Gaza on the Brink of a Catastrophic Nakba – Urgent Arab and International Action Needed to Protect Palestinians Before It’s Too Late

Date: 15 September 2025

Press Release
Gaza on the Brink of a Catastrophic Nakba – Urgent Arab and International Action Needed to Protect Palestinians Before It’s Too Late

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) affirms that the Israeli occupation has, for 709 consecutive days, continued to commit the most heinous crimes of genocide, war crimes, crimes against humanity, and acts of aggression. These crimes include intensifying aerial bombardments and artillery shelling, targeting civilians, destroying residential towers, homes, shelters, schools, and aid distribution centers, while expanding its starvation and siege policy and issuing unlawful evacuation orders. The aim is to empty entire areas of their residents and impose mass forced displacement on more than one million residents of Gaza City and northern Gaza.

ICSPR has documented a sharp increase in the pace of destruction of residential buildings in Gaza City, with 90 towers and buildings completely destroyed, 150 buildings heavily damaged, and nearly 3,500 tents for displaced people destroyed or damaged. Massacres carried out by the occupation yesterday alone killed 68 Palestinians and injured 346 others, bringing the total death toll of the ongoing genocide—now in its 24th consecutive month—to 64,871 martyrs and 164,610 injuries.

Since 18 March 2025 alone, 12,321 Palestinians have been killed and 52,569 injured. Among them are 2,494 people killed while trying to access humanitarian aid and more than 18,135 injured. Deaths due to famine and malnutrition have risen to 422, including 145 children, with 144 deaths recorded since the UN declared Gaza a famine zone. Meanwhile, Israeli forces continue to obstruct the delivery of humanitarian aid, medical supplies, and tents—allowing in no more than 15% of the population’s needs. Civilians are now crammed into less than 12% of Gaza’s territory, suffering from severe overcrowding, lack of shelter, famine, thirst, disease, and the collapse of the health system.

ICSPR: Gaza City is facing a systematic assault aimed at civilians and remaining civilian infrastructure. In the last 48 hours alone, ICSPR documented concentrated artillery and aerial strikes on Gaza City’s western and northern neighborhoods—particularly Al-Shati Camp, Al-Nasr, Sheikh Radwan, Al-Rimal, and Tel al-Hawa. UNRWA schools (Al-Soura, Shuheibar, Al-Aaliya), which were sheltering thousands of displaced people near the Al-Suwaidi Center in Al-Shati Camp, were directly targeted.

Additionally, five residential towers and more than 60 multi-story buildings in Al-Shati and western Gaza were destroyed—including buildings and homes of the Dalou, Krizem, Harz, Lazoun, Labban, Madhoon, Abu Murai, Madoukh, Abu Sweirih, Awadallah, Sharab, Dawoud, Mehanna, Samaneh, Qazaat, Dughmosh, and Al-Bakr families.

Airstrikes also targeted what remained of the Mukhabarat Towers and residential buildings in Al-Karama neighborhood, destroyed the Public Prosecution building and the old television headquarters, leaving dozens of martyrs and wounded, and wiping out entire neighborhoods and homes sheltering thousands of families. This reflects a scorched-earth policy and systematic genocide, proving the deliberate killing of civilians, displacement of the displaced, and deprivation of the minimum requirements of life. It demonstrates the occupation’s goal of destroying what remains of Gaza’s homes, historical landmarks, and civilian infrastructure as part of declared Israeli-American plans for mass displacement—an explicit violation of international humanitarian law, the Geneva Conventions, the Genocide Convention, the Rome Statute, and the measures of the International Court of Justice.

ICSPR: The bombing campaign is accompanied by short phone warnings that leave civilians no time except to flee without belongings. The use of booby-trapped robots, armed drones, and nightly ground raids turns every shelter into a target, creating a daily policy of terror to force civilians into mass displacement. ICSPR documented entire families buried under the rubble of their homes, including the bombing of the Islamic University today and the Husary family’s home in Al-Shati yesterday, which claimed dozens of lives still trapped under the debris. These crimes reflect a calculated strategy to empty the city through massacres, mass terror, and systematic destruction of residential neighborhoods.

Meanwhile, the occupation employs prohibited weapons and tools—such as explosive drones and advanced missiles—that target civilian gatherings, turning Gaza into an uninhabitable wasteland in the largest episode of genocide since the Nakba of 1948.

ICSPR: Expresses grave concern over the expansion of Israeli crimes in the West Bank and Jerusalem, including ongoing raids, mass arrests, settler violence, repeated incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque, expansion of colonial settlements, home demolitions, abuse of prisoners in Israeli jails, and targeting of academics and students—as in Hebron University—as well as piracy of Palestinian tax revenues. These actions confirm that Israel’s aggression spans all occupied Palestinian territories.

ICSPR: Warns that incitement and legitimization of genocide against civilians—as expressed by Israeli and American officials—constitute dangerous incitement, violating international norms, and adding criminal liability to political and military leaders before international courts. It stresses that failure to stop these crimes will enable Israel to succeed in emptying Gaza, and any leniency by states or international organizations amounts to complicity. Protecting Palestinian civilians and halting the genocide are obligations of third-party states and a test of human conscience and commitment to international law.

ICSPR: This escalation coincides with growing Arab and international recognition of the grave dangers posed by Israel’s aggression against Gaza and the region. It places a historic responsibility on Arab and Islamic states meeting in Doha to take concrete actions: severing official, military, and economic relations with Israel; imposing punitive sanctions; forming a unified stance to halt the genocide; ensuring aid delivery; supporting UNRWA; protecting Palestinians; and preventing forced displacement or liquidation of the Palestinian cause, while countering Israeli aggression on regional states and its schemes to dominate the Middle East.

ICSPR: Welcomes the recent UN General Assembly resolution—passed by 142 states—which condemned massacres, siege, starvation, and displacement, called for an immediate end to the war, deployment of a temporary international mission for stability, and recognition of the State of Palestine. ICSPR views this as a sign of Israel and the U.S.’s growing isolation and rejection of Palestinian rights. It therefore calls for unified national, Arab, and international efforts to compel the international system to protect civilians, halt the genocide, prosecute perpetrators, and pave the way to end the occupation as a precondition for peace and lasting justice.

This requires urgent measures to end the genocide, ensure aid delivery, prevent displacement, establish a Palestinian state, and enforce international resolutions. The “Uniting for Peace” mechanism must be activated to issue binding resolutions, authorize an urgent international protection force, impose sanctions and boycotts on Israel, and suspend its UN membership until it halts its crimes and ends its occupation and aggression.

Until then, ICSPR affirms its reliance on the free people of the world, civil society, parliaments, trade unions, churches, universities, media, political parties, and youth across the globe to intensify popular and diplomatic pressure—through demonstrations, vigils, statements, and even civil disobedience—to force governments and the United Nations to fulfill their moral and legal obligations to stop genocide, starvation, systematic destruction, and mass displacement.