http://dx.doi.org/10.59704/3a03525f1be606f7 https://verfassungsblog.de/almost-genocide/ “Almost Genocide” - Accountability and the Emergence of Intent Over Time Mann, Itamar eng 2025-06-15 electronic resource text/html ddc:342 Genocide ICJ Israel-Gaza War Israel-Hamas War South Africa v. Israel Verfassungsblog Verfassungsblog--2366-7044 CC BY-SA 4.0 Genocidal intent does not necessarily pop, prefabricated, out of the perpetrator’s state’s head. It emerges – gradually, often unevenly – as a product of action, omission, emotion, and political opportunity. A war that once had legal justification as defence can thus harden into something else: the destruction of a group as such. This is as true in the specific conditions of Gaza, as it is as a matter of principle.