The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide does not require that perpetrators are successful in reducing the population of the targeted group, only that they "intend to destroy [it], in whole or in part" and take any of five specific categories of action with that intent.

Sorry, but that's super weak logic. That's like saying the KKK are perpetrating a genocide against blacks in the US right now. Or Hamas is perpetrating a genocide against the jews in Israel right now. At some point of failure to execute a plan, it no longer becomes a genocide.

There must be a difference between "genocide" and "attempted genocide" at the very least.

Genocide has a specific meaning

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

The UN Genocide Convention defines it as:

acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.

Reducing the population isn't required. Intent and acts are tested against the legal framework.

Israel could easily kill a hundred times as many people if they wanted to. Yet they don't.

That has nothing to do with what a genocide is predicated on.

> when the population is growing

Well, was. Your chart ends in 2024. It doesn't cite a source, so I'm curious about when in 2024 that number pulls; start (just a few months into the war) or finish?

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/1/gaza-population-fall...

> Population has declined by about 160,000 since Israel’s assault on Gaza began, official Palestinian statistics agency says.

your own link says that 100,000 that left gaza.[0]

4000 deliveries in march of this year. 50000 pregnant woman [1]

50,000 births by july of last year [2]

latest official (by hamas) death toll is 63000 [3]

so, if you go by numbers, population probably grown last year. or over last 2 years

[0] https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/1/1/gaza-population-fall...

[1] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/about-130-children-born...

[2] https://www.savethechildren.net/news/women-self-inducing-lab...

[3] https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/gaza-health-ministry-says...