I'm no kind of expert in #InternationaLaw, but I've just come across the crime of #extermination, which is a #CrimeAgainstHumanity, one with a lower legal threshold to prove than #genocide.
I wonder, as a matter of communication strategy, why this is hasn't been used more frequently as a widespread description for the criminal acts of the #IDF and #Israeli citizens participating in the blockade of #Gaza. Is it simply because it is not as well known (and so has less emotional resonance) as genocide?
Under international law, there is also the crime of #starvation, which is distinct as well, which has its own standards.
Though it wasn't until the 1970s that starvation was accepted by the US and its western allies as a crime against humanity. Even after the horrors of #WWII (including especially the Siege of #Leningrad, the most destructive and fatal siege in human history), the US and its allies still wanted to maintain the right to use starvation as a weapon of war.
So it seems that the same events and actions could potentially be prosecuted under murder, extermination, starvation or genocide, with each crime requiring somewhat different levels and types of evidence to prove.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extermination_(crime)