Human rights organizations warn of a potential genocide in Gaza as Israeli actions continue to devastate the region. The report highlights restrictions on humanitarian aid, attacks on healthcare facilities, and the displacement of civilians.
A new year is about to begin, but it seems there will be little change for the Palestinians of Gaza and they have every reason to be fearful of the months ahead. Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International both issued bleak statements in December saying that they consider that a probable genocide is under way in the Gaza Strip.
In November, the aid organisation Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) also spoke of genocide and it reported ethnic cleansing by Israeli forces in northern Gaza with civilians “being shot at and bombed as they flee”. It is widely accepted that humanitarian aid to the north of Gaza is being deliberately restricted by Israel, almost certainly with the intention of putting further pressure on civilians to abandon the area and head south. Kamal Aswan Hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals in the devastated north, according to its director Hussam Abu Safiya, has been repeatedly hit by Israeli drones, sniper fire and shelling from tanks, an egregious breach of international humanitarian law. There is nothing new in this, of course. As far back as July, the World Health Organisation had documented more than 1,000 attacks on healthcare facilities by Israeli forces in Gaza and the West Bank that directly killed hundreds of people, including many medical personnel. On October 10th, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel – mandated by the UN Human Rights Council – issued a searing report in Geneva in which it accused Israel of perpetuating “a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities”
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