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In the late 1930s, following the rise of Nazism and burgeoning antisemitism in Europe, Polish-Jewish lawyer Raphael Lemkin fled to the United States, arriving there in 1941. As a lecturer of criminal law at Yale University, he researched cases in history in which one people deliberately set out to annihilate another. It was he who coined the term “genocide,” an amalgam of the Latin words genos (race, people) and cide (act of killing).

Now a new, war-related concept and term may enter the list of crimes against humanity. “Domicide” (“domestic” or “domicile,” plus “cide”) refers to the deliberate and systematic destruction of homes and basic infrastructure in a manner that renders them uninhabitable. This term repeatedly been mentioned recently at academic conferences, hearings held by international organizations and in the media. Israel, according to scholars and other observers, is wreaking devastating destruction upon Gaza and its residents, and as such is guilty of crimes against humanity.

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2024-01-04/ty-article-magazine/.highlight/amid-israeli-destruction-in-gaza-a-new-crime-against-humanity-emerges-domicide/0000018c-d585-d751-ad8d-ffa5965e0000