ICSPR: Gaza is Being Annihilated, Besieged, Destroyed, and Starved in Eerie Silence – The Cycle of Genocide Must Be Broken, and the Occupation Held Accountable

Date: June 23, 2025

Press Release

ICSPR: Gaza is Being Annihilated, Besieged, Destroyed, and Starved in Eerie Silence – The Cycle of Genocide Must Be Broken, and the Occupation Held Accountable

The Israeli occupying power continues to perpetrate horrific crimes against humanity against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the 21st consecutive month. This occurs amid a shameful international failure that amounts to complicity, alongside a glaring absence of media and international attention to the genocide being carried out. These crimes include deepening famine, obstructing humanitarian aid and medical supplies, and the collapse of vital services, all contributing to a humanitarian catastrophe that, according to UN warnings, is nearing the point of no return.

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) expresses grave concern and strong condemnation of the ongoing daily massacres committed by Israeli forces against civilians. According to the Ministry of Health, the number of martyrs received by hospitals has exceeded 56,000, with 131,242 wounded, while thousands of bodies remain trapped under the rubble.

In recent atrocities, Israeli shelling across Gaza led to the killing of 93 Palestinians, targeting civilians in their homes, tents, and even at American-Israeli aid distribution centers, which have turned into death traps. Israeli soldiers and drones have opened fire on civilians, resulting in 18 deaths on Sunday and 16 more on Monday morning. The death toll from these “death aid” incidents has risen to over 480 martyrs, 3,700 wounded, and 39 missing persons, highlighting how aid is being weaponized as a tool of mass killing.

ICSPR warns of the dire consequences of starvation, thirst, and lack of medicine for Gaza’s children, who are increasingly at risk of death due to deliberate destruction of water wells, healthcare infrastructure, and fuel shortages halting water pumping stations.

ICSPR strongly condemns the continued targeting and shutdown of telecommunications and internet services by the occupying forces, which deepens the isolation of besieged civilians and hinders relief efforts.

ICSPR further warns of the imminent collapse of the healthcare system. Due to the blockade and ongoing bombings, hospitals are being rendered non-operational, medicines and medical supplies are critically scarce, and 514 lab devices have gone out of service after more than half of hospital laboratories were targeted and destroyed.

For the second consecutive year, students in Gaza are denied the ability to sit for their high school final exams, unlike the 46,000 students who took exams in the West Bank. The aggression has led to the martyrdom of 16,607 students, injuries to 26,271 others, the killing of 914 teachers and administrators, and the detention of 196 education staff, in one of the most widespread and deliberate assaults on the right to education in Gaza.

ICSPR also warns of Israel and the U.S.’s ongoing efforts to dismantle the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), through defunding, banning its work, targeting its premises and staff, and obstructing humanitarian operations. This is part of a plan to replace UNRWA with American-Israeli mechanisms that lack dignity and neutrality. According to UNRWA’s Commissioner-General, more than two million people are facing famine under a financial crisis threatening the agency’s vital services.

ICSPR denounces the continued closure of Al-Aqsa Mosque, assaults on worshippers, and daily settler incursions into its courtyards—exploiting the war on Iran to impose full Israeli sovereignty. Simultaneously, Israel intensifies colonial settlement expansion, arrests, killings, and the destruction of refugee camps in the West Bank as part of its annexation and Judaization schemes.

ICSPR also condemns the targeted killings and terrorization of journalists to silence media coverage. It has documented repeated attacks on journalist tents near Nasser Medical Complex in Khan Younis, with live fire and missile shrapnel forcing dozens to evacuate. Despite dangerous conditions, journalists continue their work. To date, approximately 230 journalists have been martyred, and hundreds more have been injured or arrested.

ICSPR stresses the gravity of the humanitarian situation in Gaza, where people are crammed into less than 20% of the territory, enduring systematic massacres, forced displacements, famine, and the collapse of health and basic services. The people live in poverty, unemployment, and a deliberate state of chaos fueled by the occupation. Humanity now stands at a critical crossroads that demands immediate moral, legal, and humanitarian responsibility to confront the Israeli-American law of the jungle. What is happening in Gaza is not merely a war of extermination—it is a moral test for the entire international system. Silence in the face of these crimes is complicity and threatens the collapse of international law and human values.

Accordingly, ICSPR calls on the international community, the United Nations, and third-party states to:

1. Immediately stop the genocide, lift the siege, and reopen crossings to ensure dignified humanitarian aid delivery through UN mechanisms, primarily UNRWA, and halt the U.S.-Israeli aid distribution methods.

2. Provide international protection for civilians and refer Israeli crimes to the International Criminal Court (ICC), while activating mechanisms to hold Israeli leaders accountable in international courts.

3. Impose sanctions and boycotts on Israel, including a ban on arms exports and an end to military and security cooperation.

4. Call on global and Arab media and the free people of the world to break the wall of silence, expose the genocide and starvation crimes, and continue pressuring all international and regional organizations to act urgently to stop Israel’s ongoing aggression, end the occupation, and protect Palestinian rights.