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Phillip de Wet | 30 years ago, Rwanda changed genocide. Gaza is on track to change it again

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Palestinian children wait next to a fire as people prepare food for breaking their fast during the holy month of Ramadan amid dramatic starvation and hunger due to Israeli blockade in the besieged Gaza Strip. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)
Palestinian children wait next to a fire as people prepare food for breaking their fast during the holy month of Ramadan amid dramatic starvation and hunger due to Israeli blockade in the besieged Gaza Strip. (Ashraf Amra/Anadolu via Getty Images)

Gaza is different from Rwanda and other suspected genocides since, in the scale of displacement of people within a relatively small area and the siege-like conditions imposed on it, writes Phillip de Wet. 

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