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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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On Palestinian Participation in the Elections of the Genocidal Israeli Parliament by Haidar Eid

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  • I am fundamentally opposed to participating in the Israeli Knesset elections; our Palestinian people should neither run as candidates nor cast a vote. This “parliament” embodies, on one hand, the abhorrent racism of Zionist ideology, and on the other, serves as a fig leaf concealing the true nature of the genocidal settler-colonial regime in historic Palestine.

Continue reading at https://www.palestinechronicle.com/on-palestinian-participation-in-the-elections-of-the-genocidal-israeli-parliament/

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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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Game over: Inside the ruins of Gaza’s football stadiums by Rachel Lavin, Hannah McCarthy

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  • Most of the boys playing for Al Helal Football Club, who once travelled to Ireland are now displaced in tents across Gaza, with little access to play football, said Zoe Lawlor, chairperson of the Irish Palestinian Solidarity Campaign and co-ordinator of Gaza Action Ireland.
  • “Sport is so important as an outlet to any young people but especially to those living under siege and occupation and now surviving genocide,” said Lawlor, who had visited Al Helal Club in Gaza as part of an Irish sports outreach programme in 2013.
  • “Gaza was so beautiful even under siege. To see every aspect of civil society destroyed by Israel is horrendous,” she said. “It is a crime … what has been done.

Continue reading at https://archive.li/T38iv#selection-1557.0-1565.15

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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.middleeasteye.net/big-story/gaza-all-we-do-is-try-to-survive

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Marking Three Years Of Genocide In Gaza: Hug Machine by Eman Basher

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  • Now, there will always be someone sending me your poem, “Let It Be a Tale,” pushing the white kite into my sight, asking me to read it aloud—but I won’t. I can’t. That one line—“you must live”—sticks in my throat: too heavy, too unfair. What if I don’t want to tell your story? What if I want to let it rest, to let it fade quietly instead of becoming a tale told time and time again? You always found poetry in pain, but maybe that’s why I resisted it—I knew one day it would demand more from me than I could give. It would ask me to carry you, to keep you alive through every line, even when all I want is to let you rest.

Continue reading at https://mizna.org/mizna-online/hug-machine-gaza-folio/

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The Gaza genocide permanently diminished the power of pro-Israel propaganda by Michael Arria

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.

  • For nearly 40 years, Gallup has been asking Americans a series of questions about the Middle East and U.S. policy in the region.
  • One of those frequent questions is, “In the Middle East situation, are your sympathies more with the Israelis or more with the Palestinians?“
  • In 2003, just 16% of Democrats said that they sympathized more with Palestinians than Israelis. When the annual survey was carried out this past February, that number had ballooned to 65%.

Continue reading at https://mondoweiss.net/2026/10/the-gaza-genocide-permanently-diminished-the-power-of-pro-israel-propaganda/

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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