Emmanuel Ukudolo I Monday, Sept.01, 2025
GAZA, Palestine – The International Association of Genocide Scholars, IAGS, has passed a resolution to the effect that the Benjamin Netanyahu led Israeli government is systematically commiting widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide in the Gaza Strip.
In a 240 page report, 86 percent of the 500 member association backed the resolution that Israel has committed systemic genocide in Gaza.
The report found Israel guilty of four of the five acts prohibited under the 1948 Genocide Convention.
The IAGS resolution said there were evidence of “deliberate destruction of agricultural fields, food warehouses, and bakeries and other violence that prevents food production, in conjunction with denial and restriction of humanitarian aid, indicate the intentional infliction of unlivable conditions resulting in starvation of Palestinians in Gaza”.
The report noted that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu endorsed a plan by US President Donald Trump to forcibly expel all Palestinians from the Gaza Strip, with no right of return, “in what Navi Pillay, head of the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, has said amounts to ethnic cleansing”.
See summary below
IAGS Resolution on the Situation in Gaza
Recognising that, since the horrific Hamas-led attack of 7 October 2023, which itself constitutes international crimes, the government of Israel has engaged in systematic and widespread crimes against humanity, war crimes and genocide, including indiscriminate and deliberate attacks against the civilians and civilian infrastructure (hospitals, homes, commercial buildings, etc.) of Gaza, which, according to official UN estimates, at the date of this resolution, has killed more than 59,000 adults and children in Gaza;
Recognising that these crimes are estimated to have left many thousands of people buried under the rubble or otherwise inaccessible, and most probably dead;
Recognising that this bombing and other violence is estimated to have injured more than 143,000 people, with many maimed;
Recognising that the actions of the Israeli government against Palestinians have included torture, arbitrary detention, and sexual and reproductive violence; deliberate attacks on medical professionals, humanitarian aid workers and journalists; and the deliberate deprivation of food, water, medicine, and electricity essential to the survival of the population;
Recognising that Israel has forcibly displaced nearly all of the 2.3 million Palestinians in the
Gaza Strip multiple times, and demolished more than 90 percent of the housing infrastructure in
the territory;
Recognising that the consequences of these crimes have included destroying entire families and multiple generations of Palestinians;
Recognising that Israel has destroyed schools, universities, libraries, museums, and archives, all of them essential to the continued existence of Palestinian collective well-being and identity;
Recognising that Israel has killed or injured more than 50,000 children and that this destruction of a substantial part of a group constitutes genocide, as emphasized in a joint declaration of iintervention in the International Court of Justice case of The Gambia v Myanmar by six
countries—Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom— which states “that children form a substantial part of the groups protected by the Genocide Convention, and that the targeting of children provides an indication of the intention to destroy a group as such, at least in part.
Children are essential to the survival of any group as such, since the physical destruction of the group is assured where it is unable to regenerate itself.”
As at August 31, 2025, the Palestinian Ministry of Health in Gaza put the The toll of the “israeli” aggression at 63,459 martyrs and 160,256 injuries since October 7, 2023.
It added that 88 martyrs and 421 injuries have arrived at Gaza Strip hospitals in the past 24 hours.
A number of victims are still under the rubble and on the roads, as ambulance and civil defense crews are unable to reach them until now.
Among the martyrs of livelihood:
In the past 24 hours, hospitals received 30 martyrs and 166 injuries from attacks on aid seekers. This raises the total of livelihood martyrs who reached hospitals to 2,248 martyrs and more than 16,600 injuries.
In the past 24 hours, hospitals in the Gaza Strip have also recorded 7 new deaths due to famine and malnutrition, raising the total to 339 deaths, among them 124 children.
