India, March 9 -- The diplomatic temperature surrounding Gaza rose sharply this week, as financial pressure inside the United Nations collided with mounting political outrage across the Middle East and the Global South. At the center of the storm lies a widening accusation, increasingly voiced by governments, legal scholars and humanitarian agencies, that Israel's war in Gaza has crossed into what many describe as genocide, an accusation raised by several human rights organizations and referenced in proceedings at the International Court of Justice, and that Western powers, particularly the United States, are shielding it from meaningful accountability.

The debate over what many now call the Gaza genocide has intensified across diplomat...