Israel Continues to Commit Brutal Acts of Genocide and Starvation Against the People of Gaza with American Support and Cover
Date: June 8, 2025
Press Release
Israel Continues to Commit Brutal Acts of Genocide and Starvation Against the People of Gaza with American Support and Cover
The International Commission to Support Palestinians’ Rights (ICSPR) states: While Muslims around the world celebrate the blessed Eid al-Adha, the Israeli occupation forces continue their military aggression and the perpetration of heinous crimes of genocide and brutal massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip for more than 610 consecutive days, with U.S. support and partnership. The most recent of these acts was the use of the U.S. veto against a draft resolution calling for an end to the genocide and for the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid. This effectively gives Israel a green light to continue committing grave crimes and violations against Palestinian civilians. In addition, the U.S. continues to export weapons to Israel and supports the U.S.-Israeli plan to distribute aid as an alternative to the work of international humanitarian organizations. The U.S. has also imposed sanctions on four judges at the International Criminal Court and adopted the Israeli approach in a way that undermines international efforts to end Israeli aggression, ensure humanitarian aid flows, and protect regional and international peace and security.
According to ICSPR’s follow-up and the Palestinian Ministry of Health, (213) civilians were killed and (697) were injured in the past 48 hours during the first and second days of Eid al-Adha due to intensified Israeli artillery and aerial bombardment across various areas of Gaza, especially in the north and Khan Yunis. On the two days of Eid alone, (13) civilians were killed and (100) others injured while gathering at aid distribution centers in Rafah, southern Gaza. This raises the total number of victims at these distribution points to (116) martyrs and (1,000) injured, with (9) missing since aid centers began operating near Israeli military checkpoints on May 27, 2025.
It is worth noting that (41) civilians were killed on the first day of Eid, including doctors, engineers, academics, and children, in a massacre committed by the occupation targeting the Khudr family’s home in Al-Jarn area, Jabalia Al-Balad, in northern Gaza. This amounts to a crime of genocide against humanity and a deliberate act of ethnic cleansing aiming to erase Palestinian families from the civil registry. As a result, the total number of martyrs since October 7, 2023, has exceeded (54,880), 70% of whom are women and children. The number of wounded who reached hospitals stands at (126,227). Since the resumption of the genocide on March 18, 2025, at least (4,600) have been killed and around (13,793) injured, while thousands remain under the rubble. The death toll is expected to rise further as all hospitals in northern Gaza are out of service, and the entire healthcare system is collapsing due to the ban on entry of medical supplies and medicines, threatening the lives of thousands of patients and injured individuals.
ICSPR confirms that the Israeli occupation continues to use starvation as a weapon of war against the population of Gaza, deliberately obstructing the entry of humanitarian aid for over (95) days. Recent aid deliveries cover less than 1% of daily needs, consisting of a single type of food that does not meet basic nutritional requirements. Medical supplies, nutritional supplements, and essential humanitarian items like water and fuel for hospital and municipal generators are still blocked. According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), Gaza is now the hungriest place on earth, with nearly 100% of the population facing severe and catastrophic famine.
ICSPR warns of the collapse of the blood bank infrastructure due to the blockade and the occupation’s prevention of vital medical supplies. Hospitals are facing a critical shortage of blood units due to the prevalence of malnutrition-related illnesses among potential donors, which directly threatens the lives of the wounded.
ICSPR strongly condemns the acts of armed gangs backed by the Israeli occupation that have attacked humanitarian aid trucks and fired upon drivers, resulting in the death of one driver and the severe injury of another on Salah al-Din Street near Deir al-Balah. Israeli officials have admitted to supporting the arming of gang formations in eastern Rafah, which exposes the occupation’s plan to incite chaos, deepen famine, dismantle internal security, and destroy civil peace. Israeli forces have provided these gangs with military support and heavy cover fire as they loot aid and assault civilians. Moreover, occupation forces continue to target police units and aid security teams, resulting in the deaths of (408) aid workers and over (754) aid security personnel, with (80) truck drivers injured and approximately (212) aid trucks disabled.
ICSPR notes that as part of Israel’s ongoing forced displacement policies, occupation forces continue to issue repeated evacuation orders to all residents of northern Gaza, Khan Yunis, and residential areas east of the Strip. Civilians are being pushed into three “humanitarian bubbles” — west Gaza City, the central area, and Al-Mawasi in Khan Yunis where displaced persons are crammed into streets without tents or shelters, enduring catastrophic, inhumane conditions with severe shortages of water, food, and services. These crimes aim to alter the demographic and geographic reality of Gaza. Currently, nearly 80% of the Strip is under Israeli control — either through direct military occupation or classification as red zones — as part of a broader scheme to make Gaza uninhabitable and forcibly displace Palestinians in violation of international humanitarian law and international conventions.
ICSPR states that the occupation continues to target medical teams and ambulances and deliberately seeks to disable the civil defense system by repeatedly attacking humanitarian workers during their duties. Most recently, Israeli forces targeted First Lieutenant Walid Adel Al-Batsh, a civil defense officer, by bombing his home in Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east Gaza City. These acts are part of a systematic policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare and civil defense systems. As a result, 75% of civil defense vehicles are out of service, (118) civil defense personnel and (1,460) health workers have been killed, while (36) hospitals and (81) health centers have been destroyed and rendered non-operational, along with (144) ambulances. The occupation also continues to obstruct ambulance and civil defense teams from evacuating the wounded and martyrs.
ICSPR expresses grave concern for the fate of activists aboard the “Maddalena” Freedom Flotilla ship, which set sail from Italian shores carrying humanitarian aid and (12) international activists in protest against the ongoing genocide and starvation in Gaza. ICSPR denounces the occupation’s threats to arrest these activists and divert the ship to Ashdod port to prevent it from reaching Palestinian territorial waters and Gaza’s shores. These threats reflect a criminal mindset and blatant disregard for international law, and demonstrate Israel’s persistent efforts to isolate and besiege Gaza, starve its residents, and prevent foreign witnesses — including international activists and journalists from entering.
ICSPR also warns that in the most dangerous development of its kind in 30 years, the Israeli government has officially approved the transformation of around (22) illegal settler outposts into recognized settlements across the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem. The plan includes establishing (4) new colonies in Ramallah, Jenin, and Hebron, (2) in Nablus, (3) in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, and (1) in occupied Jerusalem. This represents a dangerous and systematic escalation that aims to reshape the geographic map and pave the way for the annexation of the West Bank without its Palestinian population. It solidifies the illegal settler-colonial regime in brazen violation of international humanitarian law and UN resolutions, including Security Council Resolution 2334 (2016), which reaffirmed the illegality of all Israeli settlement activity in the occupied Palestinian territories.
ICSPR strongly condemns the shameful and repeated position of the United States in using its veto power against the new UN Security Council resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and the unimpeded flow of humanitarian aid despite the support of (14) out of (15) Council members. This reflects the U.S.’s full complicity in Israeli crimes and its abandonment of its responsibilities under international law.
(ICSPR) strongly condemns the imposition of arbitrary sanctions against judges of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague by the United States of America, in what constitutes a crime of denying justice aimed at undermining the Court’s work and preventing it from prosecuting Israeli war criminals — thus reinforcing the law of the jungle and the policy of impunity.
(ICSPR) also condemns the ongoing international complicity, failure, and inability to confront the genocide, starvation, and continuing aggression in Gaza, as well as the escalating crimes being committed against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. ICSPR holds the Israeli occupation authorities and the U.S. administration fully responsible for all ongoing crimes and violations, which constitute blatant breaches of international humanitarian law, the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and relevant UN Security Council resolutions and rulings of the International Court of Justice.
ICSPR affirms that the silence of the international community and its failure to stop the crime of genocide not only undermines the values of humanity and the rules of international law, but also amounts to a crime of failing to fulfill legal, moral, and humanitarian obligations. Protecting humanity and international law cannot be achieved through statements and condemnations alone, but rather through urgent humanitarian interventions as outlined by international humanitarian law and international human rights standards — interventions that require compulsory humanitarian action to protect Palestinian civilians.
Accordingly, ICSPR records and demands the following:
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ICSPR calls on the international community and the states parties to the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions to take immediate and binding measures to stop the crime of genocide, ensure the unconditional flow of urgent humanitarian and medical aid under UN supervision, and to abolish the illegal and unethical U.S.-Israeli aid distribution mechanism.
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ICSPR demands that all countries boycott the Israeli occupation state and impose sanctions against it, including an arms embargo, and calls for the prosecution of its political and military leaders before international courts, while supporting the work of the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice.
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ICSPR calls for the immediate provision of international protection for the residents of the Gaza Strip through mechanisms under Chapter VII of the UN Charter and through the “Uniting for Peace” formula, in order to ensure the formation of an international humanitarian coalition and a peacekeeping force aimed at ending the Israeli occupation, protecting civilians and civilian infrastructure, and establishing safe zones and humanitarian corridors for aid delivery.
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ICSPR demands enabling UNRWA and other humanitarian organizations to carry out their duties without restrictions or obstacles from the Israeli occupation, and ensuring the protection of their staff and all humanitarian workers.
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ICSPR calls on civil society and human rights institutions in the United States to take legal action before American and international courts to prosecute American individuals and entities involved in crimes against civilians — particularly U.S. companies responsible for the joint American-Israeli aid distribution centers.
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ICSPR urges freedom-loving people around the world to continue their efforts and popular movements to pressure third-party states to fulfill their legal and moral obligations, stop the genocide and Israeli aggression, support the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, end the Israeli occupation, and dismantle the racist settler-colonial regime.
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