Genocide against Indigenous people in the region was key to claims made in the U.S. case of ''[[Beanal v. Freeport]]'', one of the first lawsuits where Indigenous people outside the U.S. petitioned to get a ruling against a multinational corporation for environmental destruction outside of the U.S. While the petitioner, an Indigenous leader, claimed that the mining company [[Freeport-McMoRan]] had committed genocide through environmental destruction which "resulted in the purposeful, deliberate, contrived and planned demise of a culture of indigenous people", the court found that genocide pertains only to the destruction of an Indigenous people and did not apply to the destruction of the culture of Indigenous people; however, the court did leave open the opportunity for the petitioners to amend their filings with an additional claim.{{sfn|Khokhryakova|1998|p=475}}
=== Israel ===
{{Main article|Palestinian genocide accusation}}
Throughout the extended [[Israeli–Palestinian conflict|Israeli-Palestinian conflict]], the [[Israel|State of Israel]] has been accused of committing a genocide against Palestinians. Events such as the [[Nakba]], the [[Sabra and Shatila massacre]], the [[blockade of the Gaza Strip]], the [[2014 Gaza War]], and the 2023 [[Israel–Hamas war]] have been used as examples of evidence for a genocide committed by Israel.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 2016 |title=The Genocide of the Palestinian People: An International Law and Human Rights Perspective |url=https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/10/Background%20on%20the%20term%20genocide%20in%20Israel%20Palestine%20Context.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231102093049/https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2016/10/Background%20on%20the%20term%20genocide%20in%20Israel%20Palestine%20Context.pdf |archive-date=2023-11-02 |access-date=2023-10-12 |website=Center for Constitutional Rights}}</ref> Statements made by Israeli officials have also been described by genocide scholars as dehumanizing the population of Gaza and used as evidence for "genocidal intent."<ref name="Bartov">{{cite news |last=Bartov |first=Omer |date=10 November 2023 |title=Opinion {{!}} What I Believe as a Historian of Genocide |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231218055737/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/10/opinion/israel-gaza-genocide-war.html |archive-date=18 December 2023 |access-date=16 December 2023 |work=[[The New York Times]] |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>
