The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, B’Tselem:
July 2025 Report: Our Genocide
And Physicians for Human Rights, Israel:
July 2025 Position Paper: Destruction of Conditions of Life: A Health Analysis of the Gaza Genocide
"Israel's oldest daily, Haaretz," which was was sanctioned by the Israeli government on Nov. 24, 2024
July 28, 2025: For the First Time, Israeli Human Rights Groups Say Israel Is Committing Genocide in Gaza, Call for International Intervention
Genocidal intent throughout': According to the reports by B'Tselem and Physicans for Human Rights – Israel, the Israeli attack on Gaza caused 'massive, indiscriminate bombardment of population centers' and the 'starvation of more than two million people as a method of warfare' against the Palestinians.
...The report concludes that the combination of the reality in Gaza and statements by senior Israeli officials led them to "the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip … and committing genocide against Palestinians."
..."The evidence shows a deliberate and systematic dismantling of Gaza's health and life-sustaining systems through targeted attacks on hospitals, obstruction of medical aid and evacuations, and the killing and detention of healthcare personnel," PHRI's report says.
To date, numerous organizations and legal experts have concluded that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Among those reaching this determination are Amnesty International, the European Center for Human Rights, the International Federation for Human Rights and Doctors Without Borders.
Human Rights Watch has also said in a report that Israel is committing crimes of extermination that may amount to genocide.
Several Israeli legal scholars and genocide researchers have also arrived at this conclusion, including Holocaust and genocide experts Daniel Blatman, Omar Bartov, Shmuel Lederman, Amos Goldberg, Raz Segal, legal scholar Itamar Raz and historians Lee Mordechai and Adam Raz, among others.
[decades-long
inhuman occupation compressed]
to one-day attacks
reponding with the red glow
of missiles in Gaza's night sky
this endless loop:
October 7, October 7 ....
[and yet
the decades before
and the day after...] bloodshedding
each bombed-out house:
an album with no photos
but with people
living, wounded and dead
pressed between its pages
anything new
under Gaza's smeared sun?
smoky rubble
beyond smoky rubble, and yet
again smoky rubble
And Analysis, July 29: Famine by Design: How Israel Ignored Warnings Over Hunger and Starved Gaza
"I've worked on this issue for four decades, and since World War II there has been no case of famine as carefully planned and controlled as this one. Every stage was foreseeable," said global famine expert Alex de Waal.
a dull-eyed baby
with loose skin over bone ...
red glow of Gazan skies
Reprinted in Haikuniverse, July 26, 2025
We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.
-- Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
To conclude today's "Special Feature" post, I would like to share with you the latest entry of Against the Drowning Noise of Other Words, CCX:
written in response to The New Yorker, July 28, 2025: Israel’s Zones of Denial
Amid national euphoria over the bombing of Iran—and the largely ignored devastation in Gaza—a question lurks: What is the country becoming?
Tel Aviv's beach party
the faint boom, boom, boom
from Gaza
FYI: Tel Aviv ranks among world's top ten beach cities (and party cities) in new National Geographic poll
And here are relevant excerpts and remarks taken from The New Yorker, July 28, 2025: "Israel’s Zones of Denial:"
When we go to the beach, you can hear the booms from Gaza. When you eat a lollipop or an ice cream, you hear things being blown up... Not only is reality horrible, you also don’t know what the real story is.
Etgar Keret, Israeli writer and Tel Aviv liberal
What we are doing in Gaza now is a war of devastation: indiscriminate, limitless, cruel and criminal killing of civilians.
-- Ehud Olmert, former Israeli Prime Minister.
... the war in Gaza has produced a people “who have lost everything and feel only humiliation and abandonment—and despise hypocritical Western moralism. This will feed future militants, and how they behave will be shaped by old grievances and new technologies—which Israel masters today, but they could master, too.” In the familiar pattern, today’s resolution is tomorrow’s tinderbox.
-- Malley Agha, who was once a peace negotiator for the Palestine Liberation Organization.
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