Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, a UN special committee and various UN experts, the International Criminal Court, the International Court of Justice, and a general consensus of genocide scholars say it's a genocide.
If you're concerned with Hamas using innocent people as human shields, you should know that the IDF uses Palestinians as human shields as a matter of policy. It's called the "Mosquito Protocol."
An Israeli soldier and a Palestinian boy tell CBS News they have personal experience of the IDF forcing civilians to check buildings for explosives.
www.cbsnews.com
A former IDF soldier said last month that the practice is institutionalized and almost every IDF platoon has a “a sub-army of slaves." That piece originally appeared in
Haaretz (Israeli media does a much better job covering this than western journalists), but it's behind a paywall so here is a summarized version.
You have no concern about the completely asymmetric nature of the violence perpetrated between the government of Israel and Palestinians as you internalize media Freudian slips (you describe the killing and torturing of Israeli lives, whereas Palestinians simply "die.")
Israel broke the ceasefire and have continued blocking humanitarian aid into the Gaza strip while more atrocities happen every day. Fifteen paramedics were executed and buried in a mass grave with their crushed ambulance last month and hardly anyone in the western news media could be bothered to give a damn.
"Supporting Hamas and the Palestinian people..." The vast majority of people in the U.S. are protesting a genocide that their government is financing and fully backing on behalf of a corrupt ethnostate, and compassion for innocent people being massacred. They're not supporting Hamas. Conflating the two groups as one in the same is just wrong.
You know who has supported Hamas? Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud Party. They propped up Hamas to kneecap the Palestinian Authority and prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state. Hamas as it exists today wouldn't have happened without Israel's support.
I don't even know what to make of this argument. You started off saying that you don't understand why I think Israel is committing a genocide, and then you bring up an example from history of another civilization whose existence was annihilated. What is the purpose of this example? To excuse what Israel is doing? This seems like an odd example to pick for the "Israel is not doing a genocide" argument.
I think you are unironically doing the "Do you condemn Hamas?" meme.