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<h1 class="gmail-reader-title">‘Acts of Genocide Committed’ In Months After ICJ Ruling - Euro-Med Monitor Report</h1>March 26, 2024</div>
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Israel is still committing acts of genocide after ICJ ruling, according to a report. (Image: Palestine Chronicle)
<p><strong>By <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/writers/palestine-chronicle-staff" title="Display all articles for Palestine Chronicle Staff">Palestine Chronicle Staff</a></strong> </p>
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<h3>“The majority of the provisional measures outlined in the (ICJ)
ruling were violated, and the crime of genocide was carried out on the
same scale.”</h3>
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<p>A new report by the Geneva-based Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has
found that over the two months that followed the International Court of
Justice (ICJ) ruling, Israel did not abide by the order and continued to
commit genocide against the Palestinian people in the besieged Gaza
Strip.</p>
<p>Titled ‘Two Months after the International Court of Justice’s Ruling
on Gaza: Escalation in Genocide and Absence of Accountability’, the <a href="https://euromedmonitor.org/en/article/6242/Report:-Israel-continues-to-violate-ICJ-ruling-on-Gaza">report</a>
“contains documentation of Israel’s ongoing acts of genocide against
the Palestinian people in the Strip,” a statement by Euro-Med Monitor
said on Monday.</p>
<p>The report “examines Israel’s lack of response” to the Court’s <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/what-does-the-icj-ruling-mean-for-gaza-intl-law-expert-answers/">ruling</a>
on January 26, which ordered Tel Aviv to take six provisional measures
to prevent the crime of genocide against the civilians in Gaza.</p>
<p>“Based on efforts to monitor and document the crimes and violations
that Israel has committed in the Gaza Strip, as well as on
investigations into and assessments of its level of compliance during
the two-month period following the ruling, Euro-Med Monitor believes
that Israel has not complied with the ICJ ruling,” the statement said.</p>
<p>It said “The majority of the provisional measures outlined in the
ruling were violated, and the crime of genocide was carried out on the
same scale. Various forms and acts of genocide were committed with the
intent of destroying the Palestinian people.”</p>
<p>The provisional measures which the Court <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/icjs-rulings-on-israel-are-binding-un-secretary-general/">ordered</a>
included for Israel to refrain from acts under the Genocide Convention,
preventing and punishing the direct and public incitement to genocide,
and taking immediate and effective measures to ensure the provision of
humanitarian assistance to civilians in Gaza.</p>
<h4>Flour Massacres</h4>
<p>Euro-Med Monitor said two months after the ruling, Israel “proceeds
to carry out its crime of genocide at the same scale, including killing
civilians, targeting civilians through systematic and widespread
military attacks, and using illegal, indiscriminate, and highly
destructive weapons.”</p>
<p>The report cites the targeting “of civilian gatherings around
humanitarian aid trucks with direct gunshots, quadcopters, and Israeli
tank shells” as one of the most well-documented examples of the unlawful
killings and executions carried out by the Israeli army against
Palestinian civilians over the past few weeks.</p>
<p>It said, “These incidents, which have become known as the ‘<a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/horrific-crimes-over-100-palestinians-killed-wounded-in-new-flour-massacrein-gaza/">Flour Massacres</a>’, resulted in the deaths of 563 citizens and the injury of 1,523 others.”</p>
<p>This figure includes civilians <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/new-flour-massacre-scores-of-palestinians-killed-while-waiting-humanitarian-aid-in-gaza/">awaiting aid</a> and workers in charge of planning, securing, and distributing aid, Euro-Med Monitor said.</p>
<h4>Sexual Violence</h4>
<p>The rights group also mentioned “the crimes” that it said Israel
continued to commit “with the aim of inflicting severe physical and
psychological harm” on Palestinians in Gaza, “particularly through
deprivation of healthcare, torture, inhumane treatment, <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/un-silent-on-sexual-violence-clams-israel-recalls-un-envoy/">sexual violence</a>, and the use of prohibited, indiscriminate, and highly destructive weapons.”</p>
<p>It also outlined “the ongoing crimes” committed by Israel aimed at
deliberately causing “material destruction” to civilians, such as “<a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/we-reject-forced-displacement-of-palestinians-egyptian-president/">forced displacement</a>, starvation, rendering the area uninhabitable, and eradicating the Palestinian identity of the region.”</p>
<p>This is achieved “through the systematic destruction of sources of
income, infrastructure, civilian objects, and private property, as well
as deliberate military attacks on buildings designated for religious,
educational, scientific, and historical purposes, hospitals, and places
where patients and wounded gather.”</p>
<p>“Israel has in fact committed more violations in some instances than
it did in the time leading up to the Court’s ruling, particularly in
relation to the entry of humanitarian relief aid and the threats and
persecution of Palestinians in the Rafah,” the rights body emphasized.</p>
<h4>Tactic of Starvation</h4>
<p>More than 1.2 million displaced from other parts of Gaza are
sheltering in Rafah, amidst Israel’s planned ground invasion of the
town, which has been <a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/icjs-rulings-on-israel-are-binding-un-secretary-general/">criticized</a> by various countries and world bodies, including the UN.</p>
<p>“The ICJ ruled on 16 February that any Israeli military action in
Rafah under the current circumstances would worsen the already tragic
situation and put the lives of Palestinian civilians in further
jeopardy”, Euro-Med Monitor said.</p>
<p>“As for Israel’s commitment to providing humanitarian aid”, the
report concluded that “Israel has used starvation not only as a tactic
of war, but also as a means of carrying out the crime of genocide
against the Palestinian People in the Strip, especially in the northern
Gaza Strip, continuously and severely for six months now.”</p>
<p>It said that as part of “its starvation campaign,” Israel commits
other serious crimes, “including imposing a strict siege on the entire
Strip, i.e. cutting off fuel, electricity, and water; demolishing local
food production sources by destroying crops and bulldozing agricultural
land; and repeatedly obstructing and even halting the entry or
distribution of humanitarian aid.”</p>
<p>At least 15 children have<a href="https://www.palestinechronicle.com/15-children-killed-by-starvation-in-gaza-as-israel-continues-to-block-aid/"> died</a> from dehydration and malnutrition at the Kamal Adwan hospital in north Gaza, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.</p>
<h4>World’s Responsibility</h4>
<p>The rights body urged the international community “to uphold its
legal and moral duties” to the civilians of Gaza, “to guarantee that the
International Court of Justice ruling is carried out, and to end the
genocide that the Court declared in January was likely taking place in
the Gaza Strip.”</p>
<p>It called on all states “to fulfill their international obligations
by halting all military, financial, and political support for Israel’s
attack against the Gaza Strip, and in particular, all arms transfers to
Israel.”</p>
<p>“Otherwise, these states will be held accountable for their
complicity in Israel’s ongoing crimes, including genocide,” the
statement added</p>
<h4>Over 32,300 Killed</h4>
<p>Currently on trial before the International Court of Justice for
genocide against Palestinians, Israel has been waging a devastating war
on Gaza since October 7.</p>
<p>According to Gaza’s Ministry of Health, 32,333 Palestinians have been
killed, and 74,694 wounded in Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza
starting on October 7.</p>
<p>Moreover, at least 7,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.</p>
<p>Palestinian and international organizations say that the majority of those killed and wounded are women and children.</p>
<p>The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement
of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the
vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern
city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become
Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.</p>
<p>Israel says that 1,200 soldiers and civilians were killed during the
Al-Aqsa Flood Operation on October 7. Israeli media published reports
suggesting that many Israelis were killed on that day by ‘friendly
fire.’</p>
<p><i>(The Palestine Chronicle)</i></p>
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