Does Israel commit genocide in Israel–Hamas war?

Disclaimer: Getting the debate right about this highly controversial/emotionally charged topic is difficult, given it is written by non-professionals and is not reviewed by professionals.

Pro

 * The commitment of genocide is plausible per preliminary ruling of International Court of Justice (ICJ), as per Allegations of genocide in the 2023 Israeli attack on Gaza.
 * Mere plausibility is far removed from establishing the truth of the accusation.
 * Arguably, the rather indiscriminate large-scale bombing of civilian infrastructure creates conditions for large-scale loss of life by starvation, etc., and it is hard to see how this is not part of the intent.
 * If Egypt allows Gazans as refugees into its territory (an if) and if international aid can be provided there, starvation should be avoidable. Therefore, starvation is not necessary outcome.
 * Then, it is at least ethnic cleansing, creating conditions that make it hard for Gazans to return to their homes after the conflict.

Con

 * Genocide is a technical term and cannot be decided using lay understanding and analysis. The motion should therefore be dismissed, not because it is necessarily false, but rather because it is not fit for the kind of lay analysis attempted in a Wikidebate.
 * This proposition assumes that all wikidebate participants in the past, present and future cannot possibly complete "expert technical analysis", which is not necessarily true.
 * Israel is attacking Hamas, not civilians; the civilians are collateral damage.
 * Expanding on the above, if Israel was attacking civilians at large scale with the intent to decimate the Gaza population as much as possible, there would be much huger loss of Gazan life. Even with the Hamas-stated loss of 35,562 Gazan lives (May 21) (possibly inaccurate, and some of them are likely members of Hamas rather than civilians), that amounts to 1.5% of the Gaza population of 2,375,259.
 * In so far as the definition of genocide allows destruction of the group in part, even such a relatively low percentage can fit the bill.
 * If all it took to bar the genocide claim was to claim that the people killed make up a small percentage of the targeted population, ICJ would have never declared genocide to be plausible.
 * Expanding on the above, as per Times of Israel, the combatant-to-civilian ratio in the war is 13:17, a witness to aim to protect civilian life (the ratio is made using Hamas-supplied total casualties and Israel-supplied Hamas combatant casualties).
 * The source of the ratio is not neutral/independent.