What is Happening in Gaza is Genocide

Two Israeli human rights groups, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights, have for the first time labelled Israel’s Gaza offensive as genocide, citing deliberate policies of mass killing, bodily harm, and systemic destruction of living conditions.
Their reports highlight indiscriminate bombings, shoot-to-kill orders, and engineered famine affecting 2.2 million Palestinians, with Gaza’s death toll nearing 60,000 when including disease and starvation. B’Tselem warns Israel is exporting these genocidal tactics to the occupied West Bank through lethal “kill zones” and economic strangulation, dubbing it “Gazafication”.
Physicians for Human Rights details the calculated dismantling of Gaza’s healthcare system, calling it systematic and intentional. Both organizations accuse Israel of making Gaza uninhabitable while intensifying oppression in the West Bank through home demolitions and infrastructure targeting.
The reports, backed by witness testimony, urge global action to halt what they term an undeniable genocide.

Al Jazeera’s Nida Ibrahim reports.

Speaking at the opening of the UN conference in New York, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Israel and Palestine are at a “breaking point” with a two-state solution further away than ever before.
“We are here today with our eyes wide open, fully aware of the challenges before us,” Guterres said. “We know that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has endured for generations, defying hopes, defying diplomacy, defying countless resolutions and indeed defying international law.”
But “its persistence is not inevitable. It can be resolved,” he said, adding the realities of the war on Gaza make forging a two-state solution even more pressing.
“Nothing can justify the obliteration of Gaza that has unfolded before the eyes of the world,” Guterres said. “Precisely because of the grim realities, we must do even more to realize the two-state solution. … Today’s conference is a rare and indispensable opportunity.”