The raw statistics speak to the scale of the suffering in two places, separated by decades.Israel has killed more than 58,000 Palestinians in Gaza since October 2023, many of them women and children, and injured more than 138,000.
With constant bombardment, man-made famine, and tactics like declaring a safe zone and then bombing it, experts say what Israel is doing amounts to genocide.
In the Bosnian War from 1992 to 1995, Bosnian Serb forces killed some 68,000 Bosniaks, rounding people up based on ethnicity.
On July 11, 1995, Serb fighters rounded up and killed more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in a United Nations-declared “safe zone” in the town of Srebrenica.
That was the only legally recognised genocide of the Bosnian War.
On the 30th anniversary of the Srebrenica genocide and as Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza continues, Al Jazeera spoke to Iva Vukusic, assistant professor in international history at Utrecht University, and Nimer Sultany, Palestinian legal scholar at the University of London, about the parallels between the two.
Safe zones that aren’t
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said his country intends to round up some 600,000 people who are in what Israel once designated as a “safe zone” – and subsequently violated several times – and push them into a “concentration zone” in Rafah.
People would only be allowed to leave this “concentration zone” if they were “voluntarily emigrating” from Gaza.
“We have seen …