What Israel is doing to Gaza does not seem like a genocide in any classical sense, because if it were a genocide, it would be one of the most incompetent genocides in history, killing only perhaps 50,000 people in a year and a half. In Rwanda, some 8,000 to 10,000 people were killed per day. In Pol Pot's Cambodia, a few thousands were killed per day on average.
However, what is happening is Gaza certainly appears to be an ethnic cleansing: the ridding of an ethnic population from a historically occupied piece of land.
Hence there can be ethnic cleansing without genocide, where "genocide" (emphasis on "cide" = killing) involves the extermination of a population, while "ethnic cleansing," being a broader concept that encompasses genocide, such that all genocides are ethnic cleansings but not all ethnic cleansings are genocides, entails just ridding an area of land of a specific population.
Do others agree with this assessment? Are the events in the Gaza strip an ethnic cleansing without genocide, or is there indeed a genocide afoot?
Israel no longer makes any secret of its aim to rid Gaza of Palestinians through deportation to other countries, so that the land can be resettled by Jewish Israelis.