ICSPR Israeli occupation and settler crimes are escalating in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem, requiring urgent international action to hold perpetrators accountable, provide international protection, and end the occupation

Date: 10 November 2025

Press Release

ICSPR: Israeli occupation and settler crimes are escalating in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem, requiring urgent international action to hold perpetrators accountable, provide international protection, and end the occupation

The International Commission to Support Palestinians’ Rights (ICSPR) expresses its deep concern over the continuation and escalation of organized Israeli crimes and violations against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank including occupied Jerusalem, and in Israeli prisons. These violations amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide, amid an unjustified international silence and clear failure by the international community to uphold its legal and moral responsibilities toward protecting Palestinian civilians.

ICSPR: The Gaza Strip is experiencing a comprehensive humanitarian catastrophe due to the continued blockade, aggression, and deliberate starvation. The Strip is witnessing a full-scale humanitarian, health, and living collapse as a result of Israel’s ongoing assault, where the number of martyrs since the start of the war has exceeded MORE THEN 70.000, while the number of wounded has exceeded 170.000, most of them civilians. Meanwhile, thousands remain missing under the rubble without the ability to recover them due to the lack of equipment and fuel.

More than 1.9 million displaced people suffer catastrophic conditions inside deteriorating tents amid the occupation’s prevention of entry of relief supplies, shelter materials, and fuel, and the continued policy of systematic starvation by banning the entry of more than 350 essential food items, including meats, dairy products, vegetables, and fruits, leading to the spread of famine and acute malnutrition among children, women, and the elderly.

ICSPR believes that these practices constitute the systematic use of starvation as a weapon of war, in grave violation of international humanitarian law and the four Geneva Conventions. The Israeli occupation authorities bear full legal and humanitarian responsibility for their catastrophic consequences, especially with the approach of winter and the absence of the basic necessities of life in the devastated Strip.

ICSPR: The West Bank and Jerusalem are witnessing unprecedented escalation in settler violence and organized crimes under the sponsorship of the Israeli army. ICSPR has documented an unprecedented rise in organized settler crimes against Palestinian citizens in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, with more than 1,500 settler attacks since the beginning of the year, including shootings, burning homes and vehicles, uprooting olive trees, and looting private lands and properties, all under full protection from the Israeli army.

This escalation has led to the killing of more than 710 Palestinians, including 160 children and 42 women, and the injury of 6,300 others. Observers describe these attacks as the most violent in over 20 years, aiming to forcibly displace Palestinians from their areas and expand colonial settlement.

ICSPR affirms that these attacks are part of a policy of ethnic cleansing and demographic engineering pursued by the occupation. They also reflect the complicity of the extremist Israeli government, which provides political and legal cover for settler militias and works to impose new facts on the ground undermining any chance to establish an independent Palestinian state.

ICSPR: warns of continued grave and systematic violations against Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons, whose number has exceeded 9,800 prisoners, including 330 children and 210 women, and about 2,400 administrative detainees held without charge or trial, in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions and international human rights law.

ICSPR has documented the killing of 19 detainees since October 2023 as a result of torture, medical negligence, and ill-treatment, while more than 1,300 prisoners suffer from chronic and serious illnesses in the absence of adequate medical care.

ICSPR considers what is happening in Israeli prisons to be a systematic torture regime and a crime against humanity that requires urgent international intervention to compel the occupation to respect its obligations as an occupying power, and to release all prisoners, especially the sick, elderly, women, and children.

The International Commission to Support Palestinians’ Rights (ICSPR) stresses that the continuation of Israeli occupation crimes and settler terror against the Palestinian people in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem, and what is happening in Israeli prisons, warns of a comprehensive humanitarian collapse and entrenches a system of apartheid and systematic genocide.

ICSPR confirms that ending the occupation and holding its leaders accountable is the only way to achieve justice, security, and peace. It renews its call on the United Nations and the States Parties to the Geneva Conventions to bear their legal and humanitarian responsibilities urgently to protect the Palestinian people and stop these crimes immediately.

Accordingly, ICSPR records and demands the following:

1. Urgent international action to ensure the cessation of Israeli violations of the ceasefire agreement, including ending the blockade, and ensuring the entry of humanitarian and relief aid, equipment, tents, and temporary shelters without restrictions or obstacles.

2. Providing international protection for the Palestinian people in all occupied territories, and stopping genocide, field executions, arbitrary arrests, and forced displacement.

3. Holding occupation leaders and settlers accountable before the International Criminal Court, as their crimes constitute war crimes and genocide under the Rome Statute, and allowing the entry of the fact-finding committee to investigate Israeli violations against civilians and detainees.

4. Activating international justice mechanisms and exercising universal jurisdiction to prosecute Israeli war criminals before national and international courts to ensure they do not escape punishment.

5. Imposing international sanctions and halting arms exports to Israel as a state that practices apartheid and uses excessive force against unarmed civilians.

6. Enabling international organizations and Palestinian civil society organizations to perform their role in relief, accountability, and human rights advocacy, and providing them with financial and logistical support.