(ICSPR) Warns of Total Collapse of Services and Humanitarian Conditions, Calls for Formation of International Humanitarian Coalition to Stop Genocide and Protect Civilians

Date: 13 July 2025

Press Release

(ICSPR) Warns of Total Collapse of Services and Humanitarian Conditions, Calls for Formation of International Humanitarian Coalition to Stop Genocide and Protect Civilians

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) strongly condemns the ongoing and escalating genocide and Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip. As of yesterday, 145 Palestinians were martyred, and today, at the time of preparing this statement, the death toll has reached 89, due to a series of brutal, systematic, and indiscriminate airstrikes and fire belts that targeted civilian homes, displaced persons’ tents, and gatherings of civilians across various areas of the Strip.

Israeli occupation forces have committed a series of successive massacres against civilians, the most brutal being the massacre of the Saadallah family in Jabalia Al-Nazla, where 15 family members, including children and women, were killed after their house was bombed without prior warning. ICSPR also documented the killing of 13 civilians, including 6 children, in Al-Nuseirat Camp after an Israeli airstrike on a water distribution point. Additionally, 12 civilians were killed near “Firas Market” in central Gaza City, including Dr. Ahmad Qandeel of Al-Ahli Baptist Hospital and lawyer Abdul Karim Siyam. Dozens of others, including women and children, were injured.

Moreover, ICSPR recorded the martyrdom of 42 individuals and the injury of 200 others who were waiting for food aid at U.S.-Israeli humanitarian aid distribution points over the past two days. The occupation forces also continued bombing displaced persons’ tents in Deir al-Balah, Gaza City near the Islamic University, and Khan Yunis, resulting in 28 additional deaths and dozens of injuries. Airstrikes on Al-Shati Refugee Camp yesterday killed 17 civilians.

The Commission’s documentation shows a steep escalation in genocide crimes by Israeli forces, now causing more than 100 deaths daily. These killings are compounded by the systematic destruction of urban neighborhoods, towns, camps, and essential infrastructure in the Gaza Strip. The situation is further aggravated by forced displacement orders and continued obstruction of humanitarian aid deliveries, which worsen the humanitarian catastrophe, famine, thirst, and disease outbreaks — all indicative of Israel’s clear intent to annihilate the population, destroy property, and dismantle the humanitarian services system as part of an announced policy aimed at erasing the Palestinian cause.

ICSPR expresses its grave concern over repeated warnings from United Nations agencies that Gaza is on the verge of total humanitarian collapse due to:

• Ongoing Israeli obstructions to the entry of humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and fuel, despite UN confirmations that large quantities of aid have been stuck at crossings for 135 days.

• The shutdown of 29 out of 36 hospitals in Gaza; only 7 are partially functioning. The Director of Gaza Hospitals has warned that all hospitals may cease operations completely tomorrow due to lack of fuel, putting thousands of patients and wounded at imminent risk due to the shutdown of ambulances, intensive care units, dialysis departments, maternity wards, and communication systems.

• Malnutrition-related illnesses among children have worsened, with over 5,800 children affected in just one month.

• Water and sewage networks have collapsed, depriving over 2.1 million people of access to safe drinking water and causing waste and pollution to spread in the streets.

• All municipal services have ceased due to total fuel outages, halting water wells, sewage stations, waste collection, and rubble removal, posing grave environmental and public health risks.

ICSPR strongly condemns the international community’s shameful failure to stop the ongoing massacres and crimes against civilians, ensure aid delivery, and implement urgent humanitarian intervention mechanisms. The Commission decries the continued hesitation of global powers to enforce safe humanitarian corridors and impose sanctions on Israel to compel it to end its systematic genocide and starvation campaign, hold perpetrators and their accomplices accountable, and stop forced displacement and ethnic cleansing plans being orchestrated by Israel and the United States. These crimes are facilitated through militarized aid, distribution monopolized by the complicit “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” and deliberate obstruction of international organizations’ operations — all of which indicate a clear intention to complete the genocide, render Gaza uninhabitable, and forcibly displace its population in blatant violation of UN resolutions, international humanitarian law, International Court of Justice measures, and all international human rights standards.

The recent promises by the Israeli occupation to improve the humanitarian situation, as conveyed by EU spokesperson Shadi Othman, remain empty and do not exempt Israel, as the occupying power, from its legal obligations. These obligations include stopping the killings and genocide, opening crossings permanently and unconditionally, and allowing full and free access for international organizations.

Accordingly, ICSPR demands the following:

1. ICSPR calls on the international community to form an international humanitarian coalition for mandatory intervention to stop the genocide and Israeli aggression against Gaza, ensure the opening of safe humanitarian corridors for the flow of aid, medical supplies, and fuel, and prevent the total collapse of humanitarian and health services in Gaza.

2. ICSPR urges the international community and third-party states to stop the U.S.-Israeli criminal aid mechanism, oppose forced displacement plans, and launch investigations into the involvement of American companies and institutions in the killing and starvation of civilians and in supporting or facilitating such crimes.

3. ICSPR calls on people of conscience around the world to continue their public, media, and human rights campaigns to pressure their governments to fulfill their moral and legal duties, impose sanctions and boycotts against Israel, and support legal accountability through international courts.

4. ICSPR urges all states to participate in the UN Conference for the establishment of the independent Palestinian State with Jerusalem as its capital, and to promptly join the Hague Coalition for the Protection and Support of Palestinian Rights, in order to develop practical steps and a clear vision to enable the Palestinian people to exercise their right to self-determination and end the occupation.

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International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights – ICSPR