ICSPR Rings the Alarm Bell on the Humanitarian Collapse Resulting from Genocide, Systematic Starvation, Chaos, and Lawlessness

Date: July 31, 2025

Press Conference Statement
ICSPR Rings the Alarm Bell on the Humanitarian Collapse Resulting from Genocide, Systematic Starvation, Chaos, and Lawlessness—Calling on the International Community and the United Nations to Save the People of Gaza from Ongoing Israeli Crimes

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) held a press conference in front of the Red Crescent gate in Al-Saraya Square in central Gaza City, where the statement was read by Attorney Rana Hadeeb, Director of the Legal Department at ICSPR. She warned of the grave humanitarian situation caused by the ongoing genocide, catastrophic famine, thirst, and the spread of epidemics. She also highlighted the continuing mass killings of starving civilians, their targeting and forced displacement, which have left them living in inhumane conditions without food, water, or medicine—amid the total collapse of health, environmental, and service systems as a result of border closures and obstruction of humanitarian aid.

ICSPR affirms that more than 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are subjected to a systematic genocide based on policies of siege, starvation, mass killing, destruction, and forced displacement. Residents are confined to less than 12% of the area of the Gaza Strip, after 88% of its lands have been declared evacuation or closed zones, inaccessible to civilians.

Within just 24 hours (30–31 July 2025), 111 people were killed and 820 injured, most of them civilians and aid-seekers. Since the start of the Israeli aggression on 7 October 2023, the death toll has reached 60,249, while 147,089 others have been injured and reached hospitals. Since Israel violated the ceasefire on 18 March 2025, the toll has risen to 9,081 martyrs and 35,048 injuries.

ICSPR reports that famine classification data indicate that the entire Gaza Strip has entered the emergency and catastrophic hunger phase, with over 71,000 children (ages 6–59 months) suffering from acute malnutrition, including 14,100 critical cases threatening their lives.

An estimated 18,400 pregnant and breastfeeding women are expected to require treatment for malnutrition, amid the collapse of the healthcare system and absence of therapeutic food.

Since March 2025, approximately 470,000 people have been living under the threat of catastrophic famine (Phase 5), while more than 1.84 million of the population are facing acute food insecurity, with rapidly increasing mortality and nutritional deterioration.

Since March, 155 deaths related to malnutrition have been recorded, including 90 children, in addition to an ongoing rise in cases of fainting due to hunger and signs of severe wasting.

ICSPR confirms that the situation in Gaza represents a famine scenario that is the worst in modern human history, with over 20,000 children enrolled in malnutrition treatment programs, including 3,000 in extremely critical conditions, coinciding with the collapse of the health system and the spread of diseases.

More than 90% of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure has been destroyed, and 32 out of 36 hospitals have completely shut down or are operating at minimal capacity due to fuel shortages and lack of staff and supplies.

The Strip has recorded over:

• 1.1 million cases of acute respiratory infections,

• 669,000 cases of watery diarrhea,

• 225,000 cases of skin diseases,

• 132,000 cases of acute jaundice, and

• 18 cases of acute flaccid paralysis, indicating a possible outbreak of polio.

95% of the population is without access to safe water due to the shutdown of desalination plants and lack of fuel for operation.

ICSPR stresses that Gaza is undergoing a complete economic collapse, with around 400,000 people losing their income sources. Poverty and unemployment have soared to affect over 90% of the population.

Due to severe shortages and the blockade on aid entry, food prices have surged by 312% compared to pre-war levels, amid waves of hoarding and exorbitant inflation in bread and basic necessities.

ICSPR has documented a sharp increase in theft, lawlessness, vigilantism, internal violence, and security breakdown, fueled by the collapse of the police force and official regulatory bodies.

ICSPR warns that the Israeli occupation is weaponizing humanitarian aid to inflict mass killing and social chaos by bombing aid queues (as in the Sudaniyya massacre, which left 51 dead and 648 injured), targeting relief trucks, and inciting organized looting in areas under its control—turning aid distribution into a scene of violence and disorder.

The occupation also targets Palestinian police officers tasked with securing aid, further dismantling the social order and escalating lawlessness and criminal activity.

ICSPR demands an immediate shutdown of the “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation”, a U.S.-based entity complicit in enabling mass killings of civilians. Reports indicate its direct involvement in the killing of more than 1,500 Palestinian aid-seekers, and its facilities have reportedly been used as detention and execution centers within so-called “red zones.”

ICSPR calls for the rejection of tribal violence, vigilantism, and all forms of taking the law into one’s own hands. It urges legal and community-based action against perpetrators of internal crimes, the lifting of factional and tribal protections for them, the formation of popular protection committees, and the strengthening of community justice to safeguard civil peace.

ICSPR appeals to the international community, the United Nations, and third-party signatories to the Geneva Conventions and the Genocide Convention, as well as all free people of the world, to act immediately to end the genocide and starvation war, lift the siege on Gaza, and guarantee unconditional humanitarian and medical aid flow.

ICSPR also urges the UN General Assembly to adopt a binding resolution under Chapter VII through the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism to compel the occupation to cease aggression and lift the siege. It further calls for an international protection mission to ensure civilian safety, aid access, and the delivery of essential life-saving supplies.

Finally, ICSPR affirms that what is happening in Gaza is a deliberate and systematic crime of genocide, ethnic cleansing, and forced starvation, which requires immediate and responsible international action. The organization demands sanctions on Israel, and the prosecution of its leaders, soldiers, and collaborators before international courts.