{"id":309936,"date":"2025-08-07T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/?post_type=document&p=309936"},"modified":"2025-08-12T10:18:42","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T14:18:42","slug":"gaza-never-again-giving-way-to-endless-decimation-of-displaced-palestinians-warn-un-experts","status":"publish","type":"document","link":"https:\/\/www.un.org\/unispal\/document\/gaza-never-again-giving-way-to-endless-decimation-of-displaced-palestinians-warn-un-experts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gaza: \u201cNever again\u201d giving way to endless decimation of displaced Palestinians, warn UN experts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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07 August 2025<\/p>\n

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A group of UN experts* today decried Israel\u2019s escalation of its genocidal campaign against the Palestinian people in Gaza, while calling on the international community to end its complicity in the face of Israeli atrocities as ceasefire talks continue without progress.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisplacement orders from the Israeli authorities have targeted the last vestiges of the international humanitarian response in Gaza, as have direct attacks like the recent deadly airstrike on the Palestine Red Crescent Society,\u201d the experts said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis comes as the people of Gaza \u2013 above all, children \u2013 are dying\u00a0en masse<\/em>\u00a0of starvation coupled with a lack of access to food, water, healthcare and shelter,\u201d they said. \u201cSo-called \u2018humanitarian pauses\u2019 and airdrops are insufficient to address a crisis of this scale. Unrestricted and uninterrupted humanitarian assistance must be allowed into Gaza.\u201d<\/p>\n

The experts stressed that Israel\u2019s illegal restrictions on humanitarian aid have inflicted conditions of life on the people of Gaza that are currently bringing about their physical destruction. They recalled this constitutes an act punishable under international law as genocide, as does the mass killing and maiming of Palestinians in Gaza.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael is exterminating the people of Gaza by any and all means,\u201d the experts said. \u201cOver a thousand Palestinians have been slaughtered by Israeli forces as they line up for humanitarian assistance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Seventy per cent of these\u00a0killings have taken place at sites established by the so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation<\/a><\/em>, backed by the United States and Israel. These deaths add to the more than 59,000 Palestinians killed and 140,000 injured during Israel\u2019s indiscriminate assault on Gaza.<\/p>\n

The experts warned that displacement orders have confined Gaza\u2019s entire surviving population to a mere 12 per cent of the Strip\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsraeli proposals to further forcibly transfer Gaza\u2019s population to a so-called \u2018humanitarian city\u2019 on the border with Egypt can only be seen as an attempt to create a concentration camp with conditions so dire that Gazans will ultimately be forced from their homeland,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

The experts urged the international community to take long-overdue measures to protect Palestinians and hold Israel accountable.<\/p>\n

\u201cIsrael\u2019s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people is enabled by the complicity of States that continue to shield Israel from the political and diplomatic consequences of its actions \u2013 choosing instead to suppress the free speech of their own citizens who speak out against these horrendous crimes while continuing to provide Israel with arms, trade, and economic assistance,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n

\u201cFurthermore, the United Nations has yet to definitively refer to the situation in Gaza as a genocide, despite irrefutable evidence of Israel committing multiple prohibited acts under the Genocide Convention and public statements from Israel\u2019s leadership calling for the continued starvation of Gaza,\u201d the experts said.<\/p>\n

They also noted that the European Union has failed to adopt any measures to sanction Israel for breaching its human rights obligations under the EU-Israel Association Agreement.<\/p>\n

\u201cWithout urgent international action, the words \u2018never again\u2019 will refer not to the prevention of genocide, but to the existence of Palestinian life in Gaza,\u201d the experts said.<\/p>\n

To learn more about Special Procedures of the UN Human Rights Council and the Question of Palestine, click here to visit the dedicated webpage.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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*The experts:<\/strong><\/p>\n