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Gaza: Evidence points to Israel’s continued use of starvation to inflict genocide against Palestinians  

Evidence gathered by Amnesty International demonstrates how over a month since the introduction of its militarized aid distribution system, Israel has continued to use starvation of civilians as a weapon of war against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and to deliberately impose conditions of life calculated to bring about their physical destruction as part of its ongoing genocide. 

AURDIP Letter to University Presidents in France on EU-Israel Cooperation

In a letter addressed to university leaderships, Ivar Ekeland, vice-president of AURDIP, calls on French institutions to join their Belgian counterparts in demanding the suspension of the cooperation agreement between the European Union and Israel. This agreement, which allows Israel to participate in research programs such as Horizon Europe, is supposed to be conditional on respect for human rights — a condition now blatantly violated in light of the situation in Gaza.

While the International Court of Justice has deemed it plausible that a genocide is underway, and humanitarian organizations denounce mass atrocities, Europe’s inaction is becoming morally untenable. French universities, long silent on the tragedy unfolding in Gaza, are now urged to take a stand. It is time for the academic community — so swiftly mobilized for Ukraine — to live up to the principles it claims to uphold.

Human Rights, Legal Organizations Warn Privatized “Humanitarian” Operators in Gaza of the Risk of Legal Liability for Complicity in Serious Violations of International Law

We, the undersigned human rights and legal organizations, are extremely concerned with the recent replacement of impartial United Nations (“UN”) agencies and well-established humanitarian organizations with the newly-created Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (“GHF”), which is working in collaboration with the Israel government and U.S. private military and security companies (“PMSC”) in the famine-struck occupied Gaza Strip. This new model of privatized, militarized aid distribution constitutes a radical and dangerous shift away from established international humanitarian relief operations,[1] and, as we have seen during the three weeks of GHF’s operations in Gaza, one that is dehumanizing, repeatedly deadly and contributes to the forced displacement of the very population it purports to help.