ICSPR The Israeli occupation continues to commit acts of genocide, turning the Gaza Strip into a devastated, disaster-stricken, and uninhabitable area by using all tools of killing, including the spread of hunger, thirst, chaos, displacement, and disease
Date: June 27, 2025
Press Release
ICSPR The Israeli occupation continues to commit acts of genocide, turning the Gaza Strip into a devastated, disaster-stricken, and uninhabitable area by using all tools of killing, including the spread of hunger, thirst, chaos, displacement, and disease.
ICSPR follows with strong condemnation and grave concern the ongoing commission of horrific genocide and crimes against humanity by the Israeli occupying power against more than two million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip for the 21st consecutive month. This occurs amid blatant international failure reaching the level of complicity and with significant global and media neglect of the ongoing genocide, which Israeli occupation forces persist in carrying out. Simultaneously, famine deepens, and humanitarian and medical aid is deliberately obstructed, destroying the foundations of life in Gaza and making the Strip uninhabitable. The collapse of essential services looms amid UN warnings of an approaching humanitarian catastrophe beyond the point of no return.
In recent crimes, continuous Israeli bombardment across the Gaza Strip since dawn today has led to the martyrdom of 72 Palestinians and injury of 174, in a series of massacres targeting civilians in their homes, displaced persons’ tents, and in front of American-Israeli aid distribution centers. Among the casualties this morning were 10 civilians waiting on Salah al-Din Street near the American-Israeli aid center in central Gaza near the Netzarim axis. An Israeli drone strike on a tent sheltering displaced persons in Khan Younis killed 3 civilians, including two children. Six others were killed near the Martyrs’ Roundabout in Al-Bureij camp. Additional deaths and injuries occurred from attacks on a residential apartment near the Thai restaurant in Gaza City, a school building in Al-Daraj area near Jabalia, and Osama bin Zaid school, which shelters displaced people in the Al-Saftawi area of northern Gaza.
As of today, the number of confirmed martyrs who reached hospitals since the beginning of the aggression on October 7, 2023, has surpassed 56,331, with over 138,260 injured, according to the Ministry of Health. Tens of thousands of bodies remain under the rubble. Since March 18, 2025, alone, there have been 6,008 martyrs, including 570 in front of American-Israeli aid distribution centers.
ICSPR states that the Israeli occupation continues to reduce Gaza’s “safe zones,” with 82% of the Strip’s area now either active combat zones or under forced evacuation orders, exposing civilians to constant danger. Thousands of displaced people are now living among ruins, in open streets, or exposed lands without access to food, water, or medicine, in catastrophic conditions.
ICSPR expresses deep concern over the continued, deliberate massacres committed by Israeli forces against starving civilians, particularly in front of aid distribution centers which have become death traps. According to an investigation by Haaretz, Israeli soldiers admitted to receiving orders to shoot unarmed aid-seekers using various weapons, despite posing no threat. This confirms previous documentation by ICSPR and other humanitarian organizations that these are intentional genocidal acts. Israeli forces have killed 570 and injured 4,066, with 39 missing, most recently 10 killed this morning alone.
ICSPR also condemns the ongoing targeting of journalists by Israeli forces to prevent media coverage. Today, journalist Ahmad Saad was killed, raising the total number of media martyrs to 227.
ICSPR condemns the violent attack on Nasser Medical Complex, describing it as a crime that warrants accountability. A group of individuals, reportedly affiliated with a certain family, opened fire inside the hospital yesterday, assaulted staff and patients, vandalized property, and set several ambulances on fire. ICSPR warns against the rise in attacks on public institutions and the spread of lawlessness, including price gouging, looting, family feuds, and use of force by armed individuals—some reportedly affiliated with factions—against civilians, all of which undermine the rule of law and tear at the social fabric.
ICSPR reports that the Israeli occupation has continued to close border crossings to Gaza for nearly four months, only allowing in a very limited number of aid trucks, which do not meet the minimum humanitarian needs. This has placed 2.4 million people—1.1 million children and over 500,000 women—at risk of unprecedented humanitarian disasters. Most recently, two infants died at Nasser Hospital due to malnutrition and lack of necessary treatment, raising the total number of hunger- and medicine-related deaths to 244.
ICSPR rejects repeated Israeli claims that “Hamas controls and steals aid,” describing these as false and misleading allegations unsupported by any evidence. These claims contradict reports from international organizations operating in Gaza, such as Anera, which confirmed that aid reached its warehouses safely, secured by local tribes in northern Gaza. Similarly, the World Food Programme (WFP) has expressed its intention to halt aid coordination due to the chaotic distribution system imposed by the Israeli occupation.
ICSPR is deeply concerned about the deliberate looting of aid by gangs allegedly directed by the Israeli occupation. Israel refuses to organize the distribution process and intentionally targets police officers and humanitarian aid protection teams. The latest incident occurred yesterday, Thursday, June 26, 2025, when Israeli forces targeted a group of security personnel and civilians in Deir al-Balah during aid distribution near Al-Baraka roundabout, killing 17 people, mostly women and children. This brings the number of aid protection personnel killed to over 800.
ICSPR also expresses alarm over reports of narcotic pills (oxycodone) found in flour sacks distributed at American-Israeli aid centers. Four citizens testified to discovering these pills inside flour bags. It is suspected that the pills were deliberately placed by the Israeli occupation to spread addiction and destroy the Palestinian social fabric. Doctor Hossam Hamouda revealed that the flour bags contained high-risk oxycodone, which can cause respiratory failure, loss of consciousness, hallucinations, and aggressive behavior. ICSPR calls for an international investigation into the use of aid as a tool of genocide and population harm by the Israeli occupation and the American-Israeli aid distribution companies.
ICSPR condemns the ongoing international failure and inaction to stop the genocide, starvation, and aggression in Gaza, as well as escalating crimes against civilians in the West Bank and Jerusalem, which constitute war crimes and crimes against humanity. ICSPR holds the Israeli occupation and the U.S. administration fully responsible for all ongoing violations, which represent blatant breaches of international humanitarian law, the 1948 Genocide Convention, the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, and UN Security Council and ICJ resolutions.
ICSPR stresses that the silence and paralysis of the international community in the face of genocide is not only a betrayal of human values and international law, but also amounts to direct complicity, threatening the collapse of legal norms and humanitarian principles.
ICSPR calls on:
- Global and Arab media and all free people to break the silence and expose the genocide and systematic starvation of Gaza.
- An end to looting and attacks on humanitarian aid, which is the lifeline of Gaza’s starving population.
- International actors to confront Israeli strategies aimed at dismantling Gaza’s social fabric, fostering chaos and internal conflict, and transforming the Strip into an uninhabitable zone riddled with hunger, disease, and crime—all part of a plan to depopulate Gaza and force migration from Palestinian territories.
ICSPR demands:
- Immediate international action by states signatory to the Genocide Convention and the Geneva Conventions to stop the genocide and ensure unrestricted humanitarian and medical aid delivery under UN supervision, ending the illegal and unethical U.S.-Israeli aid mechanism.
- Global sanctions and boycott of the Israeli occupying power, including an arms embargo and prosecution of Israeli political and military leaders before international courts.
- Urgent international protection for Gaza’s population under Chapter VII of the UN Charter and through the “Uniting for Peace” framework, to create an international humanitarian alliance and peacekeeping force to end the occupation and protect civilians and infrastructure.
- Enabling UNRWA and other humanitarian organizations to carry out their duties without obstruction by the Israeli occupation and ensuring the protection of humanitarian workers.
- Civil society and human rights groups in the U.S. to take legal action against American individuals and companies complicit in crimes against Palestinian civilians, especially those involved in managing American-Israeli aid centers.
- All free people worldwide to continue grassroots movements and public pressure on third-party states to fulfill their ethical and legal obligations to end the genocide and Israeli aggression, and to support the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, the end of the occupation, and the dismantling of the apartheid-colonial regime.
