ICSPR: Gaza City is burning under bombardment; its residents face massacres, starvation, and forced displacement, while Israeli crimes also target the Freedom Flotilla in Tunisia
September 9, 2025
Press Release
ICSPR: Gaza City is burning under bombardment; its residents face massacres, starvation, and forced displacement, while Israeli crimes also target the Freedom Flotilla in Tunisia
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) strongly condemns the ongoing crimes of genocide and aggression committed by the Israeli occupation forces against defenseless civilians and infrastructure in Gaza City and across the Strip. These crimes include indiscriminate bombardment with various weapons, deprivation of food and medicine, forced displacement, and the destruction of homes and residential towers.
During the past 24 hours, ICSPR’s research team documented the continuation of massacres carried out through heavy bombardment and the use of explosive robots in the neighborhoods of Al-Nasr, Al-Sabra, Tel Al-Hawa, Al-Daraj, around Sheikh Radwan pool, and other areas west of Gaza City. The most horrific incidents included the bombing of the homes of the Baaloucha and Al-Nimr families in Sheikh Radwan, which resulted in the killing, injury, and disappearance of dozens, including women and children, many of whom remain trapped under the rubble.
ICSPR also documented the targeting and burning of tents belonging to displaced families in Gaza City, as well as the bombing of the headquarters of Aisha Association for the Protection of Women and Children, which killed one of its staff members, a pregnant woman, and a child, in addition to injuring dozens.
According to the Ministry of Health, the bombardment resulted in the killing of 67 civilians and the injury of 320 others, raising the overall death toll since October 7, 2023, to 64,522 martyrs and 163,096 injuries, more than two-thirds of whom are women and children. Thousands of wounded are denied treatment and medicine due to the destruction of hospitals and the obstruction of medical aid entry, causing higher mortality and permanent disabilities.
ICSPR further reported that in the past three days, the occupation escalated its targeting of residential towers, destroying five towers containing 209 apartments that sheltered thousands of families, in addition to demolishing 350 tents for displaced persons, leaving more than 7,600 people homeless, including the elderly, children, and pregnant women. They are now left without shelter, food, or water, in scenes clearly intended to terrorize civilians and force them into mass displacement from Gaza City, while the occupation tightens its siege and destroys what remains of homes, historical landmarks, and civilian facilities.
The occupation continues to target starving civilians gathered at U.S. and Israeli aid distribution centers, while also obstructing and preventing the entry of food, water, and medicine. This has perpetuated famine and severe food insecurity for more than 80% of Gaza’s population amid the near-total collapse of the healthcare system. ICSPR stresses that the occupation is using starvation as a systematic weapon of war within the framework of a full-fledged genocide.
ICSPR strongly condemns the deliberate obstruction of ambulance and rescue crews from reaching civilians trapped under the rubble. The Commission documented 10 official distress calls made through the International Committee of the Red Cross in August, none of which were answered—demonstrating an organized policy of leaving victims to die.
Forced displacement has now become a declared policy openly boasted about by Israeli leaders, led by war criminal Benjamin Netanyahu, who openly threatens civilians to abandon their homes “or face bombardment.” This reaffirms Israel’s premeditated intent to continue its forced displacement policy against Gaza’s residents and impose a new demographic reality.
ICSPR also strongly condemns the criminal attack on the ship Family of the Freedom Flotilla off the Tunisian coast, which was targeted by an incendiary drone. This terrorist act represents a clear Israeli attempt to destroy the lead vessel, terrorize participants, and prevent them from continuing their solidarity journey to the shores of Gaza.
ICSPR calls on the United Nations to activate the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism to ensure mandatory international intervention to stop the genocide and Israeli aggression, provide international protection for civilians and humanitarian facilities in Gaza, establish safe and sustainable humanitarian corridors for the entry of food, water, and medicine, and put an end to the use of starvation as a weapon of war.
ICSPR also demands the immediate launch of an international investigation into the targeting of the Family ship, ensuring the protection of international activists and solidarity participants, and referring this crime—as well as all Israeli crimes—to the International Criminal Court to hold Israeli political and military leaders and their partners accountable. Additionally, the Commission calls for the imposition of comprehensive political, economic, and military sanctions on the occupying state to stop the genocide and protect the Palestinian people from the threat of forced displacement.
Finally, ICSPR calls upon free people and nations worldwide, along with grassroots movements, trade unions, and international civil society organizations, to urgently and massively mobilize through protests and popular pressure to protect Palestinian civilians, stop the genocide, and ensure the Freedom Flotilla reaches Gaza’s shores. The Commission further urges the development of these movements into a global civil disobedience campaign that compels governments to fulfill their legal and moral obligations under the UN Charter and international law.
End
