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This week police impounded 700 sheep, claiming they had passed through a forbidden zone. To retrieve the animals the shepherds paid 150,000 shekels ($40,000) to the settlers’ regional council

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
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      10 months ago

      While both are heinous, they are separate acts.

      • Ethnic cleansing is the forced removal of a peoples from an area.
      • Genocide is the removal of a peoples entirely either through killing or erasing culture.

      There is generally a large amount of overlap between the two however, which is not helped by the lack of a legal definition of ethnic cleansing. What Israel is currently doing is undoubtedly genocide.