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“Israel Genocide?” statement in response to the United Nations Human Rights​ “Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict” and call to action

PLEASE TAKE ACTION RIGHT NOW AND SEND YOUR LETTER TO THE UN OFFICE OF THE SPECIAL ADVISER ON THE PREVENTION OF GENOCIDE AND THE INTERNATIONAL CRIMINAL COURT PROSECUTOR.

The United Nations Human Rights “Report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict” has been released and the word genocide appears only once, to define what an International Crime is.

Even though the numbers speak for themselves, the treatment of the occupying army and the population it besieges as some kind of equals, with equal responsibility and military ability, in this report is glaring. We feel that the report, while detailing Israel’s individual war crimes, both in the Gaza Strip and in the West Bank, during Israel’s attack last summer, intentionally glosses over the context of 68 years of colonization and its subsequent on-going genocidal effects.

A crime of this magnitude- which lasted 51 consecutive days and resulted in the extermination of 89 whole families and the deaths of scores of others, and in devastating damage to civilian property and infrastructure in the context of Israel’s ever-tightening de-facto stranglehold on Palestinian land and lives and infinitely superior fire-power- cannot be assessed under the laws of war, but under the laws of genocide. We appeal to the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, Adama Dieng, and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda to investigate the possibility that Israel is committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people.

We also call on each and every one of you, who agree with our appeal, to send this email below to the relevant offices. Seeing this report, we cannot stress enough the importance of such civil society action. Please help us preasure the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the ICC Prosecutor. Together we will end Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.

UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, International Criminal Court Prosecutor, International Court of Justice President: Investigate the Possibility that Israel is Committing the Crime of Genocide Against the Indigenous Palestinian People

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Letter of Support from the BDS National Committee (BNC) for the Israel Genocide? Campaign

Dear friends, organizers of the Israel Genocide? Campaign,

The Palestinian BDS National Committee (BNC) welcomes and supports your initiative to encourage people worldwide to write to the UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide, and demand that the UN conduct an enquiry into the possibility that Israel may have committed the crime of genocide against the Palestinian people and publish its findings and recommendations.

In light of earlier and alarming findings of independent experts, in particular since Israel’s hermetic siege and separation of the occupied Gaza Strip in 2007 and the consecutive waves of mass killings of Palestinian civilians in Gaza, the BNC considers this initiative, which is directed specifically at the responsible UN personnel, to be important and timely. All, including the former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the OPT, Prof. Richard Falk, separate Arab League- and UN-led investigations into Israel’s 2008/9 war on Gaza, and the 2014 Russell Tribunal on Palestine special session on Israeli violations of international law in Gaza and elsewhere in the OPT, have all confirmed that Israeli war crimes and crimes against humanity have been perpetrated with impunity and, furthermore, that direct and public incitement to genocide by Israeli political, religious and parliamentary leaders have been well documented. Therefore, the UN Office of the Special Advisor on the Prevention of Genocide should be pressured to investigate if Israeli officials are responsible for the crime of genocide, including the crime of incitement to genocide, and to assess and prevent the risk of a future Israeli genocide against (parts of) the Palestinian people.

While supporting the Israel Genocide? Campaign, and irrespective of its results, the BNC calls on campaigners to continue to build public awareness and pressure for holding Israel accountable for its regime of colonialism, apartheid and occupation, including the war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in this context against Palestinians since 1948, such as ethnic cleansing and mass killing of civilians.  Both, facts and international law strongly support this approach. Like the crime of genocide, colonialism and the crime of apartheid are internationally prohibited. They also result in similar legal responsibilities: all states and international organizations, such as the United Nations, are to isolate and suppress Israeli apartheid and colonialism, bring responsible individuals to justice, and ensure full reparation for the Palestinian victims.

In solidarity,
Mahmoud Nawajaa
BNC General Coordinator

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UN Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor: Investigate the Possibility that Israel is Committing the Crime of Genocide Against the Palestinian People

Click to take action right now and demand the U.N. Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor investigate Israel for the possibility of the Crime of Genocide

The Crime of Genocide is defined in a declaration made by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its resolution 96 (I) dated 11 December 1946:

The Contracting Parties confirm that genocide, whether committed in time of peace or in time of war, is a crime under international law which they undertake to prevent and to punish.

Article 2

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

(a) Killing members of the group;
(b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
(c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
(d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
(e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

Article 3

The following acts shall be punishable:

(a) Genocide;
(b) Conspiracy to commit genocide;
(c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide;
(d) Attempt to commit genocide;
(e) Complicity in genocide.

Article 4

Persons committing genocide or any of the other acts enumerated in Article 3 shall be punished, whether they are constitutionally responsible rulers, public officials or private individuals.

We are people from all around the world who fear that we are witnessing the genocide of the Palestinian people by the State of Israel. Witnessing Israel’s daily violations of Palestinian human rights- military take-over of land, restriction of movement, economic strangulation, house demolitions, restrictions on basic foodstuff, mass arbitrary arrests of both adults and children, torture, extra judicial executions, and large-scale massacres of whole families, openly calling for genocide and extermination by law makers and other public figures- we can not keep silent about this 67 year-old atrocity, unfolding before our eyes.

We demand the United Nations Office of the Special Adviser on the Prevention of Genocide and the International Criminal Court Prosecutor take action and investigate the possibility that Israel is committing the Crime of Genocide against the Palestinian People, and that the office publish its findings and recommendations.

Please see our call to action and act now.

 
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The Final Fatal Blow to International Criminal Justice: The United States Sanctions the International Criminal Court by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights

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  • UN Security Council Resolution 2803, which, in a reaction to US coercion, unlawfully endorsed the so-called Board of Peace, rather than advancing justice or the protection of a population living under an unlawful occupation administered by a genocidal, settler-colonial apartheid regime, has served to consolidate Israel’s exceptionalism within the international system. It has reinforced a framework in which Israel is effectively insulated from legal consequence, even as corroborated, direct evidence of systemic and widespread violations of international law continues to mount.
  • The subsequent imposition of sanctions against the ICC must be understood as part of a coordinated architecture of impunity – one that rewards Israel politically while punishing any institution or actor that dares to challenge its conduct through lawful means.
  • By targeting the ICC as an institution – in addition to specific officials – the US signals its intent not merely to obstruct particular investigations, but to cripple the Court’s ability to function.

Continue reading at https://pchrgaza.org/the-final-fatal-blow-to-international-criminal-justice-the-united-states-sanctions-the-international-criminal-court/

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Three Years Into A Genocide, And Still Counting 1097 days of extermination, destruction, starvation of Palestinians by Haidar Eid

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  • October 7th 2026 marked the third anniversary of the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation, launched by Palestinian resistance factions in the Gaza Strip against Israeli military sites and settlements in the so-called “Gaza Envelope”. LearnArabic For the Palestinians, this records three years – 1,097 days – of a war of total extermination and various forms of wholesale destruction, starvation, displacement, and blockade.

Continue reading at https://www.thecitizen.in/opinion/three-years-into-a-genocide-and-still-counting-1373552

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Three Years into the Gaza Genocide: Inaction is Complicity by Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and others

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  • The undersigned human rights organisations condemn Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and the persistent failure of the international community to hold perpetrators accountable.  
  • For three years, mass killing, starvation and the systematic destruction of Palestinian life have unfolded in plain sight, with no meaningful consequences for those responsible. While international accountability mechanisms and a number of states have taken steps to uphold international law and pursue accountability, these efforts have been undermined by the inaction, obstruction and complicity of others, notably those states that have continued to supply arms, provide political cover or shield Israel from consequences. The result is a near-total lack of accountability. Israel’s genocide in Gaza is the most extreme expression of a system built over decades which rests on an unlawful occupation, apartheid, the denial of the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination, illegal settlement expansion and a regime of systemic discrimination. 

Continue reading at https://pchrgaza.org/three-years-into-the-gaza-genocide-inaction-is-complicity/

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Queuing for water and phone charging: What survival looks like in Gaza by Maha Hussaini

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  • “The water I’m collecting now is only for washing and bathing, and it is extremely salty. For drinking water, we have to wait for the water truck to arrive every other day. We wake up at dawn to take our place in the long queue.”
  • Before the genocide, Skafi, originally a resident of Shujaiya, worked as a construction worker. Today, he waits his turn to receive food parcels from charities and relief organisations to feed his family.
  • By midday, the question becomes what there is to eat.
  • “If we get food, then we have something to eat for lunch. But if we can’t get a hot meal, we have to figure out what we’re going to eat and how we’re going to get it. Then comes the struggle to find firewood and get a fire going just to cook. Every step is a struggle,” he continued.

Continue reading at https://www.thecitizen.in/opinion/three-years-into-a-genocide-and-still-counting-1373552

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Toilet seats, toys and hair clips: The strangest items Israel still barred from Gaza by Maha Hussaini

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  • A toilet seat is all that stands between Dima Awad and moving out of her makeshift tent before winter.
  • The 48-year-old Palestinian mother has rented a small garage in western Gaza City and has already moved most of her belongings there.
  • But she cannot move in until she finds a toilet seat, something that has become increasingly difficult to find in Gaza. 
  • The basic item is among a range of essential goods that Israel continues to prevent from entering the besieged enclave.
  • “I paid the rent around 10 days ago, and I’ve been looking for a proper toilet at an affordable price for about two weeks now,” said Awad, who now lives with her only son after being separated from her husband, who travelled for treatment during the genocide.

Continue reading at https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/toilet-seats-toys-and-hair-clips-strangest-items-israel-still-bars-gaza

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Over 800 Palestinian teachers killed by Israel since Gaza war: Education Ministry by Aysar Alais and Rania Abushamala

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  • Israel has killed more than 800 Palestinian teachers and injured over 3,300 others since the start of its war on the Gaza Strip in October 2023, the Palestinian Education Ministry said Sunday.
  • In a statement ahead of World Teachers’ Day, observed annually on Oct. 5, the ministry said educators across the occupied Palestinian territories are fighting “a real battle for survival” to protect the right to education amid systematic targeting. The education sector in Gaza and the West Bank has suffered “comprehensive genocide” since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza, the ministry said.
  • The ministry said more than 170 teachers remain detained “in harsh conditions.” It said movement restrictions and harassment at hundreds of checkpoints have compounded educators’ daily suffering, particularly in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, the village of al-Mughayyir in the central West Bank, the Jordan Valley and areas classified as Area C.

… The ministry said abuses against Palestinian teachers have been accompanied by severe financial hardship, undermining their material and psychological stability as Israel withholds Palestinian tax revenues.

Continue reading at https://aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/over-800-palestinian-teachers-killed-by-israel-since-gaza-war-education-ministry/4077723

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UK Greens celebrate adoption of ‘Zionism is racism’ policy by Anam Alam

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  • Backers of the UK Green Party‘s landmark ‘Zionism is racism’ motion celebrated the proposal’s passing into policy on Sunday, with supporters telling The New Arab that this is the start of a bigger movement.
  • The motion passed by an overwhelming 1,022 votes to 813, with all but three amendments being rejected during the annual Green Party conference held in Brighton.
  • The move means the party has adopted an official anti-Zionist stance, treating the ideology as a form of racism.
  • Members in favour of the motion walked out of the auditorium at the Brighton Centre jubilantly smiling and cheering.
  • “This is hope for the future of our people, for the future of all oppressed, and sets an example and a precedent that we, as a people, are unified, we oppose injustice, we oppose occupation, oppression, genocide, apartheid, and racism, and that includes Zionism,” Lubna Speitan, author of the motion, told The New Arab.

Continue reading at https://www.newarab.com/news/uk-greens-celebrate-landmark-zionism-racism-policy-adoption

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Harris campaigns with El-Sayed in Detroit: Gaza genocide buried in the name of Democratic “unity” by Adam Fahmy, Jacob Crosse

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  • El-Sayed won the Democratic primary in August with the support of young people and opponents of the Gaza genocide, on the basis of his stated opposition to US military aid to Israel. He was also unofficially backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), whose members were mobilized to campaign for him. This despite his avowed opposition to socialism.
  • El-Sayed’s decision to welcome Harris, a central figure in the Biden administration that armed, financed and diplomatically shielded Israel throughout the slaughter, exposes the political function of his campaign. Opposition to genocide is being subordinated to the election of another Democratic senator.

Continue reading at https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2026/09/29/aook-s29.html

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The Pardon of Elor Azaria: Killing, maiming, and culpability in the Israeli law by Tamir Sorek

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  • Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s recent decision to pardon a former Israeli soldier who summarily executed an incapacitated Palestinian a decade ago is more than a gesture toward one individual, and it is not an innocent attempt to “heal the divisions” between Israelis surrounding a case that convulsed Israeli society a decade ago. It is a political act that continues a long tradition of legitimizing the killing of Palestinians. The pardon does more than clear the remaining stain from the soldier’s record. It once again blurs the line between an unlawful killing and conduct that the state is prepared first to tolerate, then to justify, and ultimately to absolve and thereby implicitly condone. 

… Even when Jews were convicted of killing Arabs, the state knew how to respond with understanding. Israeli presidents Chaim Weizmann, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Yitzhak Navon, and Chaim Herzog (the current president’s father) granted pardons or reduced the sentences of Israeli soldiers and police who had killed Arabs. Each case was explained by reference to its supposedly exceptional circumstances: prevailing security tensions, the defendant’s personal history, his service to the state, the passage of time, or the need for reconciliation. Yet the accumulation of such cases reveals a pattern. The judicial process ostensibly draws a moral boundary, while the power of pardon retroactively strips the crossing of that boundary of its full significance. 

The pardons, reduced sentences, and failures to prosecute associated with the perpetrators of the 1956 Kafr Qasim massacre, members of the Jewish Underground in the 1980s, and the policemen who killed a dozen Palestinian citizens of Israel in October 2000 all belong to the same pattern—a pattern that prepared the ground for the genocide that has unfolded since October 2023.

Continue reading at https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-pardon-of-elor-azaria-killing-maiming-and-culpability-in-the-israeli-law/

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Azeez Al-Shaair removed eye black bearing name of slain Palestinian girl during Week 2 game: Source by Jonathan Jones

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  • Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair made international headlines after Week 1 when the NFL fined him for writing the name of a Palestinian girl killed in Gaza on his eyeblack in a game. He wore the name of a different slain Palestinian girl on his eye black last Sunday before removing it during the game.

Al-Shaair began the Texans’ Week 2 game against the Cincinnati Bengals with the name Wafaa Akila written on his eyeblack. After it was spotted by a league official, Al-Shaair was informed he would have to remove it or he would not be permitted to continue playing in the game, according to a league source who spoke on condition of anonymity because they are not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

While Al-Shaair was fined $11,941 in Week 1, the source told The Athletic he was not fined in Week 2.

According to Reuters, Wafaa Akila was an 8-year-old Palestinian girl killed earlier this month by an Israeli airstrike.

… Al-Shaair wore eye black with “stop the genocide” written on it during warmups before the Texans’ playoff game against the New England Patriots last January. 

Continue reading at https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7632192/2026/09/26/azeez-al-shaair-eye-black-nfl-wafaa-akila/