Why did Wikipedia cofounder block edits to the 'Gaza genocide' page?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

44% : Amid the widescale destruction, Israel has continued to block humanitarian aid deliveries into the enclave despite a ceasefire.
42% : "The question is, why should the opinions of the largely impartial UN and human rights scholars be weighed equally to the obviously partisan opinions of commentators and governments?
41% : He added that this was "non-negotiable". "A neutral approach would begin with a formulation such as: 'Multiple governments, NGOs, and legal bodies have described or rejected the characterisation of Israel's actions in Gaza as genocide,'" he added.
41% : Moreover, citing the enclave's Health Ministry and the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Save the Children reported that at least 21,000 children have been left permanently disabled as a result of the war.
39% : According to estimates from UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees, as of September 23, about 83 percent of all structures in Gaza City, the enclave's largest city, were damaged, including an "estimated 81,159 housing units".
39% : Moreover, by October 22, World Health Organization Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus wrote on X that there were no longer any fully functioning hospitals in Gaza.
38% : In a statement on the page's discussion section on Sunday when all further editing was blocked, Wales said he had been asked in a "high-profile media interview" about the page, which stated in its first line that the genocide was an "ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war".
36% : You are allowed to disagree with the consensus of the Wikipedia community, but it is patronising to scorn the community as being 'wrong' for following the opinions of the UN, genocide scholars and major human rights organisations," the editor wrote.
34% : In April, Amnesty International also found that Israel was committing a "live-streamed genocide" in Gaza.
33% : In the same month, the International Association of Genocide Scholars, a 500-member body of academics, also passed a resolution that found Israel's policies and actions in Gaza had fulfilled the definition of genocide set out in the 1948 UN Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.
32% : In 2023, the government of South Africa launched a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice, which made an initial ruling in early 2024 that there was enough evidence to show a likelihood of genocide.
29% : However, he continued: "At present, the lede and the overall presentation state, in Wikipedia's voice, that Israel is committing genocide, although that claim is highly contested.
28% : However, Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the findings as "fake" and in a post on X accused the report's authors of "serving as Hamas proxies".
26% : " In September, a UN inquiry found that Israel's war in Gaza amounted to a genocide.
24% : Israel's war in Gaza began after the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on villages and army outposts in southern Israel, which killed 1,139 people and led to the capture of about 200 people who were taken back to Gaza.
18% : Several major international bodies, including the United Nations, have asserted that Israel's assault on Gaza is a genocide.

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