It is a member of the Israeli administration who used the word, a word usually reserved to underline the horrors that the Jewish people faced last century. It has been insisted there was one “Holocaust” in history, but the word was used to threaten the people of Gaza. This would happen to them.
The attack on Gaza was premeditated. It was going to happen with only a pretext needed to justify it. That came when the brittle ceasefire ended and crude rockets were sent from Gaza into Israel.
There have been protests across the globe, including in Tel Aviv, and in the West Bank where a young Palestinian man was shot in the head by an Israeli soldier.