of stability, physical or emotional, is replaced with a feeling of constant flux.
Of everything destroyed by Israel since October, Gaza’s housing has been hit worst. UNOSAT counted 135,142 damaged housing units, mostly in Gaza City, Khan Younis and northern Gaza.
With homes no longer habitable and their sense of connection destroyed, some Palestinians will feel they have no choice but to leave Gaza.
Despite this being a forced migration, it would in a sense allow Israeli officials to deny any responsibility for Palestinians leaving their homeland.
The UN says restoring Gaza to pre-conflict levels would take decades of labour-intensive clearance of rubble, unexploded munitions and landmines.
Hamad City in Khan Younis before and after the Israeli attacks on the neighbourhood.
Palestinians gather at the site of Israeli strikes on houses in Bureij in the central Gaza Strip,November 2, 2023.
Destroyed buildings after an Israeli airstrike on the El-Remal aera in Gaza City on October 9, 2023.
A Palestinian boy sitting amid the rubble of destroyed buildings in Gaza City.
  • Politicide, killing representation
Politicide is when a powerful actor works to politically execute the public and private spheres of their enemy.
The term first appeared in the 1970s to describe the destruction of groups of people who share a political identity.
It is also used to refer to the killing of political leaders and later grew to include the destruction of structures that allow political entities to exist.
Politicide “was used… to describe Israeli policy towards the Palestinians on the eve of and during the second Intifada in 2000, when Israel’s clear objective was to destroy the conditions for the mere existence of a Palestinian state”, Ziad Majed, a professor of Middle East studies and international relations at the American University of Paris, wrote in Orient XXI in December.
  • Ecocide, killing the environment:
Ecocide – destroying the environment – was coined in 1970 by biology professor Walter W Galston, protesting the US use of the toxic herbicide Agent Orange in Vietnam to destroy plant growth the Viet Cong hid under.
Israel’s munitions have had a serious impact on the climate and ecosystems in Gaza where Israeli attacks have contaminated soil and groundwater with munitions like white phosphorus.
Military vehicles like this Israeli tank in the Gaza Strip contribute to the effects of climate change from fuel emissions they release, to land they flatten.
Airbursts of Israeli artillery-fired white phosphorus fall over the Gaza city port, October 11, 2023.
Israel has destroyed more than half of Gaza’s farmland, according to an Al Jazeera investigation.
While this makes vital resources like water dangerous to access or consume, the full extent of the damage is still not known.
Before and after satellite images show vehicle tracks over the once-fertile regions of Beit Lahiya:
Source: Planet Labs PBC | Before: June 2023:
Source: Planet Labs PBC | After: May 2024:
Defying Israel’s ongoing attacks, farmers like Youssef Abu Rabieh figured out ways to grow food between bombed-out buildings - makeshift gardens of repurposed containers.
Palestinian farmer Youssef Abu Rabieh launched his agricultural initiative despite ongoing Israeli attacks in Beit Lahiya, on April 28, 2024.
South of Gaza City is Zeitoun, a neighbourhood named after the Arabic word for olive. Before and after satellite images show southern Zeitoun where nearly every last bit of greenery has been wiped out. Source: Planet Labs PBC | Before: June 2023:
Source: Planet Labs PBC | After: May 2024:
During one short pause in fighting from November 22 to December 1, Palestinian farmers ran to harvest their olives and extract oil, because they do not know any other way to live, and because they needed the harvest. Olive cultivation is crucial in the Palestinian economy and is used for everything from oil to table olives to soap.
Palestinian farmers work to press the olive crop for oil during the one-week pause in Gaza City, November 27, 2023.
The satellite images below show the widespread destruction of farms, roads and homes in eastern Maghazi in the centre of Deir el-Balah. Source: Planet Labs PBC | Before: November 2023:
Source: Planet Labs PBC | After: May 2024:
The satellite images below show how Israeli forces have decimated Khan Younis’s orchards and farmlands. Source: Planet Labs PBC | Before: November 2023:
Source: Planet Labs PBC | After: May 2024:
Before and after satellite imagery shows how Israeli forces have flattened vital fields in eastern Rafah. Source: Planet Labs PBC | Before: May 2024:
Source: Planet Labs PBC | After: June 2024:
In 2022, Gaza's farmers exported $44.6m worth of produce, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture , but Israeli restrictions limited sales to a few neighbouring countries.
Among Gaza’s exports in 2022 by trade value, one-third of them (32 percent) were strawberries, 28 percent tomatoes and 15 percent cucumbers.
Since October 7, many fishermen have been unable to access the sea, while others risk their lives to bring food in, severely impacting Gaza's ability to feed itself.
Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes on fishing boats at Gaza Port on October 12, 2023.
The satellite images below show the extensive damage to Gaza’s main fishing port in Gaza City where almost all boats have been destroyed, along with significant damage to the road along the main pier. Source: Planet Labs PBC | Before: June 2023:
Source: Planet Labs PBC | After: June 2024:
In February, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) assessed the agricultural and livestock damage across Gaza.
They found significant damage to:
  1. 626 wells.
  2. 307 home barns.
  3. 235 chicken farms.
  4. 203 sheep farms.
  5. 119 animal shelters.
In addition, they estimated that 27 percent - 339 out of 1,277 hectares (3,156 acres) - of Gaza’s greenhouses were damaged by Israel’s assault.
Experts say military hardware and bombs have damaged Gaza's fertile soil for many years.
“There will be years of destruction because of the material used in the explosives and phosphorus bombs used there, this will affect the land and water in the long term,” agricultural consultant Saad Dagher said.
Palestinians cover their fishing boats with sand to protect them from phosphorus bombs dropped by Israel, December 17, 2023.
In 2021, 97 percent of Gaza’s water was not suitable for human consumption after more than a decade of Israeli blockade and multiple wars.
Israel continued attacking infrastructure and blocking aid, rendering desalination and wastewater treatment plants non-functional.
The World Health Organization (WHO) says between 50 and 100 litres of water per person per day are needed – but it has put the average daily allocation in Gaza at a mere 3 litres for all daily needs, including drinking and hygiene.
A lack of water affects the body by first impacting the kidneys, and eventually the heart. Dehydration sets in fast for children and can often be deadly. A person can experience light-headedness and a racing pulse as the heart has to pump faster to maintain oxygen.
Water makes up about 60 percent of the human body. Dehydration can kill an infant in a stressful environment within hours, and a healthy adult in two to four days.
By last November, 130,000 cubic metres (34.3 million gallons) of untreated sewage were being dumped into the Mediterranean Sea each day, according to the Norwegian Refugee Council.
Even the air in Gaza became dangerous during Israel’s war – smokey and polluted by Israeli bombs or fires made by displaced people out of whatever scrap they found.
Researchers and experts at environmental organisations say the long-term damage has led to calls that Israel’s actions be called ecocide.
  • Educide and scholasticide, killing knowledge:
Educide and scholasticide are the systematic destruction of an education system and its institutions.
Educide, in particular, is the systematic killing of academics and intellectuals, or the genocide of education, according to British academic Rula Alousi.
The term was first used in 2009 to describe the killing of Iraqi educational personnel after the 2003 US invasion.
UN experts have warned of scholasticide in Gaza as at least 90 percent of the territory’s schools have been damaged or destroyed.
Israel has killed over 100 Scholars and Academics.
All 12 universities and higher education institutions in Gaza have been destroyed, while thousands of students and teachers have been killed.
More than 600,000 students have been deprived of schooling since October 7.
Al-Azhar University, Gaza, before and after Israeli shelling.
The Islamic University of Gaza, before and after Israeli shelling.
Al-Aqsa university before and after Israeli shelling.
  • Culturcide, killing a sense of self:
Culturcide is the destruction of a culture, especially one unique to a specific ethnic, political, religious, or social group.
Israel has destroyed or damaged about 200 historic cultural sites in Gaza.
Archaeological sites, historic mosques housing rare manuscripts, one of the world’s oldest Christian monasteries and an ancient harbour dating to 800 BCE are among the cultural casualties.
South Africa included wiping out Gaza’s cultural heritage in its suit against Israel at the ICJ.
“Israel has damaged and destroyed numerous centres of Palestinian learning and culture,” it said in its application to the World Court.
You just have reached the end of my answer here on Quora. I hope that Israel’s genocidal campaign towards Palestinians living in Gaza come to an end, and for justice to occur in the holy land to find peace.