ICSPR: Israel continues to escalate genocide crimes against civilians, using starvation and aid as weapons of killing, issuing more forced displacement orders, concentrating Gaza’s population in 15% of the Strip’s area, and destroying cities and residential areas
Date: July 4, 2025
Press Release
ICSPR: Israel continues to escalate genocide crimes against civilians, using starvation and aid as weapons of killing, issuing more forced displacement orders, concentrating Gaza’s population in 15% of the Strip’s area, and destroying cities and residential areas.
The International Commission to Support the Palestinian People’s Rights “ICSPR” is following with great concern the increasing pace of brutal massacres, targeting of civilians, and the destruction of residential neighborhoods and shelter centers that have affected all parts of the Gaza Strip during the past (48) hours. According to information available to the Commission, (280) martyrs have arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals, including (91) who were waiting for aid in the central and southern areas of the Strip, as shooting by occupation soldiers and American contractors at the hungry during their attempts to obtain food has become routine. The total number of massacres in front of American aid centers has reached nearly 700 martyrs and 5,000 wounded, in addition to dozens missing.
On the other hand, during the last 48 hours, the occupation forces intensified their raids on shelter centers. This morning, the occupation aircraft targeted Al-Zaytoun School, which houses displaced persons on Al-Basateen Street in eastern Gaza City, while Fadel Al-Sabah School on Yaffa Street in Al-Tuffah neighborhood in eastern Gaza City was also bombed, as well as Mostafa Hafez School, which houses displaced persons in Al-Rimal neighborhood in western Gaza City. This led to the martyrdom of (16) people, most of them children and women, while search operations for the missing are still ongoing amid a shortage of search tools.
Occupation aircraft also targeted the tents of the displaced in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, where this morning 15 citizens, mostly from the Abu Khdeir family, were martyred and others injured in a bombing of a tent housing displaced family members near the Tayba Towers west of Khan Younis. Yesterday, occupation aircraft bombed a tent belonging to the Abu Asi family on Al-Istabl Street in the Al-Mawasi area west of Khan Younis, resulting in the martyrdom of (14) people. Similarly, the bombing of a tent in Al-Baraka camp in Al-Mawasi, Deir al-Balah, led to the martyrdom of (5) citizens. An Israeli drone strike on a tent housing displaced people near Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital led to the martyrdom of 10 citizens.
(3) citizens were martyred and others injured when occupation aircraft bombed a house in the Al-Sabra neighborhood south of Gaza City, while artillery shelling of the western roundabout in Beit Lahia, northern Strip, led to the martyrdom of 3 citizens on Thursday afternoon. On Friday, 14 citizens were martyred and dozens injured or burned as a result of Israeli army bombing of two houses in Jabalia and Al-Tuffah neighborhood in Gaza Strip. The bombing of the Dadda family home in Jabalia town led to the martyrdom of 10 citizens and injuries to others, most of them in serious condition.
The Commission also documented the deliberate targeting by occupation forces of three freed prisoners from the 2011 “Wafa al-Ahrar” deal who were forcibly deported to Gaza, namely: martyr Mahdi Shaour, Ayman Abu Dawoud, and Bassam Abu Suninah, in a crime that confirms the occupation’s intent to eliminate and assassinate them with their families. The remaining martyrs were killed in Israeli raids on various areas of the Strip in a series of massacres committed by the occupation forces against families, raising the death toll of the genocide war and the aggression launched by the Israeli occupation forces on the Gaza Strip to 57,268 martyrs and 135,625 injured since October 7, 2023. Among them, 6,710 martyrs and 23,584 injuries occurred since March 18 of this year, when the occupation resumed its aggression following the ceasefire agreement.
ICSPR: Condemns the continued targeting of medical teams by the occupation.
In a heinous crime, the occupation bombed the home of the director of the Indonesian Hospital, Dr. Marwan Al-Sultan, located at the 17th roundabout west of Gaza, which led to his martyrdom along with all members of his family. This is a clear indication of the deliberate targeting and revenge against medical personnel and their families as part of the continued genocide of the healthcare sector. This brings the number of martyrs from the healthcare sector to 1,582 medical personnel, in addition to hundreds injured and 362 detained, including doctors and paramedics.
This comes as the Strip witnesses a severe collapse in the provision of services due to the ongoing closure of the crossings and the prevention of the entry of humanitarian supplies, medical equipment, medicine, and fuel necessary for hospital operation for the 100th consecutive day. This has led to the martyrdom of dozens of wounded and patients, and continues to expose the lives of patients—especially children in incubators—to the risk of death. Occupation forces continue to prevent the medical evacuation of more than 14,000 patients and wounded to hospitals outside Gaza.
In the context of this collapse, the administration of Al-Shifa Medical Complex in Gaza announced the complete halt of dialysis services, threatening the lives of 350 patients. It is noted that 41% of kidney patients, approximately 1,200 patients, have died over the past 20 months due to being deprived of regular access to treatment.
Meanwhile, Gaza is witnessing a worrying and dangerous outbreak of meningitis, with the Ministry of Health recording hundreds of cases among children, amid a severe shortage of essential antibiotics to treat such diseases. The catastrophe worsens as most hospitals go out of service and wounded and patients face extreme difficulty accessing healthcare and operational hospitals amid service and medicine shortages.
ICSPR: The Israeli occupation forces continue issuing forced evacuation orders against Gaza Strip residents amid shameful international failure, as 85% of Gaza’s area has become occupied or within evacuation zones, with one million displaced people crammed into an area not exceeding 12% of the Strip’s total. Israel continues to issue evacuation orders, now exceeding 54 orders since the genocide war resumed. The occupation forces are targeting civilians and forcing them into displacement while continuing the systematic destruction of cities, camps, and residential neighborhoods.
Israel also continues to target civilians in their displacement locations through direct bombings of tents and gatherings. The intensification of mass killings in these areas reflects the occupation’s deliberate expansion of genocide, ongoing for about 21 months, in addition to creating inhumane conditions meant to annihilate the population by forcing them to live in shelters and worn-out tents lacking services, amid extreme famine, water scarcity, and the spread of diseases and epidemics.
ICSPR warns of the deepening humanitarian catastrophe threatening the lives of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, who are living a horrifying reality of slow death through severe famine, obstruction and prevention of humanitarian aid access, thirsting, and systematic denial of access to clean and safe water as part of the genocide crime.
The occupation forces continue to use collective punishment policies against civilians in Gaza by closing crossings, preventing all forms of humanitarian aid, and cutting energy and fuel supplies, rendering Gaza uninhabitable.
Throughout the genocide war, occupation forces have used starvation and thirst as weapons of war and means of collective punishment, leading to the deaths of 66 children from hunger and 247 patients. Yesterday, Ayoub Abu Al-Hussain, a 29-year-old man with disabilities, died from acute malnutrition and was brought to the hospital dead—a shocking and tragic development that reflects the scale of the worsening humanitarian disaster and the horrors of starvation.
There is no food source in Gaza except American and Israeli aid distribution centers, which have become sites of death, killing, and humiliation. Notably, 110 daily cases of malnutrition are being recorded among children, women, and the elderly.
ICSPR strongly condemns the continued perpetration of massacres against starving civilians gathered at American and Israeli aid distribution points. All international, legal, and journalistic investigations—including the latest testimonies by The Associated Press—have confirmed that American contractors guarding distribution sites in Gaza are using live ammunition to target starving civilians waiting for aid. This clearly indicates participation in the deliberate killing of civilians, none of whom posed any threat to the occupation soldiers or staff working at the aid distribution centers.
ICSPR also condemns the crimes committed by the Israeli occupation in forming gang-like formations cooperating with its forces in Gaza City, such as the “Abu Shabab” militia, which operates in the southern Gaza Strip with explicit Israeli support. These groups are used for intelligence gathering, home invasions, and searches, in addition to looting, spreading chaos, and killing innocent civilians. The latest of these crimes was the assault on Al-Nasser Hospital and humanitarian aid convoys.
ICSPR highlights that the West Bank is witnessing a series of violations aimed at annexing the occupied territory in defiance of international law and to consolidate the illegal occupation of Palestinian lands. The West Bank has seen the forced displacement of over 40,000 people amid worsening access to essential and health services. Daily arrests continue, along with settler attacks and an intensification of colonial settlement expansion through the establishment of new outposts. As of May 2025, there are around 270 settlement outposts in the West Bank, including agricultural ones.
In Jerusalem and its surroundings, repeated incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque by settlers continue, while Palestinian worshippers are systematically prevented from accessing places of worship. Residents of Jerusalem are subjected to arrest, abuse, and harassment, all as part of ongoing efforts to forcibly displace them in line with Israeli settler-colonial plans to annex the West Bank and Judaize Jerusalem, in blatant violation of UN resolutions, the International Court of Justice, and international humanitarian law.
ICSPR values and supports the report prepared by the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese. The report is based on over 200 submissions from states, human rights defenders, companies, and academics—including ICSPR—and provides a comprehensive legal and economic analysis of the occupation’s structure. It documents grave violations involving 60 companies and economic institutions financially linked to Israel’s system of apartheid and militarization, transforming genocide into a profit-driven project. This necessitates the cessation of business ties with Israel and the legal accountability of corporate executives for violations of international law. It also calls for the activation of economic accountability and boycotts, and a restructuring of the relationship between capital and human rights as a humanitarian, ethical, and legal imperative.
ICSPR, while strongly condemning the escalating genocide and grave violations being perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces in Gaza and the West Bank, also denounces the international silence and failure to provide protection for civilians. It sees the international inaction—especially from High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions—as explicit complicity that fuels the culture of impunity and provides political cover for Israel to continue committing its crimes.
ICSPR denounces the continued delay in the path toward international justice and the absence of serious accountability for Israeli leaders and their partners. It expresses deep concern over the stalled negotiations amid the worsening humanitarian catastrophe and famine in Gaza caused by the siege and obstruction of humanitarian aid. It commends the decision of the Swiss Federal Supervisory Authority for Charities to dissolve the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF)” and calls for continued legal and diplomatic efforts to halt the criminal American-Israeli aid distribution mechanism. It demands that aid be distributed through UN mechanisms, especially UNRWA.
Based on the above, ICSPR demands the following:
- ICSPR calls on the international community, the United Nations, and the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention to take immediate and decisive humanitarian action to stop the genocide, provide protection to civilians in the occupied Palestinian territories, hold the occupying authorities accountable, and ensure the urgent flow of humanitarian aid, fuel, medicine, and medical supplies to Gaza to save lives.
- ICSPR urges the international community to take urgent measures to halt Israeli occupation crimes against civilians and civilian infrastructure in Gaza and the West Bank. It calls for serious action toward boycott, sanctions, and holding Israeli leaders and soldiers accountable before international courts, leading to the dismantling of the colonial, settler, apartheid system.
- ICSPR demands that the International Criminal Court investigate the crimes committed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation against starving civilians, along with other companies involved in the crime of genocide, and issue arrest warrants for all perpetrators of genocide and other grave violations in the occupied Palestinian territories.
- ICSPR calls for support for the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on Palestine, the international fact-finding mission, and the International Criminal Court. It calls for confronting threats and pressure campaigns against them and ensuring their ability to expose genocide crimes, complete investigations, stop the ongoing crimes against Palestinians, hold those responsible accountable, and uphold the principles of international law.
