NGO Action News – 10 July 2025

Middle East

• On 9 July, B’Tselem published the article “Israel denying treatment to thousands of Gazans who lost limbs in Israeli attacks, almost 1,000 of them children”. The NGO stated that Israel attacks injured more than 100,000 people in Gaza between November 2023 and May 2025, the vast majority of them civilians. In addition, the article read that Israel was carrying out a direct and systematic assault on the entire healthcare infrastructure in the Gaza Strip, disregarding the special protections afforded under international law to hospitals, medical teams, the wounded, and the sick, while preventing the vast majority of patients and wounded individuals from leaving to receive medical care in the West Bank or third countries.
• On 9 July, Gisha published an article in response to the announcement by Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz, of a plan for the forced transfer of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians in a “humanitarian city” in which they are to be trapped and concentrated in Gaza, under Israeli military control. According to the NGO, the plan does not stem from military, security, or “humanitarian” objectives, but rather serves political-demographic interests.
• On 8 July, Al Shabaka published the political memo “The Hague Group: Mobilizing International Law for Palestine”. According to the article, several Global South states have come together to form the Hague Group, an initiative designed to challenge the impunity surrounding the Israeli regime through coordinated legal and diplomatic action, committed to advancing international law enforcement and upholding global obligations in defense of Palestinian rights. The NGO added that this policy memo examined how the Hague Group showcased the potential of coordinated state action to hold states accountable for violating international law, despite structural limitations in enforcement.
• On 8 July, BADIL published the position paper “Rights-Based Reconstruction: Decolonization and Reparations”. According to the NGO, the paper discussed the distinction between “reconstruction” and “reparations” and their indivisibility to address, what it considers to be, a genocide in the Gaza Strip and 77 years of ongoing Nakba. It also addressed the gaps and flaws within the existing proposed plans and described what would be a suitable reparative approach in the case of the Gaza Strip.
• On 7 July, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights published an article stating that the Israeli forces had continued to commit mass killings and exterminate entire families in the Gaza Strip, amid an extensive and systematic campaign of destruction targeting residential neighborhoods and civilian infrastructure. The NGO added that although nearly 2.3 million people are crammed into less than 15% of the Gaza Strip’s area, Israeli forces have intensified their attacks, targeting them in shelters, tents, and streets, leaving no safe space, as hundreds having been killed and injured in recent days.
• On 4 July, Al Mezan issued a press release warning that Gaza’s critical lifesaving services were on the verge of total collapse. The Israeli-imposed aid blockade, the ban on the entry of fuel, and relentless Israeli military attacks targeting homes, aid distribution points, shelters, and tents housing displaced people across the entire Gaza strip have decimated the foundations of life in Gaza, the statement reads.
• On 3 July, Al-Haq delivered an oral intervention at the UN Human Rights Council, under Item 7, the interactive dialogue with the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967. Al-Haq welcomed the report of the Special Rapporteur, released in June 2025, and stated that it focused on corporate and institutional complicity in the context of Israel’s oppression of Palestinians. The Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies published an article on this report as well.

Africa, Asia and Europe

• On 9 July, the Norwegian Refugee Council published the article “West Bank: Israeli state-backed settler violence drives mass displacement of Palestinian communities”. The NGO alerted on the recent uprooting of Palestinian families in the Jordan Valley, where sustained Israeli settler attacks and mounting restrictions on water and grazing access were making it nearly impossible for families to remain. The NGO added that these were not isolated incidents but parts of a broader strategy of coercion, marked by settler violence, the spread of illegal outposts, and state complicity that was rendering life unviable for Palestinians, and amounted to forcible transfer.
• On 3 July, Amnesty International published an article arguing that Israel had continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip, over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide. The NGO added that, in the month following Israel’s imposition of a militarized “‘aid” scheme run by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured either near militarized distribution sites or en route to humanitarian aid convoys.
• On 1 July, Diakonia published the article “Legal Issues Surrounding Aid Delivery to Gaza”, to provide a basic guide to some of the legal issues raised by the Israeli-imposed aid delivery scheme in Gaza. The document is based on the NGO’s recent report “A Legal Appraisal of Israel’s Purported Aid Delivery Scheme in Gaza”.

North America

• On 3 July, Jewish Voice for Peace published an article on the situation in Gaza, which the NGO considered to be “beyond dire”. At least 84,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza between October 2023 and January 2025, and the real toll is likely much higher, the article reads. The NGO added that since the Israeli military unilaterally broke the ceasefire agreement in March, it has taken control of more than 75% of Gaza, trapping more than 2 million people into a smaller and smaller part of the decimated territory. There, the Israeli government is enforcing a policy of total starvation, according to the NGO, barring even baby formula from entering, leading doctors in Gaza to warn that thousands of babies could die.

United Nations

• On 9 July, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP) and the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) co-organized the 2025 Conference on the Question of Jerusalem “Palestinian Oppression and Displacement in Jerusalem in the Shadow of the War: A microcosm of the situation throughout the Occupied Palestinian Territory”, in Dakar, Senegal. The event reflected on the challenges faced by the Palestinian people in occupied East Jerusalem in terms of displacement, dispossession and violence and provided the platform to assess the wider oppression across the OPT and for the unresolved legacy of the Nakba. The Chair of the UN Committee stated that members of the international community had a collective duty to protect the Palestinian people, uphold their rights, and ensure international law prevailed.
• On 8 July, the UN Palestinian Rights Committee published a quarterly newsletter on its activities conducted between April and June 2025, including the organization of conferences and events, public meetings, advocacy efforts and official statements.
• On 3 July, Secretary-General António Guterres stated, through his spokesperson, that he was appalled by the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Multiple attacks in recent days hitting sites hosting displaced people and people trying to access food have killed and injured scores of Palestinians, he added, as he strongly condemned the loss of civilian life, and called for a full, safe and sustained humanitarian access so aid can reach people who have been deprived of the basics of life for far too long.
• On 30 June, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Francesca Albanese, published the advance version of the report “From economy of occupation to economy of genocide”. The Special Rapporteur stated that, what she considers to be, Israel’s genocide against Palestinians was being sustained by a system of exploitative occupation and profit as this report to the Human Rights Council emphasized that corporate profiteering and monetary gain has enabled and legitimized Israel’s illegal presence and actions.