Tag: Children are Direct Victims of Genocide in the Gaza Strip

The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) has released a report today, titled “Generation Wiped Out: Gaza’s Children in the Crosshairs of Genocide”, highlighting the systematic and deliberate crime of genocide committed by Israel against children in the Gaza Strip. The report sheds light on acts such as killing, serious physical and mental harm, and subjecting children to living conditions intended to destroy them in whole and in part. It also emphasizes the absence of international accountability and the same time the role of Western support and international inaction in perpetuating these crimes.

… PCHR also calls for activating international legal mechanisms with utmost seriousness to ensure justice. The ongoing and shameful inaction of the international community for over a year in pressuring Israel to halt its crimes in the Gaza Strip, from postponing calls for a ceasefire to the continued supply of weapons, is a stain on the world’s conscience and contributes to the escalation of these violations.

… PCHR also calls on states to impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel, including the suspension of all agreements related to arms trade and preventing the transfer of dual-use items that may be used in committing the crime of genocide against the Palestinian population. PCHR stresses that the failure of any state to take these measures renders it complicit in this crime, necessitating its accountability and punishment in accordance with Article III of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide.

… PCHR demands the continuation of investigations with all perpetrators of international crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), including filing additional charges against Israeli leaders involved in committing these crimes, foremost among them the crime of genocide. Finally, PCHR calls on the international community to respect the advisory opinion of the ICJ regarding Israel’s unlawful presence in the OPT, and to take serious action to end its occupation through effective legal and political measures at the level of the United Nations and its member states.