A Cartography Of Genocide: Israel’s Conduct In Gaza Since October 2023
The Forensic Architecture Cartography of Genocide platform documents in unprecedented detail the extent and character of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
The Forensic Architecture Cartography of Genocide platform documents in unprecedented detail the extent and character of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip since October 2023.
Without lifting economic restrictions, enabling recovery, and investing in development, the Palestinian economy may not be able to restore pre-war levels and advance forward by relying on humanitarian aid alone.
The assessment suggests that a comprehensive recovery and reconstruction plan, combining humanitarian aid with strategic investments in recovery and reconstruction along with lifting economic restrictions and promoting recovery-enabling conditions, could help put the Palestinian economy on a restorative track to realign with Palestinian development plans by 2034. But this scenario can only play out if recovery efforts are unrestricted.
“The data released by the Palestinian Journalists’ Syndicate shows that the crimes of the occupation also included the arrest of 125 journalists in Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem. However, the terror goes beyond the number of those detained— the methods of physical torture and psychological terror they have endured are indescribable. Testimonies from released journalists and their lawyers, documented by the Syndicate, speak of unprecedented torture in history.
Israeli forces gather on a road during a raid at the al-Fara’a camp for Palestinian refugees north of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank on October 10, 2024. (Photo: Jaafar Ashtiyeh / AFP)
The authors examine Israel’s use of international humanitarian law (IHL) to justify actions in Gaza that amount to genocide. They contend that Israel’s settler-colonial agenda systematically strips Palestinians of their rights, transforming Gaza into a site of extreme violence, segregation, and mass annihilation.
Israeli soldiers and Palestinian former detainees say troops have regularly forced captured Gazans to carry out life-threatening tasks, including inside Hamas tunnels.
Israel has perpetrated a concerted policy to destroy Gaza’s healthcare system as part of a broader assault on Gaza, committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination with relentless and deliberate attacks on medical personnel and facilities, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel said in a new report today.
This report highlights the hostilities’ impacts on education in Gaza and the main challenges facing the education system. It will also highlight the secondary impacts of the prolonged lack of education on Gazan students.
Children ride a bicycle across a war-devastated street in Gaza City on October 2, 2024, amid the ongoing Israeli genocide. (Photo: Omar AL-QATTAA / AFP)
Researchers of the Law and Development Group have written the legal brief “Breaches of obligations arising from peremptory norms of general international law and consequences for institutional cooperation with universities in Israel”.