ICSPR The Escalating Targeting of Civil Police, Displacement Tents, and Residential Homes in Gaza Reveals the Occupation’s Determination to Kill and Spread Chaos

Date: 24 May 2026

Press Release

ICSPR The Escalating Targeting of Civil Police, Displacement Tents, and Residential Homes in Gaza Reveals the Occupation’s Determination to Kill, Spread Chaos, and Dismantle the Foundations of Life in Gaza

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) condemns in the strongest terms the ongoing Israeli massacres and crimes against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, including the targeting of a site belonging to the Palestinian police force in the Al-Tawam area north of Gaza City, the bombardment of inhabited homes and displacement tents, and the targeting of civilians by quadcopter drones, as part of a systematic policy directed against the civilian population, institutional structures, and civilian objects, in the context of the ongoing genocide and aggression against the Gaza Strip.

The International Commission ICSPR affirms that the Israeli crime and massacre targeting the Palestinian police force resulted in the killing of six police personnel and officers and one civilian child, namely: Major Mohammed Fathi Muslih Al-Arr, Major Rami Mohammed Ahmed Al-Hanawi, Major Abdul Hadi Zuhdi Awad Jarbou’, Lieutenant Salem Adel Daoud Haniyeh, Assistant Hani Hamdi Ibrahim Al-Madhoun, and the child Saber Abdul Rahman Jarbou’, in a compound crime that falls within the policy of systematically targeting Palestinian law-enforcement institutions and civilian bodies in order to undermine public order and spread chaos and social collapse. This crime coincided with the bombing of the Abu Malouh family home in Nuseirat refugee camp, killing three people and injuring three others, as well as the bombing of a tent sheltering displaced people opposite Tayba Towers west of Khan Younis, which killed المواطن Mohammed Salah Abu Habib and injured several others, including children, while the young woman Fatima Al-Zahraa Ramzi Ahmed Al-Ma’ani, 26, from Deir al-Balah, was killed after being shot by a quadcopter drone, in addition to the killing of Mohammed Tawfiq Awad Ramadan, 35, near Wadi Gaza, in a clear continuation of the policy of mass killing and targeting civilians across all areas of the Strip.

The International Commission ICSPR indicates that the danger of the escalating targeting of residential homes, destroyed neighborhoods, and displacement tents comes within the framework of a deliberate Israeli policy aimed at destroying what remains of the residential environment in the Gaza Strip and turning it into an area unfit for life, thereby entrenching the crime of genocide and deepening the forced displacement of the civilian population. Documented human rights data confirm that occupation forces have destroyed more than 80 percent of homes in the Gaza Strip in recent months and have forced hundreds of thousands of residents to flee to tents and rudimentary shelters or to live on the ruins of their destroyed homes, in the absence of even the minimum requirements for human life or safe housing alternatives.

The International Commission ICSPR considers that the occupation’s return to bombing partially damaged homes or homes that residents tried to repair through rudimentary means, alongside issuing evacuation orders and making phone calls before bombing, grants no legal legitimacy to these attacks. Rather, it confirms prior knowledge of the presence of civilians in the targeted areas and reflects the deliberate use of forced displacement and collective terror as a weapon of war to subjugate the civilian population and expand the circle of displacement and humanitarian suffering. The Commission also stresses that targeting homes, displacement tents, and densely populated residential neighborhoods constitutes a flagrant violation of the rules of international humanitarian law, especially the principles of distinction and proportionality and the prohibition of collective punishment, and amounts to war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Geneva Conventions and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.

The International Commission ICSPR further affirms that targeting the civil police force, which carries out duties related to maintaining internal security, protecting civilians, securing humanitarian aid, preventing chaos, and protecting public and private property, constitutes a full-fledged war crime, especially amid the continued targeting of police officers during a period that is supposedly covered by understandings and ceasefire arrangements, reflecting clear contempt for the efforts of mediators and the international community and a determination to dismantle the Palestinian social and institutional structure and undermine public order and civil peace. Announced data indicate that the number of martyrs from the Palestinian police force has risen to 42 since the ceasefire agreement came into effect last October, which reflects the occupation’s insistence on targeting every manifestation of civil administration and public life in the Gaza Strip.

The International Commission ICSPR stresses that what occupation forces are carrying out inside areas under broad military control, and what is referred to as the “yellow zone,” reflects a systematic pattern aimed at turning the Gaza Strip into an area that repels its population and will remain unfit for life in the future, through the destruction of homes, infrastructure, water networks, electricity grids, sewage systems, and agricultural lands, and through preventing the entry of reconstruction materials, fuel, and humanitarian aid, leading to a total collapse in basic services and depriving the population of their fundamental rights to housing, food, water, healthcare, and education.

The International Commission ICSPR emphasizes that the silence and incapacity of the international community, the continued failure to hold the Israeli occupation accountable, and the failure to implement the decisions of the International Court of Justice and relevant UN resolutions have encouraged the occupation to continue committing war crimes and crimes against humanity, including willful killing, widespread destruction, systematic targeting of civilian institutions and humanitarian, medical, relief, and media personnel, and the imposition of starvation policies and genocide against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip. The Commission also warns of the grave consequences of the continued targeting of law-enforcement bodies, civilian institutions, and displacement tents, given the catastrophic implications this has for public security, civil peace, and the protection of the basic rights of civilians.

The International Commission ICSPR calls on the international community, the United Nations, the High Contracting Parties to the Geneva Conventions, and the mediators to take urgent action to stop the crimes of systematic targeting of civilians and civilian institutions in the Gaza Strip, open serious international investigations into the crimes of targeting the Palestinian police force, displacement tents, and inhabited homes, hold those responsible for these crimes accountable before international justice, ensure urgent international protection for Palestinian civilians and those working in civil, humanitarian, and service sectors, and act immediately to stop Israeli war crimes, the siege, starvation, and collective punishment imposed on the Gaza Strip, and to guarantee that perpetrators of international crimes do not enjoy impunity.

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