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This is one of the most legally and politically contested questions of the current era, and there is no single authoritative answer—but there has been a major shift in the formal record over the past year. Here's where things stand: Bodies that have found genocide occurred The UN Commission of Inquiry (September 2025): The most significant formal finding came from the UN's Independent Internati

No definitive legal determination has been made by a competent court that Israel's military actions in Gaza since October 7, 2023, constitute genocide. The question remains highly contested among states, legal experts, human rights organizations, scholars, and international bodies. Genocide is a specific crime under the 1948 UN Genocide Convention (to which Israel is a party), requiring both actus