More then 700 Days of Genocide and Brutal Israeli Aggression Against the Gaza Strip Amidst International Failure and U.S. Complicity

Date: September 7, 2025

Press Release

 More then 700 Days of Genocide and Brutal Israeli Aggression Against the Gaza Strip Amidst International Failure and U.S. Complicity

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) strongly condemns the ongoing genocide and continuous Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, which has now entered its 700th day, under U.S. support, the bias of some major powers, and suspicious international silence that has encouraged the occupation to persist in committing genocide, ethnic cleansing, war crimes, and crimes against humanity.

Since October 7, 2023, the massacres have resulted in the killing of more than 64,000 Palestinians, including over 20,000 children and 12,500 women, while 2,700 families have been completely wiped from the civil registry. More than 162,000 people have been injured, thousands of them permanently disabled (amputations, paralysis, blindness). No fewer than 1,670 medical personnel, 248 journalists, 139 civil defense workers, 173 municipal employees, 780 relief volunteers, and 580 humanitarian workers have been killed. Around 14,000 people remain missing under the rubble or their fate unknown.

ICSPR affirms that since the beginning of the genocide, the occupation has adopted a scorched-earth policy, using more than 150,000 tons of explosives and internationally banned weapons, blatantly disregarding the principles of proportionality and distinction. This has resulted in the destruction of nearly 90% of residential homes and infrastructure, including 38 hospitals, 833 mosques, and 163 educational institutions completely, in addition to the destruction and damage of more than 600,000 housing units. The occupation also destroyed 95% of water wells and 90% of economic, agricultural, commercial, tourism, and service sectors. Initial economic losses have exceeded $68 billion, while the UN and World Bank estimated the cost of reconstruction at more than $80 billion.

ICSPR strongly condemns the destruction of residential towers and multi-story buildings in Gaza City by Israeli occupation forces as part of plans for the mass forced displacement of residents. This dangerous escalation represents a form of collective punishment, reprisal, and spatial genocide. At the same time, Israeli political and military leaders, the war criminals, continue to threaten a large-scale attack on Gaza City. On September 5, 2025, Israeli War Minister Yisrael Katz announced the escalation, declaring: “Now the gates of hell are opening in Gaza” — a statement translated on the ground into the brutal use of overwhelming force, daily massacres, and systematic destruction of homes and neighborhoods in Gaza City and northern Gaza.

In recent days, there has been a systematic pattern of destroying towers and multi-story buildings through airstrikes and military machinery, displacing hundreds of families, and spreading fear among civilians in an attempt to forcibly push them southward — despite full awareness that no place in Gaza is safe. These actions have been accompanied by direct threats and phone calls to residents ordering evacuation before destruction, causing panic and trauma among civilians. This policy clearly falls within the framework of war crimes and crimes against humanity and constitutes a flagrant violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and the Rome Statute.

ICSPR stresses that the occupation continues to use starvation as a weapon of war by blocking food, medicine, and fuel. In August 2025, the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) declared famine in Gaza City, with expectations of spreading to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis within weeks. Reports from the World Health Organization (WHO) indicate that more than 640,000 people will face catastrophic hunger by the end of September, while the occupation allows entry of no more than 15% of actual needs. Already, 382 people have died of hunger and malnutrition, including 135 children, while more than one million children suffer from acute malnutrition and 55,000 pregnant women face severe risks, amid the spread of infectious diseases and epidemics due to the collapse of the health system and the lack of clean water and medicines.

The occupation has also carried out a systematic forced displacement policy, displacing more than 90% of Gaza’s population — over 2 million Palestinians — who now live in dire conditions without shelter or basic services. Israeli authorities continue to prevent displaced people from returning to northern Gaza, Rafah, and eastern areas, while relentlessly destroying what remains of residential neighborhoods, including towers (such as Mushtahi and Sousi) using explosive robots, in an attempt to impose direct military rule and erase the city’s identity.

At the same time, the occupation continues committing heinous crimes against the more than 11,000 Palestinian prisoners, including thousands from Gaza, who are subjected to torture with electric shocks and rubber bullets, deliberate medical neglect, and denial of family and legal visits, in flagrant violation of the Geneva Conventions — turning prisons into slow-death centers and “human experimentation fields.”

ICSPR also warns of the dangerous complicity of major technology companies, including a suspicious $45 million contract between Google and Netanyahu’s office to distort facts and whitewash the famine and Israeli crimes in Gaza. ICSPR calls for an international investigation to hold these complicit companies accountable and impose sanctions on them as partners in the crime of genocide.

ICSPR affirms that the passage of 700 days of this massacre and genocide is a disgrace on the conscience of humanity, putting the international community to a true test of its will and ability to enforce international law. The resilience of the Palestinian people, despite catastrophe, proves that the Palestinian right will not be erased, and that urgent action is needed to save what remains of Gaza and protect its people from existential threats.

Accordingly, ICSPR calls for:

1. The UN General Assembly to invoke the Uniting for Peace mechanism to impose an immediate ceasefire and deploy an urgent international protection force.

2. The immediate lifting of the blockade and the guarantee of the entry of food, medicine, and fuel.

3. The prosecution of Israeli leaders before the International Criminal Court and national courts with universal jurisdiction, and the urgent opening of an investigation into the targeting of residential towers.

4. The imposition of comprehensive sanctions on Israel, including an arms embargo, severing relations, and holding complicit companies — especially major technology firms — accountable.

5. The escalation of popular and human rights pressure on international and regional organizations, and on the United States, to stop the genocide and save Gaza’s residents from extermination, famine, and forced displacement.