Wed Sep 17 04:01:27 UTC 2025: **News Article: Analysts Link Dehumanization of Palestinians to Gaza Conflict, Alleging Genocide**
**Gaza City -** A growing chorus of analysts and human rights organizations are drawing a direct line between decades of dehumanization of Palestinians by Israel and the ongoing conflict in Gaza, with some alleging the situation amounts to genocide.
According to a United Nations commission, the dehumanization of Palestinians is seen as a process beginning long before the recent war and is deeply embedded in Israeli society. The dehumanization process involves portraying Palestinians as less than human, which the commission believes is crucial for a genocide to occur.
Navi Pillay, head of the UN commission, stated, “When I look at the facts in the Rwandan genocide, it’s very, very similar to this. You dehumanize your victims. They’re animals, and so therefore, without conscience, you can kill them.”
Critics point to instances such as Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz bragging that “Gaza is burning” and a poll showing that 76% of Jewish Israelis believe that none of Gaza’s pre-war population were innocent.
Yair Dvir, spokesperson for B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, stated the recent attacks from Hamas, that led to the deaths of over 1,139 Israelis, appeared to come “from nowhere” due to ignorance of the daily lives of Palestinians.
Orly Noy, journalist and editor of the Israeli magazine Local Call, stated, “A society does not just become genocidal overnight. The conditions have to be in place before that.”
B’Tselem, along with Physicians for Human Rights-Israel, issued a report concluding that Israel’s war on Gaza constitutes genocide, documenting historical injustices against Palestinians, including the Nakba, to cement the supremacy of the Jewish group.
Yehouda Shenhav-Shahrabani, an Israeli sociologist, linked current attitudes to historical views of Palestine as “a land without a people,” leading to discussions about the ethnic cleansing of Gaza and the West Bank, as people see the displacement of Palestinians as inevitable.
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