Date: 14-1-2024
Statement and Facts Message to the International Community
The International Commission “Hashd “100 Days of Genocidal War and Aggression, Palestinians Pay the Price for the Absence of Justice from their Lives and Properties. Let International Inaction and Immunity for the Israeli Occupation State and Leaders Cease.
The on-the-ground facts, documented and monitored by the International Gathering Organization for Supporting the Rights of the Palestinian People (Gathering), in collaboration with relevant institutions, confirm that civilian populations are within the target range of the artillery, naval vessels, and warplanes of the occupying Israeli forces. The Israeli forces deliberately carried out more than five thousand missile attacks using excessive, intense, disproportionate, systematic, and indiscriminate force, aiming to kill and injure the largest number of Palestinian civilians.
The toll of the ongoing genocidal war on the Gaza Strip by the occupying forces has reached the extermination of 100,000 citizens, including both martyrs and wounded, constituting 5% of the population of the Gaza Strip. Israeli forces have killed more than 24,000 Palestinian civilians, including 10,700 children, 7,400 women, 1,970 elderly individuals, 326 medical and paramedical staff, 45 civil defense workers, 147 workers at the UN Relief and Works Agency, 57 lawyers, and 117 journalists. Additionally, more than 8,000 remain missing under the rubble of homes destroyed by the Israeli forces above their inhabitants’ heads. The Israeli aggression and the shortage of fuel for the civil defense apparatus have hindered the recovery of their bodies, turning the surroundings of destroyed homes into graveyards for their residents. Decomposed bodies are also scattered in the streets in the areas where ground incursions occurred in the Strip. The Israeli Medical Forensic Authority had to grant the Ministry of Health permission to bury hundreds of decomposed bodies found in mass graves without identifying the martyrs.
Moreover, more than 60,000 civilian residents were injured, with 75% of these injuries affecting children and women, according to specialized medical sources. Eight thousand cases require travel for treatment outside the Gaza Strip due to the lack of necessary medical care within the Strip. This is a result of the destruction and closure of 30 hospitals in the northern Gaza Strip, the overcrowding of hospitals in the southern Gaza Strip with the injured and sick, the shortage of doctors and their exhaustion, and the unavailability of medical equipment and supplies due to the limited medical aid to the Strip.
The conscience of the world has been shaken and horrified by the repeated acts of genocide committed by the Israeli military authorities during their continuous aggression on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023. They committed genocide against more than 2,000 Palestinian families by destroying their homes over their heads. This unequivocally establishes that war crimes and acts of genocide have been committed against these families with the knowledge, will, planning, and execution of the leaders and officials of the occupation state, necessitating legal accountability for the state and leaders of the Israeli occupation.
The peak of grave violations of human rights in the Gaza Strip was reached when the Israeli military forces issued evacuation orders to the residents of the northern Gaza Strip and the city of Gaza, numbering nearly one and a half million citizens. Subsequently, mass massacres and systematic destruction of all means of life in those places ensued to ensure the forced displacement of the population. Later on, the Israeli forces issued more evacuation orders to civilian residents in the central and southern governorates of the Gaza Strip, bringing the number of forcibly displaced people to more than 2 million. Among them, 400,000 displaced people are in the northern Gaza Strip, while the remaining displaced individuals are in the southern Gaza Strip, where nearly 1.5 million people are crowded together, living mostly in shelters provided by the UN Relief and Works Agency. The rest are dispersed in the homes of relatives and friends and in camps containing thousands of tents set up by the displaced themselves and at their own expense, as well as in camps established by humanitarian organizations.
The conscience and morality of the world have been alarmed by the heinous crimes committed by the Israeli military authorities, and it is imperative for the international community to take immediate action to end the genocide and aggression against the Palestinian people. The failure to hold the Israeli state and leaders accountable for their actions only perpetuates the cycle of violence and injustice. The time for international intervention is now to stop the suffering of the Palestinian people and to ensure a just and lasting peace in the region.
the heinous crimes committed within the context of other crimes, intentionally targeting civilians, especially children and women, in addition to the invasion of UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency) shelters in the northern Gaza Strip and in the central, Khan Yunis regions, where thousands of citizens were arrested, stripped, tortured, and subjected to various forms of field executions on the streets and in shelters across Gaza.
