The word 'genocide' is now being used among Israelis

Openly discussing genocide, I would argue, is a path, not a barrier, to an acknowledgment by Israelis of what has taken place in the past two years in Gaza, writes Paul Kearns

Alaa Hassanein carries the body of his four-year-old niece, Sara Hassanein, who was killed in an Israeli military strike on a school outside Al-Shifa Hospital, in Gaza City last week. Since the October 7 massacre, over 62,000 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip. This includes almost 18,500 children. Photo: AP/Abdel Kareem Hana

It's official. Last Friday, the UN-backed IPC report was stark. There is “a man-made famine in Gaza…babies are dying of hunger, too weak to cry or eat”. 

Some 130,000 children under the age of five in the north of Gaza risk death due to malnutrition. But is it genocide?