ICSPR Ending the genocide and Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip requires moving beyond mere condemnation and fulfilling the obligations imposed by international law on states and international organizations.

Date: Sunday, 10 August 2025

Press Release

Ending the genocide and Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip requires moving beyond mere condemnation and fulfilling the obligations imposed by international law on states and international organizations.

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) strongly condemns the ongoing comprehensive Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip, accompanied by acts of genocide, ethnic cleansing, systematic starvation, and deprivation of water, amid an almost complete collapse of the health and service infrastructure and the absence of any effective international intervention. This coincides with the occupation authorities announcing plans to reimpose full military control over the Strip, in an escalatory step that flagrantly violates international law, international legitimacy resolutions, and the rulings of the International Court of Justice, paving the way for the destruction of Gaza City and the forced displacement of its population.

ICSPR points out that, according to data from the past 24 hours, Gaza hospitals have received 72 martyrs and 314 injuries, including 16 martyrs and more than 250 injuries during attempts to obtain food aid. This brings the death toll from what has become known as the “bread of life” tragedy since the start of the war to 1,772 martyrs and more than 12,249 injuries.

The Ministry of Health also recorded 16 new deaths from hunger, raising the total number of starvation victims to 217 martyrs, including 102 children. The overall death toll has reached 61,330 martyrs and 152,359 wounded who have arrived at hospitals since 7 October 2023, with thousands more still trapped under the rubble.

ICSPR affirms that all testimonies it has gathered, along with international reports and UN experts’ statements, confirm that the occupation continues to use starvation as a weapon of war to annihilate and destroy Gaza’s population. Residents of the Strip are living through catastrophic famine and acute food shortages that are claiming dozens of civilian lives. Half a million people face the risk of death due to catastrophic hunger, including 320,000 children under five suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Elderly people, patients, pregnant and breastfeeding women are also at severe risk due to going days without food, exposing them to life-threatening dangers.

ICSPR warns of the total collapse of the health and humanitarian system, as more than two million displaced persons live in overcrowded shelters or in the open, without food, clean drinking water, or health services, amid heat waves and catastrophic environmental and health conditions. These conditions are coupled with ongoing massacres against civilians, including the targeting of starving civilians seeking aid, the bombing of tents, shelters, and civilian homes. The health situation has shifted from catastrophe to total collapse as the occupation continues to obstruct humanitarian aid, medical supplies, medicines, and fuel. The Ministry of Health has received less than 5% of its needs in recent days. The number of wounded continues to rise, with 12,000 cases requiring treatment abroad, and thousands of children, women, and the elderly being treated for malnutrition. Gaza hospitals have recorded the deaths of 16 citizens within 48 hours due to hunger — a dangerous indicator of the approaching total collapse, which threatens to halt hospital operations and cause hundreds or even thousands of deaths from starvation and the spread of disease and epidemics.

The number of Palestinian detainees in occupation prisons has reached 10,800, including 49 women and more than 450 children, in addition to thousands of administrative detainees from Gaza classified as “unlawful combatants.” These detainees are subjected to torture, enforced disappearance, and denial of food, medical care, and other rights guaranteed by the Third and Fourth Geneva Conventions.

ICSPR strongly condemns the involvement of Microsoft, through its Azure services, in supporting the occupation’s Unit 8200 in analyzing Palestinian communications data, which has contributed to targeting densely populated areas and committing mass killings — a direct partnership in war crimes and genocide that requires international accountability.

The occupation continues to obstruct the entry of humanitarian aid, allowing only 1,115 aid trucks to enter in two weeks, out of the 7,800 trucks needed — equivalent to just 14% of actual requirements. Most of these trucks were looted in the context of a manufactured security chaos pursued by the occupation as part of a systematic policy of “engineering starvation and chaos” aimed at subjugating and controlling the population of the Strip.

ICSPR warns in the strongest terms of the consequences of continued international silence and the complicity of certain powers, which makes them partners in these crimes and threatens what remains of the international legal system. Protecting the Palestinian people and ending this catastrophe is an urgent humanitarian, moral, and legal responsibility. Any delay in action means allowing the completion of genocide and ethnic cleansing against more than 2.3 million people in the Gaza Strip.

Accordingly, ICSPR calls on the international community, the United Nations, and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions and the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide, as well as all free people of the world, to work towards:

1. Declaring Gaza a famine zone and taking immediate action to open safe and permanent humanitarian corridors to ensure the unimpeded flow of food, water, medicine, and fuel, and to guarantee the freedom of work for international organizations, especially UNRWA.

2. Urging the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention to take urgent measures to stop the Israeli aggression, genocide, and plans to reimpose military rule, and to provide international protection for civilians and humanitarian facilities.

3. Calling on the International Criminal Court to expedite investigations into genocide and starvation crimes and to issue new arrest warrants against Israeli war criminals and their accomplices.

4. Urging the UN General Assembly to convene under the “Uniting for Peace” resolution to form an international coalition to protect Palestinian civilians, send an international protection force to Gaza, and impose comprehensive sanctions on Israel, including suspending its UN membership until the occupation ends and the independent State of Palestine is established with Jerusalem as its capital.

5. Stopping all arms supplies to the occupation, imposing a complete military embargo, and holding accountable the states and companies involved in supporting it.