Category: Reports

‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza: Executive Summary

This is the executive summary of the report ‘You Feel Like You Are Subhuman’: Israel’s Genocide Against Palestinians in Gaza (Index: MDE 15/8668/2024).

The report documents Israel’s actions during its offensive on the occupied Gaza Strip from 7 October 2023. It examines the killing of civilians, damage to and destruction of civilian infrastructure, forcible displacement, the obstruction or denial of life-saving goods and humanitarian aid, and the restriction of power supplies. It analyses Israel’s intent through this pattern of conduct and statements by Israeli decision-makers. It concludes that Israel has committed genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.

New UN report: Impacts of war have set back development in Gaza by as much as 69 years

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.

Silencing Voices.. The Plight of Palestinian Journalists Detained by Israeli Occupation

“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.