In a blatant challenge to US President Donald Trump’s call for an immediate ceasefire, the Israeli occupation forces, since dawn on Saturday, continued to carry out bloody massacres against civilians in the Gaza Strip, resulting in the killing of nine Palestinians, including two children, and injuring others to varying degrees.
Medical sources and eyewitnesses reported that occupation aircraft bombed a house in Gaza City and a tent sheltering displaced persons in the Al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis, killing two children and injuring eight others.
A drone also targeted two houses in the Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in the northeast of the city, killing six people and leaving several missing beneath the rubble.
In another attack on Al-Yarmouk Street in the city centre, one citizen was killed and others wounded amid heavy bombardment and a suffocating siege encircling Gaza’s neighbourhoods.
Despite Hebrew media reports of political directives to scale down military operations, the occupation continues to escalate its assaults, disregarding all international appeals, and exposing the systematic nature of these attacks.
Since 7 October 2023, the occupation has been conducting a campaign of genocide against Gaza’s population, leaving more than 66,000 dead and 169,000 wounded, the majority of them women and children. The ongoing blockade and deliberate starvation have also claimed hundreds of lives, including dozens of children.
According to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, targeting civilians with the intent to destroy a national or ethnic group constitutes genocide. Likewise, attacks on homes, shelters, and hospitals represent grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions, which guarantee the protection of civilians during wartime.
Furthermore, more than 11,000 Palestinian prisoners are held in Israeli jails, subjected to torture, medical neglect, and collective punishment amounting to an ongoing crime under international law.
The massacres committed by the occupation in Gaza are not isolated incidents but part of an organised policy amounting to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide. This places an urgent legal and moral responsibility on the international community to hold the perpetrators accountable and to provide protection for the Palestinian people.
