Gaza, 1 September 2025 – Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza continues unchecked as the international community fails to act. Alongside dozens of daily killings by the Israeli military and man-made famine, the lives of two million Palestinians are being placed at additional risk of epidemics and infectious diseases.
The Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), and the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) urgently warn of the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian and health conditions in the Gaza Strip. The famine has now entered a new and critical stage, posing an imminent threat of mass death, unless the international community intervenes without delay.
Gaza, 12 May 2025 – Al Mezan has published a new fact sheet exposing the catastrophic and deliberate starvation of Gaza’s population, with a specific focus on children, pregnant women, and nursing mothers. The fact sheet, titled “The Effects of Israel’s Genocidal Siege and Starvation on Gaza’s Children, Pregnant Women, and Nursing Mothers,” documents the calculated use of hunger as a weapon of war and underscores the genocidal nature of Israel’s policies since the full siege imposed on 2 March 2025.
The growing impact of malnutrition among children and students in Gaza—driven by the Israeli-imposed blockade and its deliberate policy of starvation and denial of humanitarian aid—has become a key factor undermining academic performance. The deteriorating humanitarian conditions and widespread food insecurity have led to a sharp rise in malnutrition rates, impairing students’ physical and cognitive development and significantly diminishing their ability to concentrate and engage in learning.
The Beer Sheva District Court reviewed and extended Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya’s detention for another 6 months. This ruling underscores the role of Israeli civilian courts in sustaining the illegal occupation of the OPT and reinforcing Israel’s apartheid regime against the Palestinian people.
Al Mezan unequivocally condemns Israel’s ongoing crimes, perpetrated in furtherance of the continuing genocide in Gaza, particularly in Rafah. We call on the international community to take urgent and concrete measures to end the genocide, stop the systematic destruction of Rafah, and ensure the safe return of displaced residents. Immediate steps must be taken to hold those responsible accountable, including full support for the International Criminal Court and other accountability mechanisms, the imposition of a two-way arms embargo on Israel, and targeted sanctions against individuals and entities complicit in these crimes. The international community must also review and suspend bilateral agreements and diplomatic ties that enable Israel’s violations, work toward dismantling the unlawful occupation, and uphold the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination.
Around 3 p.m. today, Al Mezan’s lawyer visited Dr. Abu Safiya in Ofer Prison, located in the unlawfully occupied West Bank. During the visit, Dr. Abu Safiya detailed the various forms of torture and abuse to which he has been subjected both during his unlawful arrest and throughout his arbitrary detention by Israeli forces and authorities.
Israel’s ongoing genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza has triggered and escalated an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, deliberately inflicting life-threatening conditions on more than two million Palestinians, with particularly severe and far-reaching consequences on Palestinian women. Nothing, nowhere, and no one has been spared from Israel’s relentless genocidal military campaign unleashed on Gaza and its people.
Israeli forces have escalated deliberate attacks on medical personnel and health facilities in Gaza, with the latest wave of attacks concentrated on Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, North Gaza. Al Mezan strongly condemns Israel’s deliberate targeting and destruction of medical facilities and personnel.
Gaza, Haifa, 16 July 2024 — Today marks exactly 10 years since the killing of four Palestinian children from the Bakr family – Ahed (9 years), Zakaria (10 years), Mohammed (11 years), and Ismail (9 years) – by the Israeli military in Gaza. In marking this somber anniversary, Al Mezan, Adalah, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) highlight the systematic failure of the Israeli legal system to hold perpetrators accountable for acts of violence against Palestinians. This failure persists amid Israel’s genocidal military campaign against more than two million Palestinians in Gaza over the last nine months.
