Israel Traps Gaza’s Residents Between the Triangle of Death Bombardment, Starvation, and Disease

Date: 26-4-2025

Press Statement and Urgent Appeal

Israel Traps Gaza’s Residents Between the Triangle of Death: Bombardment, Starvation, and Disease
We call on the free people of the world ,organizations, states, and peoples ,to take action and form an international coalition to confront the crimes of genocide and starvation against the population of the Gaza Strip.

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) strongly condemns the continued perpetration of the ongoing crime of genocide by the Israeli occupation forces for the 18th consecutive month, including the ongoing closure of the crossings into the Strip and the prevention of humanitarian aid for the 54th consecutive day. Meanwhile, the occupation forces continue to expand their brutal military offensive after breaching the ceasefire agreement on March 18, 2025. This has resulted, so far, in the martyrdom of nearly 2,000 civilians and the injury of more than 5,000 others over the course of 40 days—raising the number of victims of the ongoing genocide war for the 18th consecutive month to more than 65,000 martyrs and missing persons, and more than 17,000 wounded, 65% of whom are children and women.

This comes in addition to the destruction of 88% of Gaza’s buildings, homes, facilities, and infrastructure, which the Israeli occupation forces continue to target—especially tents and displacement centers, homes, and hospitals—using all kinds of internationally prohibited weapons, indiscriminately and without any justification. All of this is taking place amidst a widespread famine due to the continued closure of crossings, the prevention of humanitarian aid, and the depletion of food supplies, which has exacerbated and deepened the long-term humanitarian catastrophe threatening the lives of 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza, half of whom are children.

ICSPR reports that during the month of April, the occupation forces issued approximately 31 forced evacuation orders in different areas of the Strip, resulting in the displacement of more than half a million people now living in catastrophic conditions—in overcrowded, worn-out tents and shelters that house thousands in fragmented, insecure areas lacking humanitarian and health services. The number of forcibly displaced persons continues to rise daily in light of the daily targeting of civilians and the perpetration of massacres using all kinds of prohibited weapons. These attacks deliberately kill and wound people inside the overcrowded shelters and tents or destroy the remaining homes over the heads of those inside. This has forced the population to live within less than one-third of Gaza’s total area, while hunger, thirst, diseases, and epidemics are spreading amid the collapse of health and humanitarian services and the accumulation of garbage near residential gatherings.

Meanwhile, thousands of civilians remain without any shelter, as the number of displaced people exceeds 2 million, and the shelters and displacement tents remain overcrowded. These displaced people suffer from lack of services, severe shortages of water, food, and medicine, lack of privacy and hygiene, and chaos due to overcrowding, limited resources, and the lack of humanitarian aid caused by the 54-day-long closure of crossings and prevention of aid.

ICSPR warns that the ongoing blockade on Gaza and the denial of the entry of humanitarian aid, equipment, medicines, and medical supplies for the 54th consecutive day has led to a collapse in humanitarian conditions and posed enormous, irreversible risks to the lives of civilians—especially the sick and wounded. This comes as Israeli forces continue to destroy hospitals and health centers and render them non-operational amid a rise in the number of injured and chronically ill patients who have lost access to medicine and healthcare. Epidemics and deadly diseases are spreading again due to the proliferation of rodents and mosquitoes, water pollution, and the shortage of drinkable water after desalination plants shut down. Skin diseases, hepatitis, respiratory illnesses, and intestinal diseases are rampant, and there is concern over the return of the polio epidemic due to the prevention of vaccinations, which may increase the death toll from famine, disease, and worsening conditions for the wounded—especially with the continued prevention of medical evacuation for 24,000 patients and wounded to receive treatment outside Gaza as the local healthcare system collapses.

During the past week, ICSPR documented the deliberate targeting by occupation forces of civil defense vehicles, ambulances, and heavy machinery—destroying 36 machines, including excavators and water tankers used in debris removal, humanitarian missions, rescue operations, and road clearing to set up new displacement camps. This indicates a clear intention by the Israeli occupation forces to obstruct humanitarian efforts, impede rescue teams, municipal services, and evacuation operations for genocide victims, and paralyze all efforts to restore basic life.

ICSPR asserts that the statements made by Israeli and American officials, combined with the realities on the ground, demonstrate a persistent determination to continue the genocide war, show complete contempt for Palestinians’ right to life, and a total disregard for all rules of international humanitarian law, human rights standards, the measures of the International Court of Justice, and UN resolutions. The Israeli occupation forces continue to expand their military assault on civilians, deepen ground invasions, and take control of more areas—forcibly displacing their inhabitants and turning them into buffer zones. This aims to impose deep geographic and demographic changes, increasingly entrenched by systematic destruction of infrastructure, urban landmarks, and residential neighborhoods—all to implement declared plans to seize Gaza, render it uninhabitable, and forcibly displace its population outside Palestinian territory.

ICSPR also condemns the escalating crimes and violations by the occupation forces in the West Bank and Jerusalem, which include desecration of religious sites, daily incursions by settlers into Al-Aqsa Mosque, holding of Talmudic prayers, and prevention of Christian and Muslim worshippers from accessing their holy places—all aimed at the Judaization of Jerusalem. Additionally, the occupation continues to implement a policy of extrajudicial killings, assassinations, and storming of cities and camps, which has led, since October 7 until now, to the martyrdom of around 1,000 Palestinians and injury of more than 7,600 others. Thousands of properties and infrastructure have been destroyed, particularly in Nur Shams Camp, Tulkarem, Jenin, and Balata, not to mention the rising number of settler attacks against citizens—more than 2,000 assaults, and over 1,300 attacks on property and agricultural lands, all under the protection of the occupation army. Meanwhile, Israel continues to expand colonial settlement projects, seizing hundreds of thousands of dunums, legalizing dozens of settlement outposts, and isolating Palestinian areas to prevent geographic continuity through more than 1,000 gates and checkpoints—confirming its commitment to annexation plans in the West Bank.

ICSPR warns of the consequences of the international community’s shameful silence and inaction in the face of genocide and collective punishment, which enables the occupation to continue its war and aggression to preserve the survival of war criminal Netanyahu and the ruling fascist right-wing coalition, and to achieve their declared goals of liquidating the Palestinian cause, displacing the population of Gaza, annexing the West Bank, and Judaizing Jerusalem—while diverting attention from internal Israeli crises, as successive Israeli governments have consistently done at the expense of Palestinian blood and with American partnership and support.

ICSPR calls on the international community, the United Nations, international and regional organizations, third-party states, and the free people of the world to take urgent action to stop the genocide, ensure the flow of humanitarian aid to the people of Gaza before it is too late, and exercise all forms of solidarity with the victims. It urges political, diplomatic, legal, and popular action—individually and/or collectively—at once, to impose sanctions on Israel, accelerate efforts to hold its leaders, soldiers, and partners accountable in international courts, and stop the export of weapons and ammunition to the occupation. These measures would promote the application of international humanitarian law, protect Palestinian lives, provide international protection, reduce suffering caused by starvation, and ensure the opening of humanitarian corridors to enable the evacuation of the wounded and the entry of medical supplies, fuel, and humanitarian aid.

End
The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR)