Israeli Genocidal Crimes in Gaza Continue Unabated for the 730th Consecutive Day Amid a Deepening Famine, While Settlement Crimes and the Detention of “Fleet of Steadfastness” Activists Persist
Date: October 5, 2025
Press Release
Israeli Genocidal Crimes in Gaza Continue Unabated for the 730th Consecutive Day Amid a Deepening Famine, While Settlement Crimes and the Detention of “Fleet of Steadfastness” Activists Persist
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) strongly condemns the continued perpetration of genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity by the Israeli occupation forces in the Gaza Strip for the 730th consecutive day, despite the announcement of Trump’s plan to halt the war on Gaza. The escalation remains systematic and bloody, targeting all areas of the Strip, with the most intense crimes concentrated in Gaza City.
The most recent massacre occurred when Israeli aircraft bombed a residential block belonging to the Abdul Aal family on Yafa Street in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza, killing 20 civilians, including 7 children (aged between two months and eight years), and injuring over 40 civilians. Civil defense teams are still searching for 20 missing persons under the rubble.
The Israeli forces continue to target civilians waiting for humanitarian aid and deliberately destroy residential neighborhoods and civilian infrastructure using internationally banned weapons. Among the most recent attacks were the bombing of Al-Noor Center for the Blind (UNRWA-affiliated) in Al-Rimal, the Yafa Pharmacy in Al-Maghazi, and the complete destruction of Al-Azhar University in Al-Mughraqa, as part of a deliberate policy to annihilate humanitarian, medical, and educational facilities.
These crimes persist under an ongoing siege and obstruction of humanitarian aid entry, alongside the paralysis of UNRWA and international organizations. As a result, the humanitarian, health, and living conditions have reached unprecedentedly catastrophic levels, coinciding with the continued detention of “Fleet of Steadfastness” activists and escalating settlement attacks in the West Bank.
During the past three days, the Israeli army launched more than 300 airstrikes—over 100 per day—targeting densely populated neighborhoods in Gaza City, the Central Area, Khan Yunis, and Rafah, accompanied by the use of explosives and explosive vehicles, which destroyed entire residential blocks over the heads of their inhabitants.
Ambulances and rescue teams were also targeted systematically to prevent them from performing their duties.
These massacres have resulted in at least 215 martyrs, including 61 children, since yesterday morning alone—45 of them in Gaza City, mostly women and children—along with hundreds of injured and missing persons.
The total number of victims of the genocide since October 7, 2023, has risen to over 67,180 martyrs and 169,700 wounded, in addition to 720 martyrs recently recovered from under the rubble. Thousands more bodies remain trapped beneath destroyed buildings due to the continued bombardment and prevention of civil defense access.
ICSPR documented repeated obstruction and targeting of civil defense and ambulance teams over the past three days, deliberately preventing them from rescuing victims or retrieving the bodies of the martyrs.
ICSPR: Israeli occupation forces continue targeting civilians waiting for humanitarian aid at distribution centers in Gaza City and the central areas, killing 4 people this morning and 11 others over the past three days.
These attacks occur amid a deliberate disruption of aid entry, as UN reports indicate that only 10–15% of actual needs are being met. UNRWA and humanitarian organizations remain paralyzed, while fuel and medical supplies are blocked.
More than 2.3 million people are facing extreme hunger, thirst, and near-total deprivation of food and medicine. Deaths due to hunger, malnutrition, and lack of medicine are reported daily, including among children and the elderly.
To date, at least 471 people—including 157 children and 79 women—have died from starvation and malnutrition. Diseases continue to spread rapidly due to contaminated water and the collapse of the health system.
ICSPR: The Israeli occupation continues its systematic destruction of the healthcare infrastructure, directly targeting hospitals and medical centers, rendering most of them out of service amid severe shortages of medicines and supplies.
This has led to the daily deaths of dozens of untreated patients and wounded, threatening the lives of 1,200 kidney failure patients and 350 infants in incubators.
The bombardment also killed a Médecins Sans Frontières paramedic, and Israeli forces kidnapped nurse Tasneem Al-Hammas from her workplace, forcibly disappearing her. Two days later, it was confirmed that she is being held in Ashkelon Prison without lawyer access.
ICSPR: The occupation continues to forcibly displace civilians from Gaza City toward central and southern regions while preventing their return by closing the Al-Rashid checkpoint.
Entire neighborhoods have been erased, forcing hundreds of thousands into displacement and destitution, living in open areas unfit for habitation.
Roughly 400,000 civilians remain trapped in Gaza City and the north under continuous bombardment, while southern displacement areas suffer from the complete collapse of services and infrastructure.
ICSPR: According to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Israeli forces and settlers have carried out over 38,000 attacks in the West Bank since October 7, 2023, establishing 117 new settlement outposts, erecting 916 military checkpoints, and confiscating 55,000 dunams of Palestinian land through military orders.
This week, Israel approved the seizure of 35 additional dunams in Bethlehem under a new settlement expansion plan aimed at completing the Judaization of the West Bank and undermining the establishment of a Palestinian state.
ICSPR: Condemns the maritime piracy crime committed by Israeli occupation forces against the “Fleet of Steadfastness” in international waters while it was en route to Gaza on a humanitarian mission.
The fleet included 42 ships and 443 activists, journalists, and volunteers from 47 countries. Israeli naval forces violently intercepted the ships using water cannons, electric shocks, and arbitrary arrests, detaining activists and transporting them to Ashdod Port, then to Israeli prisons.
Survivors reported being tortured, denied food and water, and subjected to insults, including being labeled as terrorists by extremist Minister Ben-Gvir.
Among them was Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, who was reportedly dragged by her hair and forced to kiss the Israeli flag, a blatant violation of human dignity and international law.
These acts constitute crimes under international humanitarian law, demanding immediate accountability.
ICSPR: Welcomes the growing international momentum rejecting Israel’s genocide in Gaza and commends the popular and official actions calling for an end to the war—such as major labor strikes in Italy, and mass protests across European capitals.
ICSPR also appreciates the complaint filed by Brazil and 70 other countries to the UN and the diplomatic moves to summon Israeli ambassadors.
It stresses that this momentum must be translated into practical measures—accountability, sanctions, and ending Israel’s impunity.
It further urges all national, Arab, and international efforts to unite under clear plans to end the war, without exploiting the humanitarian catastrophe for political gains or suspicious agendas that compromise Palestinian rights, including the right of return and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with Jerusalem as its capital.
ICSPR warns that the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the expansion of colonization in the West Bank undermine regional and international peace, Palestinian rights, and the rule of international law.
It denounces the global silence and complicity, which amount to partnership in the crime.
Therefore, ICSPR calls on the United Nations, third states, and all free peoples to intensify efforts to end the aggression, lift the blockade on Gaza, ensure humanitarian aid flow, protect civilians, release all detained activists from the Fleet of Steadfastness, and hold Israel accountable before international courts.
Finally, ICSPR urges the imposition of international sanctions and boycott against Israel until it complies with international law and halts its ongoing crimes against humanity.
