ICSPR: The Israeli Occupation Commits Genocide and Systematic Destruction Against the Palestinian People in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem 

Date : 27 Aug 2025

Press Release

ICSPR: The Israeli Occupation Commits Genocide and Systematic Destruction Against the Palestinian People in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) follows with deep concern the escalating crime of systematic genocide carried out by the Israeli occupation. The war on the Gaza Strip continues today, Wednesday, 27 August 2025, marking the 691st consecutive day. The attacks include targeting displaced persons’ tents in Al-Mawasi in the southern Gaza Strip, ongoing bombardment of homes over the heads of their residents in Gaza City, and the demolition of houses in Al-Nazla, Al-Saftawi, and the end of Al-Jalaa Street. Massacres are being committed across all areas of the Strip, from north to south, targeting residential neighborhoods, hospitals, and displacement camps. This comes alongside the expansion of the military offensive in Gaza City and its surroundings as part of a declared brutal plan to invade and destroy the city and forcibly displace its inhabitants southward, crowding them into areas that resemble concentration camps.

During the past 24 hours, hospitals in Gaza received 76 martyrs, including one recovered from under the rubble, and 298 wounded. This raises the toll of the aggression since 7 October 2023 to 62,895 martyrs and 158,927 injuries. Among the victims are the “bread martyrs”—starving civilians who perished while searching for food—numbering 2,158 killed and more than 15,843 wounded.

The Ministry of Health also recorded 10 new deaths in recent hours due to famine and malnutrition, including two children, raising the total to 313 deaths, among them 119 children.

Meanwhile, the occupying power continues to commit the crime of collective starvation against more than 2.3 million people, amid an 86% shortfall in humanitarian aid and the prevention of 430 essential food items from entering Gaza. This threatens the lives of tens of thousands, particularly as the international community and organizations fail to act on the official declaration of famine in the Strip, and remain unable to halt Israel’s crimes or secure the flow of aid. This portends the deaths of tens of thousands more civilians, especially children, women, and the elderly, in addition to putting the majority of Gaza’s population at risk of death from hunger and disease.

ICSPR highlights that since 20 August 2025, the Israeli army has launched “Operation Gideon’s Chariots 2,” involving wide-scale, systematic destruction of residential blocks through a simultaneous advance from three axes toward the heart of Gaza City, deploying unprecedented means such as booby-trapped robots to blow up neighborhoods. This has resulted in civilian bodies being torn apart under rubble and in the streets, with entire districts (including Jabalia, Sheikh Radwan, and Al-Sabra) reduced to ruins.

The health system, ICSPR notes, is on the verge of total collapse: more than half of Gaza’s hospitals are out of service, while the rest operate under extreme strain amid bombardment, fuel shortages, water scarcity, and lack of supplies. Blood banks face a critical shortage, with daily needs exceeding 350 units. Malnutrition and infections among the wounded worsen due to the lack of fixators, antibiotics, and medical supplies, causing a surge in amputations.

The occupation continues to escalate raids in West Bank towns and cities—including Jerusalem, Ramallah, Al-Bireh, Nablus, and Tulkarm—accompanied by arrests, extrajudicial executions, and property destruction, all aimed at imposing new security realities to serve colonial settlement and Judaization projects.

On the National Day for the Recovery of Martyrs’ Bodies, ICSPR underscores Israel’s ongoing policy of withholding martyrs’ remains. The occupation holds 726 martyrs in morgues and “cemeteries of numbers,” including 67 children, 85 prisoners, and 10 women, in addition to more than 1,500 bodies of Gaza martyrs from the 2023 genocide stored at the “Sde Teiman” camp. This constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and amounts to an ongoing crime against humanity.

For the third consecutive academic year, Gaza’s students are deprived of education due to Israel’s genocidal war and systematic targeting of the education sector. Over 18,489 students have been killed, 28,854 injured, 970 teachers and staff martyred, and 4,533 injured. A total of 160 public schools and 63 university buildings in Gaza have been completely destroyed, with all other schools and universities sustaining partial destruction or severe damage. In the West Bank, 152 schools and 8 universities have been vandalized, while 88 teachers have been arrested.

ICSPR rejects Israel’s false claims about so-called investigative committees into massacres and atrocities, including the massacre at Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, which killed 22 civilians, among them 6 journalists. The Commission stresses that the occupation authorities have consistently used these committees as a cover to evade responsibility for systematic crimes perpetrated by their army under high-level political orders.

ICSPR affirms that the crimes of the Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank constitute blatant violations of all norms of international humanitarian law, human rights standards, the measures of the International Court of Justice, and relevant UN resolutions. The Commission strongly condemns these crimes and expresses its deep concern that daily massacres, genocide, famine, and other atrocities may become normalized in the eyes of international actors, particularly amid the paralysis of the UN Security Council due to the U.S. veto and the failure of international and regional organizations to fulfill their duties in protecting Palestinians and maintaining international peace and security.

ICSPR calls on the international community, the United Nations, and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention to act immediately to stop the aggression and genocide, ensure the entry of humanitarian aid, medical supplies, rescue teams, and all essential needs for Gaza’s population, and guarantee the freedom of work for international organizations, especially UNRWA.

ICSPR urges the International Criminal Court to expedite investigations into all crimes committed in Gaza and the occupied Palestinian territories, including genocide, deliberate killings, starvation, withholding of bodies, and targeting of education and hospitals, and to issue more arrest warrants for Israeli political and military leaders and their accomplices.

ICSPR also calls on the free peoples of the world to continue mobilizing against Israeli crimes, and pressures states to fulfill their humanitarian and legal responsibilities, including ensuring the UN activates the “Responsibility to Protect” principle and convenes the General Assembly under the “Uniting for Peace” framework to establish an international protection force for Palestinians and safeguard civilian and cultural property. The Commission further calls for imposing sanctions on Israel, boycotting it, halting arms exports, and suspending its UN membership until it ends its occupation of Palestinian land.

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