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.
The jury affirms that Israel is perpetrating an ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza, within and enabled by a broader settler colonial apartheid regime rooted in the supremacist ideology of Zionism. This campaign is inseparable from an over a centurylong project targeting Palestinians across all of Palestine and in exile.
The root causes of genocide lie in a racist supremacist ideology, Zionism, that underpins a system aiming to dispossess, dominate, and erase Palestinians, supported by an oppressive neocolonial power structure led by the United States and its allies, shielded by international complicity, including from many Arab and Muslim governments.
The jury considers the genocide in Gaza to have several exceptional characteristics:
1. It is perpetuated on a captive population in a tiny closed territory where Israel controls all entries and exits.
2. It is systematic and carried out with the most advanced technology.
3. Despite Israel’s attempts to prevent reporting, it is highly visible in real time.
