Israel has dehumanised Palestinians for decades, eventually leading to the current Gaza genocide, analysts say.

By Simon Speakman Cordall

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Committing a genocide – as a United Nations commission has found Israel has done in Gaza – requires one force to attempt to exterminate another people. But to commit that level of violence, it is necessary to see those being killed as not the same as you, as below human. The population needs to be dehumanised.