The Occupation Employs Famine and Aid as Weapons in a War of Extermination, Driving Gaza Toward Chaos and Civil Conflict to Enforce a Displacement Plan

Date: July 19, 2025

Press Release

The Occupation Employs Famine and Aid as Weapons in a War of Extermination, Driving Gaza Toward Chaos and Civil Conflict to Enforce a Displacement Plan

The International Commission to Support Palestinian People’s Rights (ICSPR) expresses deep concern over the escalating attempts by the Israeli occupation forces to push the Gaza Strip into catastrophic famine, chaos, insecurity, and internal conflict. These actions form part of a systematic policy that constitutes an extension of the ongoing genocide being waged by the occupation for over 650 days, targeting Palestinians — their people, land, and society in all its components.

It is now evident that the occupation’s objectives go far beyond the deliberate targeting of civilians, military destruction of the Strip, and extermination through hunger, thirst, and disease. It also includes efforts to dismantle the Palestinian social fabric, promote chaos, drive internal collapse, and undermine the foundations of civil peace and stability — all as part of an overarching crime of genocide. The ultimate goal is to render the Gaza Strip an uninhabitable disaster zone, paving the way for forced displacement schemes — one of the occupation’s clearly declared colonial objectives.

The Occupation Manufactures Chaos as a Parallel Weapon of War and Extermination

ICSPR highlights that the occupation continues to deepen humanitarian and internal crises in Gaza through a set of policies aimed at sowing disorder, internal strife, and social fragmentation, including:

• Imposing collective punishment and blockade on the Strip, including full closure of crossings — the most recent of which has been in place since March 2, 2025 — and banning entry of food, water, fuel, medicine, and humanitarian aid, leading to a real and catastrophic famine for the entire population.

• Controlling the quality and quantity of aid, often allowing the entry of suspicious or unfit materials, posing public health risks and exacerbating disorder. The occupation has banned international agencies and replaced them with the criminal U.S.-Israeli aid mechanism.

• Deliberate destruction of economic, agricultural, and service infrastructure, including health, educational, and municipal facilities — with 27 out of 35 hospitals out of service since November 2023, and the rest operating with extremely limited electricity due to fuel shortages.

• Direct, repeated targeting of civilians and humanitarian workers, aiming to cripple any grassroots effort to manage the humanitarian catastrophe. Since October 7, more than 58,765 people have been killed, including over 18,000 children and 13,000 women.

• Creating scarcity and economic inflation by full control of resources, causing price spikes, black market proliferation, and monopolies in the absence of oversight or intervention by local authorities.

• Fueling public resentment and psychological warfare through occupation army spokespersons appearing on Arab media channels, Israeli media, and cyber units conducting propaganda, disinformation, incitement, and demonization campaigns designed to dehumanize Palestinians and demoralize society.

• Intentionally creating a security and institutional vacuum by targeting government institutions, international agencies, and public service organizations, weakening the humanitarian response and eroding citizens’ resilience, leading to insecurity, looting, violence, and social disintegration.

• Supporting gang formations within Gaza involved in looting and selling humanitarian aid at high prices, while providing them with air cover and protection. Simultaneously, the occupation continues to target police and law enforcement tasked with securing aid. The most recent example being the killing of the Deir al-Balah police chief and 8 aid security officers in northern Gaza, along with prior killings of over 950 police officers. The occupation has also killed 891 civilians seeking aid and injured nearly 6,000, militarizing the aid distribution process and turning it into a tool of extermination.

• Shifting blame to Palestinian authorities and institutions distributing aid, deflecting accountability for the humanitarian catastrophe and famine caused entirely by the occupation’s actions.

Internal Collapse Looms Amid Widespread Famine

Field reports indicate that Gaza is currently on the brink of societal explosion and humanitarian collapse. The worsening famine threatens the population’s survival amid the absence of basic life necessities. Security structures and social relationships are collapsing under the weight of psychological, economic, and humanitarian pressures, rampant inflation, looting of homes and aid warehouses, and the rise of lawlessness, internal violations, tribal disputes, and distressing events. These conditions have already led to dozens of civilian deaths. Ongoing incitement campaigns and media hostilities are further tearing at the social fabric and threaten grave consequences unless addressed urgently. The occupation is deliberately exploiting these dynamics to ignite chaos and civil war, which serves its genocidal plan to weaken and fragment Gaza’s national structure and enforce post-war displacement scenarios. The occupation is betting on “internal collapse” as part of its colonial project to destroy Palestinian society and replace it with a fragmented, rivaling reality that facilitates long-term control over Gaza and eliminates any chance of reconstruction or national unity.

ICSPR holds the Israeli occupation fully responsible for the catastrophic consequences of its criminal, racist colonial policies — which amount to genocide, including mass killings, destruction, starvation, and the humiliation of Palestinians. These policies aim to transform Gaza into a zone of chaos, without legal or humanitarian responsibility for the occupation, and without enabling any Palestinian authority — whether from the West Bank, the de facto government, a technocratic administration, or an international peacekeeping force — from functioning. This reflects what can be called a “strategy of deliberate chaos.” This is not simply a war — it is a complex colonial project aimed at erasing Palestinian identity, existence, unity, and national aspirations to maintain permanent occupation and displace the population.

To confront this, ICSPR calls for:

1. Forming a unified Palestinian delegation to negotiate a ceasefire, prioritizing ending the genocide, ensuring humanitarian aid flow, halting famine, strengthening resilience, preserving civil peace, criminalizing internal conflict, and reaching national consensus on a transitional governance framework in accordance with the Egyptian and Arab reconstruction and recovery plans.

2. Mobilizing efforts to manage the humanitarian and societal crises with the highest responsibility, combatting monopolies, exploitation, looting, and lawlessness, and reinforcing civil peace and people’s steadfastness against the occupation’s plans.

3. Activating official, societal, and media oversight and peaceful mobilization to confront aid theft, lawlessness, and to ensure accountability through transitional justice mechanisms. Campaigns inciting violence or promoting hate and division should be condemned and isolated.

4. Establishing a unified national emergency committee, including grassroots groups, to manage the humanitarian crisis, prevent monopolies and exploitation, protect aid and international organizations, secure property, and combat crime.

5. Calling on the international community, United Nations bodies, and free nations to act immediately to stop genocide against civilians in Gaza, open crossings, ensure aid delivery, protect humanitarian workers, and end the criminal U.S.-Israeli aid mechanism.

6. Demanding investigations into the Israeli occupation’s role in fragmenting society, spreading chaos, supporting gangs, stealing aid, and using “internal chaos” as a weapon. ICSPR insists on holding the occupation legally accountable in international courts for using internal destabilization as part of its colonial project.

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