ICSPR calls on the international community to form an international humanitarian coalition to stop genocide, famine, and protect Palestinians The commission also renews its warning against the dangerous Israeli and American plans for forced displacement
Date: August 31, 2025
Press Release
ICSPR calls on the international community to form an international humanitarian coalition to stop genocide, famine, and protect Palestinians also renews its warning against the dangerous Israeli and American plans for forced displacement
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) expresses its deep concern, condemnation, and outrage over the escalating crimes of genocide, forced displacement, and starvation committed by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Yesterday, the occupation committed a horrific massacre by targeting a crowded bakery in Gaza City, resulting in the killing of 19 citizens and the injury of dozens, including women and children. In parallel, tents sheltering displaced families were bombed near the Maqousi Towers area northwest of Gaza City, raising the death toll since dawn today to more than 83 martyrs.
Since the beginning of the ongoing genocidal war and aggression, now in its second consecutive year, the total number of martyrs has surpassed 63,000, with over 160,000 injured, the majority of whom are women and children. In addition, nearly 14,000 people remain missing under the rubble, along with thousands of detainees and cases of enforced disappearance.
ICSPR strongly condemns the worsening humanitarian catastrophe caused by the occupation’s deliberate starvation policy, amid the international community’s failure to enforce the entry of humanitarian aid, despite the United Nations declaring Gaza a famine zone.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has reported seven new deaths in the past 24 hours due to famine and malnutrition, bringing the total number of starvation-related deaths to 339, including 124 children. The occupation continues to obstruct aid, allowing fewer than 100 trucks to enter daily, while at least 600 trucks per day are the bare minimum required. At the same time, the occupation continues to bar UNRWA from carrying out its vital relief functions.
More than 2.3 million Palestinians remain trapped in less than 14% of the Strip’s area, suffering from hunger, thirst, the spread of disease and epidemics, the collapse of the health system, and the absence of shelter or tents — leaving them facing the constant threat of death, forced displacement, or total annihilation.
On the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances, ICSPR emphasizes that enforced disappearance is a core element of the crime of genocide. Thousands of Palestinian families still do not know the fate of their loved ones who disappeared under the rubble, during ground invasions, after arbitrary arrests, or while trying to access humanitarian aid. This deliberate denial of information, coupled with the retention of thousands of bodies in military camps and “numbered cemeteries,” including 1,500 bodies belonging to Gaza residents, exacerbates the suffering of victims and their families and constitutes a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law and international human rights law.
ICSPR warns of the grave danger posed by Israeli-American schemes aimed at uprooting Palestinians from their land through forced displacement and reoccupation of Gaza. According to a report by Haaretz, a plan is underway to establish closed camps in the Mirage area south of Rafah, under the name “Sde Teiman 2,” where displaced people would be stripped of their identities, treated as mere numbers, and cut off from the outside world after their phones are confiscated — in conditions reminiscent of Nazi camps, with expectations that these facilities could last for years.
Similarly, The Washington Post revealed a 38-page plan prepared by former U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration to resettle Gaza’s population through so-called “voluntary relocation,” or to confine them in closed areas within the Strip in exchange for financial incentives and digital codes as substitutes for their properties, while transforming Gaza into a “tourist hub” for ten years under U.S. trusteeship through a dubious entity called “Gaza Humanitarian,” whose operations have been linked to the deaths of thousands of Palestinians attempting to access aid.
These schemes align with ongoing efforts by the occupation to reoccupy Gaza City and forcibly displace its residents, where more than one million people are currently squeezed into a narrow strip west of the city, from Al-Tuwam neighborhood in the north to Sheikh Ajleen in the south. Forcing civilians to flee under fire — using explosive drones, booby-trapped robots, artillery shelling, and quadcopter strikes — constitutes a compound war crime. According to the International Committee of the Red Cross and the United Nations, it is impossible to safely evacuate the city in a way that preserves civilians’ lives, dignity, and rights, especially given the absence of any safe refuge.
ICSPR stresses that the occupation government’s rejection of all international efforts to reach a ceasefire and complete a prisoner exchange deal — along with its insistence on continuing large-scale destruction of residential areas, infrastructure, historical, and archaeological sites — reflects a deliberate intent to annihilate what remains of Gaza and impose mass displacement, in line with a systematic policy of ethnic cleansing and genocide.
ICSPR also condemns the recent U.S. decision to revoke visas for Palestinian Authority and PLO officials ahead of the UN General Assembly session. This constitutes a flagrant violation of the host state’s obligations under the UN Headquarters Agreement, an affront to international law and diplomatic norms, and an attempt to delegitimize Palestinian representation. Such conduct entrenches the subservience of the UN to U.S. political will, turning its headquarters into a tool of political blackmail, threatening the independence of the UN and undermining the principle of equality among nations.
Accordingly, ICSPR:
- Calls on the international community, the United Nations, and States Parties to the Geneva Conventions and the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide to take urgent and effective measures to stop the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Gaza.
- Demands the immediate and unconditional opening of all crossings to allow the entry of humanitarian and medical aid, and to enable UNRWA and other international organizations to perform their relief duties.
- Calls for the immediate disclosure of the fate of all forcibly disappeared Palestinians, unrestricted access for the International Committee of the Red Cross and legal representatives, and the release of all those arbitrarily detained, as a legal and moral obligation that cannot be delayed.
- Urges the imposition of comprehensive sanctions on the occupying state, an end to all forms of military and political support, and genuine efforts to prosecute its leaders before the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity.
- Calls on the UN to activate the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism and form an international humanitarian coalition and protection force to safeguard civilians and put an end to this ongoing genocide.
- Urges the relocation of the UN General Assembly headquarters to Geneva if Washington continues to deny the Palestinian delegation its right to present its case, to ensure the UN’s independence and to reject U.S.-Israeli dominance over the international system.
- Encourages peoples and civil society worldwide to escalate solidarity campaigns with Palestine and Gaza, enforce comprehensive boycotts of the occupying state and its supporters — politically, economically, academically, culturally, and in sports — and to organize broad grassroots mobilization to end the genocide and Israeli occupation.
