Press Release

ICSPR: 21 Months of Hell – Gaza Between Bombardment, Starvation, and International Betrayal The World Must Shoulder Its Responsibilities to Stop the Genocide and Famine and Hold Israel and Its Partners Accountable

Date: July 10, 2025

Press Statement

The Gaza Strip has been subjected to a genocidal war and brutal Israeli aggression for the 21st consecutive month, aimed at annihilating and exhausting its population, destroying residential neighborhoods, infrastructure, and service systems, in addition to dismantling the social fabric through ongoing collective punishment, famine, forced displacement, and engineered chaos. The countries of the world are called upon to bear their responsibilities in stopping the crimes of genocide and famine and to hold Israel and its partners accountable.

The International Commission to Support Palestinians’ Rights (ICSPR) follows with deep concern and strong condemnation the escalation of horrifying crimes and ongoing massacres committed by Israeli occupation forces against civilians in the Gaza Strip, which constitute a systematic policy as part of the ongoing crime of genocide since October 7, 2023, to date, amid American partnership, collusion, and blatant international failure to stop the genocide, ensure the flow of humanitarian aid, and protect civilians.

In a dangerous development that reflects Israel’s intent to depopulate Gaza and erase what remains of it, an Israeli-American plan has been announced—according to the Israeli Defense Minister—to establish population assembly centers east of Rafah. Investigations by American and Israeli media confirm that the American humanitarian organization “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” has drawn up a plan known as “Aurora,” prepared by Boston Consulting Group (BCG), which partners with the aforementioned foundation. The plan involves gathering and transferring Gaza residents to temporary camps under the control of the Israeli army, forcing the population into these camps from their current locations by continuing starvation policies, chaos, and massacres.

This is part of the parallel genocide strategy aimed at systematically destroying remaining buildings and civilian facilities in Gaza, as was done in Rafah, which has been completely destroyed, with ongoing comprehensive destruction in other areas. This proves that the goal is total destruction, eliminating any chance for life, and subjecting Gaza’s population to death, starvation, thirst, and disease, while dismantling social structures by spreading chaos, destroying civil peace, and supporting gangs and looting of aid—entrenching colonial dynamics of control over the population and exploiting their suffering under genocidal conditions. This is aimed at forcibly displacing them to areas being prepared in Rafah, followed by pushing them toward emigration outside Palestinian territories via a so-called “voluntary migration” program that includes financial incentives of up to $9,000 per person. This exposes Israel’s ongoing intentions to continue genocide and facilitate mass displacement of Gaza’s population as part of creating a new Nakba by depopulating the land.

These statements, media leaks, and realities on the ground, along with Israel’s refusal to withdraw from the “Mawasi” axis and Rafah city despite ongoing ceasefire negotiations in Qatar for a 60-day truce, and leaked information from Israeli media regarding Netanyahu’s request to the army to prepare a plan to transfer Gaza City and northern Gaza residents to the south and build camps in the southern Strip—all confirm this intent. The insistence on banning and obstructing international organizations, especially UN agencies such as UNRWA, and attempts to replace them with the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation and its partner American security company further confirm their partnership in implementing genocidal plans and deepening the humanitarian catastrophe.

This collaboration has contributed to and participated in crimes of killing and targeting starving civilians at American-Israeli aid distribution points, resulting in 773 martyrs, 5,101 injured, and 41 missing.

ICSPR strongly condemns the Israeli occupation’s continued daily massacres against Palestinian civilians by intensifying aerial bombardments on residential neighborhoods, displacement camps, hospitals, and shelters. Within the last 24 hours alone, 150 martyrs have been recorded. The most egregious of these occurred this morning when Israeli warplanes targeted a gathering of civilians at a medical point in Deir al-Balah that was providing nutritional and medical support to children and women amid the policy of starvation. This attack resulted in 17 martyrs and dozens of injuries, mostly women and children.

Other massacres led to the martyrdom of 70 people in the southern Gaza Strip, including five freed prisoners from the “Shalit Deal,” 55 martyrs from bombing tents of the displaced in Al-Mawasi, west of Khan Younis, 10 martyrs near aid centers in northern Rafah, and 5 who died from prior injuries. In central Gaza, 30 martyrs were reported due to bombings on homes and displacement shelters in eastern Deir al-Balah and Al-Bureij, in addition to direct targeting of civilians and vehicles. The victims included women, children, and freed prisoners. In Gaza City, 50 martyrs were killed in bombings on displacement tents in Al-Rimal and Al-Zeitoun neighborhoods, and scattered homes near Carrefour junction, Tel Al-Hawa, Sheikh Radwan, and east of Al-Tuffah. One martyr was killed while awaiting aid in Al-Sudaniya.

This brings the total number of martyrs to 57,725 and injured to 136,879.

ICSPR strongly condemns the systematic use of starvation as a weapon of war through continued closure of crossings and obstruction of humanitarian aid entry and convoys, which has exacerbated the catastrophic humanitarian crisis. Acute famine has caused the death of 66 children, 247 patients, over 300 miscarriages, and now threatens the lives of 77,000 malnourished children. Around 50,000 pregnant and nursing women in Gaza have gone days without food, endangering their lives and that of their babies, especially with the lack of infant formula, nutritional supplements, food, and clean drinking water. The healthcare system has collapsed due to shortages of medical supplies, medicines, and fuel to run hospital generators, threatening an imminent halt of medical services and placing thousands of patients and wounded at risk of death. This reflects a near-total collapse of the health and humanitarian system and portends the death of thousands beyond the suffering endured by the entire population of Gaza.

ICSPR also strongly condemns the U.S. administration’s imposition of sanctions on UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese, due to her work and critical reports documenting Israel’s crimes and those of its partners in the occupied Palestinian territories, and her advocacy for international justice and accountability. ICSPR expresses its solidarity with the Special Rapporteur and condemns incitement campaigns against her, the International Criminal Court, UN agencies, and human rights defenders.

These sanctions reflect the rule of the jungle, double standards, and a blatant assault on the international human rights system and an unacceptable interference in the UN’s and its rapporteurs’ work, aimed at obstructing the course of international justice.

The International Commission to Support Palestinians’ Rights (ICSPR) renews its warning of the dangers and consequences of continued Israeli massacres, starvation, thirst, disease, engineered chaos, destruction of residential neighborhoods, infrastructure, and forced displacement. This proves beyond any doubt that the occupation is pursuing policies aimed at exterminating the Palestinian presence in Gaza. ICSPR condemns the American complicity in genocide and forced displacement schemes.

ICSPR calls on the international community, the United Nations, and third-party states to the Genocide Convention and Geneva Conventions to uphold their legal and humanitarian responsibilities toward Gaza’s population, to immediately stop the genocide, ensure humanitarian aid flows, facilitate the work of international organizations, especially UNRWA, and halt the operation of the U.S.-Israeli “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation” as a criminal mechanism, and to prosecute those responsible for crimes against starving civilians.

ICSPR calls for action to confront Israeli plans to reshape Gaza demographically and geographically, to provide international protection for Palestinians, support the work of the Special Rapporteur and the International Criminal Court, and to actively pursue the prosecution of Israeli leaders, soldiers, and their partners before international courts. It also calls for imposing sanctions on Israel and suspending its UN membership, as a step toward halting forced displacement, colonial annexation of Palestinian land, protecting the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, ending the occupation, and dismantling the Israeli apartheid colonial regime.

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