'Genocide': B’Tselem Concludes that Israel Is 'Deliberately Destroying Palestinian Society in Gaza'
GAZA STRIP, PALESTINE, JUL 29 – Israel-based human rights groups say Israeli actions in Gaza meet three core elements of genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention, highlighting systematic destruction of healthcare and survival conditions.
- July 30th, 2025, saw B’Tselem, Israeli human rights group, and Physicians for Human Rights- Israel affirm that Israel is committing genocide.
- Defining genocide shows it requires a political and ideological foundation to legitimize extermination, underscoring its fundamentally political nature.
- According to PHRI’s report, conditions of Gaza’s healthcare system meet at least three core elements of Article II of the 1948 Genocide Convention, showing systematic dismantling.
- However, legal recognition as genocide requires political enforcement like diplomatic pressure or military action, which is essential for prosecution under international law.
- Recently, Hungary and the United States have disregarded ICC arrest warrants for Israeli officials, despite charges against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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It Shouldn’t Have Taken This Much For Mainstream Voices To Start Speaking Up About Gaza
By Caitlin Johnstone, Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity | July 29, 2025 Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights. The Israeli organizations join Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, and the overwhelming majority of leading authorities on the subject of genocide in their conclusion. The debate is o…
It shouldn’t have taken this much for mainstream voices to start speaking up about Gaza
As western pundits, politicians and celebrities suddenly pivot to denouncing Israel’s genocidal atrocities after two years of silence, it’s hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were being told that saying “death to the IDF” is a hate crime.
'Genocide': B’Tselem concludes that Israel is 'deliberately destroying Palestinian society in Gaza'
Two prominent Israeli human rights organizations have concluded in a new report that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza—marking the first time Jewish-led groups within Israel have made such allegations during nearly 22 months of war. The findings by B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights–Israel intensify an already explosive debate over whether Israel’s military campaign in Gaza, launched in response to Hamas’ deadly October 7, 2023 attack,…
It is Genocide: Omer Bartov Interview
Newark, Del. (Special to Informed Comment; Feature) – Fariba Amini writes: Omer Bartov recently wrote an Op-ed piece in the New York Times in which he described the war on Gaza as a genocide. His piece garnered a great deal of praise but also criticism by scholars and journalists who reject the term “genocide” for what is happening in Gaza. Professor Bartov is the author of several important books regarding the Holocaust in Eastern Europe and …
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