ICSPR Welcomes the Report of the UN International Fact-Finding Committee and Calls for Mandatory International Action to Stop Genocide, Starvation, and Forced Displacement in Palestine

Date: September 17, 2025

Press Release

ICSPR Welcomes the Report of the UN International Fact-Finding Committee and Calls for Mandatory International Action to Stop Genocide, Starvation, and Forced Displacement in Palestine

The International Commission to Support Palestinians’ Rights (ICSPR) welcomes the report issued by the UN’s permanent International Fact-Finding Committee, which clearly confirmed that the Israeli occupation forces are committing genocide against the Palestinian people, including systematic starvation, forced displacement, and large-scale destruction. The report emphasized that the continuation of Israel’s military occupation, its crimes, and its policies of racial discrimination, settler colonialism, and state terror constitute the root causes of instability, the prolongation of conflict in the region, and the ongoing threat to the Palestinian people’s rights, as well as to regional and international security.

ICSPR values the legal and professional efforts of the International Fact-Finding Committee and considers its report an important international legal document that adds to the series of UN resolutions and reports documenting Israel’s crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and the crime of aggression. The report also reaffirmed the denial of the Palestinian people’s inalienable right to self-determination. ICSPR stresses that the report presented further conclusive evidence that the occupation has no intention of ending the genocide; rather, it continues committing crimes of extermination in Gaza, pursuing colonial annexation in the West Bank, and insisting on ethnic cleansing to alter the geography and demographic composition of Gaza and the West Bank in preparation for emptying the land of its indigenous people.

ICSPR reiterates its warning that the continued failure and silence of the international community in the face of these crimes amounts to complicity and participation in them. The committee’s findings confirm that Israel exploits this failure to commit more massacres, destruction, starvation, and displacement, which heralds the creation of a new Nakba for millions of Palestinians. The escalation of Israel’s military aggression against Gaza City, the ongoing mass killings, the systematic destruction of its historical landmarks and civilian homes, alongside policies of siege and starvation that have exacerbated famine, spread disease, and led to the collapse of the health system, all confirm Israel’s determination to kill Palestinians, destroy Gaza, and forcibly displace its population—threatening Palestinian existence as a whole and undermining international law, justice, and the principles of human rights.

ICSPR affirms that the Israeli government, with direct U.S. support, continues its war of genocide to depopulate Gaza, using negotiations as a cover to prolong aggression and rejecting all initiatives that ensure an end to the war, the entry of sufficient humanitarian aid, and reconstruction according to the Egyptian, Arab, and international plan. The targeting of the negotiating delegation in Doha, a blatant violation, reflects Israel’s insistence on continuing genocide and imposing forced displacement and ethnic cleansing as the only option. This leaves the international community opposed to genocide with no alternative but mandatory humanitarian intervention to stop it, as affirmed by the Fact-Finding Committee’s report.

ICSPR stresses that history and justice will not spare those responsible for genocide, nor those who fail to act to stop it. Protecting the Palestinian people and ending genocide is no longer a political choice but a legal and moral obligation upon the entire international community, to end the law of the jungle and preserve the principles of humanity, law, and international justice. Accordingly, ICSPR calls for:

1. Full implementation of the Fact-Finding Committee’s recommendations and treating its report as a binding legal and practical reference, requiring urgent measures to stop genocide, lift the siege, prevent famine, and halt forced displacement policies.

2. The United Nations and General Assembly: act under the “Uniting for Peace” formula to assume the Security Council’s powers, and urgently adopt a resolution to deploy an international protection force to safeguard civilians, end the occupation, stop genocide, famine, and displacement, and open safe humanitarian corridors for unrestricted delivery of food, medicine, and fuel, while guaranteeing the freedom of international organizations, particularly UNRWA, to operate.

3. The International Criminal Court: incorporate the report into its confirmed evidence, accelerate investigations, and expand arrest warrants to include Israeli leaders and all complicit states, companies, and individuals in the crime of genocide. Work alongside the International Court of Justice to expedite a binding ruling recognizing Israel’s commission of genocide, with a clear order to stop it, and hold Israel and its partners legally and financially accountable.

4. The European Union: move from statements to action by imposing comprehensive sanctions, including suspending the partnership agreement, enforcing boycott measures, banning arms supplies, and halting any political, economic, or security support that fuels genocide.

5. Palestine, Arab and Islamic states, and third states: implement resolutions of Arab and Islamic summits, uphold the responsibility mandated by international law to stop genocide, cut ties with Israel, impose sanctions, and form an Arab-international alliance to confront Israel’s displacement schemes and aggression in the region.

6. Civil society and free peoples worldwide: escalate popular mobilization up to a global civil disobedience movement to pressure governments and international organizations to stop the ongoing genocide before it is too late.