ICSPR Warns of the Dangers and Consequences of the Destruction of What Remains of Gaza City and the Forced Displacement of Its Residents, Amid Israel’s Ongoing Crimes of Starvation and Genocide

Date: September 3, 2025

Press Release

ICSPR Warns of the Dangers and Consequences of the Destruction of What Remains of Gaza City and the Forced Displacement of Its Residents, Amid Israel’s Ongoing Crimes of Starvation and Genocide

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) follows with deep concern and strong condemnation the continued escalation of the Israeli occupation’s crimes of genocide, systematic starvation, forced displacement, and targeting of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip, on the 698th consecutive day of the genocidal war.

According to data from the Palestinian Ministry of Health, the toll of Israeli crimes since October 7, 2023, has reached 63,633 martyrs and more than 160,914 injuries, including 11,502 martyrs and 48,900 injuries since March 18, 2025, when the bloody aggression was resumed. More than 11,000 citizens remain missing, many under the rubble of their homes, amid rising cases of enforced disappearance.

ICSPR: During the past 24 hours, the occupation forces committed a number of massacres and horrific attacks through aerial and artillery bombardment and the use of booby-trapped robots. These attacks caused the killing and injury of dozens of citizens, including entire families, due to airstrikes on homes and tents in Tel al-Hawa, Sheikh Radwan, Al-Daraj, and Jabalia Al-Balad neighborhoods. The targeting of a charity kitchen crowded with civilians in Gaza City led to the martyrdom of 3 civilians. The bombing of the Al-Ashi building in Tel al-Hawa, southwest of Gaza, killed 9 civilians, including women and children, before the occupation bombed another apartment west of Tel al-Hawa, leaving 10 martyrs under the rubble. Meanwhile, targeting starving civilians waiting for humanitarian aid in the Netzarim axis and the Mirage area resulted in the martyrdom of 19 aid-seekers. The total number of martyrs at the US-Israeli aid distribution centers has risen to 2,306 martyrs and more than 16,929 injuries.

Journalist Iman Al-Hamad Al-Zamli was shot dead by an Israeli drone while attempting to fetch drinking water near Hamad Towers north of Khan Younis, raising the number of journalists killed since the beginning of the Israeli aggression to 248 martyrs, in blatant violation of international humanitarian law and human rights treaties.

ICSPR: In the past 24 hours, the Ministry of Health recorded 13 deaths due to famine and malnutrition, including 3 children, bringing the total since the beginning of the year to 361 deaths, among them 130 children. Despite the United Nations declaring Gaza a famine zone according to the IPC classification, 83 deaths have already been recorded due to famine, including 15 children. More than 43,000 children under five are suffering from acute malnutrition, and more than 55,000 pregnant and breastfeeding women suffer from malnutrition, 67% of whom are anemic — the highest rate in years. This confirms the lack of improvement in catastrophic humanitarian conditions and the absence of interventions to halt famine. At the same time, the occupation continues to obstruct the entry of humanitarian aid, allowing fewer than 100 trucks per day into Gaza, despite the actual need for 600 trucks daily. This means Israel allows less than 15% of actual needs to enter, while preventing the entry of essential food and medical supplies, and deliberately enabling the looting of aid as part of a systematic policy of genocide, chaos, and starvation.

ICSPR: The residents of Gaza are enduring the greatest humanitarian catastrophe due to daily massacres, the systematic destruction of infrastructure and vital facilities, ongoing forced displacement, collective punishment, and the weaponization of starvation. All of this is part of Israel’s plans to reinstate military rule in Gaza and deport Palestinians, who are being starved and killed amid the glaring failure of the international community to stop the genocide. This continues despite the belated acknowledgment by the International Association of Genocide Scholars that all elements and pillars of the crime of genocide apply to what Israel is committing in Gaza. ICSPR warns of Israel’s declared plan to forcibly displace about 1 million Palestinians under “Gideon’s Chariots 2 Plan,” leaving 2.3 million residents in “camps resembling Nazi prisons,” facing death from hunger and thirst. ICSPR also condemns the continuation of colonial settlement crimes in the West Bank and settler incursions into the courtyards of Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Accordingly, ICSPR demands:

• The United Nations to convene the General Assembly under the Uniting for Peace formula to take immediate measures to stop the genocide and ethnic cleansing of starving Palestinian civilians, compel Israel to open all crossings without restrictions, allow the entry of urgent humanitarian, food, and medical aid, and enable UNRWA and international organizations to perform their duties without obstruction.

• The imposition of urgent international sanctions on Israel as a state responsible for genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, alongside halting all military, financial, and political support for it, and prosecuting Israeli leaders responsible for genocide, war, and crimes against humanity before international courts.

• The peoples and free voices of the world, especially in the United States, to lead influential popular movements such as peaceful sit-ins in front of parliaments, governments, and companies complicit in genocide, as well as in front of Israeli and American embassies. These actions should coincide with the launch of the Flotilla of Steadfastness and exert pressure on state parties to the Geneva Conventions and the Convention on the Prevention of Genocide to fulfill their legal and moral obligations to stop genocide and starvation, and to impose peace and justice.