In yet another act contributing to the systematic campaign of collective annihilation targeting Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, ten civilians were killed on Thursday morning following an Israeli air strike on a police post located in the middle of a bustling market in Jabalia, northern Gaza.
Medical sources at the Indonesian Hospital in northern Gaza confirmed the arrival of ten bodies, alongside multiple wounded, following a direct strike that targeted a police point in a densely populated market where civilians had gathered to secure food and daily essentials.
Eyewitnesses reported that the attack occurred without any prior warning, at the height of commercial activity in the market, indicating a deliberate intention to cause maximum civilian casualties.
This massacre follows a persistent pattern since 7 October 2023, in which Israeli attacks have systematically targeted public spaces such as markets, schools, shelters, camps, medical centres, and places of worship—undermining the fabric of Palestinian civil life and communal resilience.
With this latest strike, the number of Palestinians killed since early Thursday has risen to 26, including women and children, amid ongoing Israeli bombardment of various parts of the Strip, including tents sheltering displaced families.
Under the UN Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the systematic killing of members of a national group with the intent to destroy them, in whole or in part, constitutes genocide. The actions of the Israeli forces in Gaza clearly meet this threshold: repeated targeting of families, destruction of densely populated residential areas, deliberate dismantling of civilian infrastructure, and continued mass killings, accompanied by inciteful rhetoric from senior political and military leaders.
These crimes are being perpetrated with overt political and military backing from the United States, which has undermined any meaningful international accountability efforts. As the rules of war are cast aside and international conventions are violated, Israeli forces continue to bomb civilians in broad daylight, emboldened by a long-standing culture of impunity.
Each massacre, like the one in Jabalia today, reinforces the urgent need for immediate international intervention to end this aggression and hold those responsible accountable. The international community must not allow this ongoing crime against humanity to continue unchecked under the veil of silence.
