Press Releases
15 November 2023
Date: 14 November 2023
The Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC) has released a briefing note, establishing that senior Israeli government and military leaders, amongst others, have incited genocide and may be carrying out genocidal acts against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. It provides a background to the current aggression against Gaza and the relentless, indiscriminate attacks on the Palestinian civilian population therein. It further provides a non-exhaustive illustrative list of the inciting genocidal statements by Israeli officials. There have been significant warnings by United Nations (UN) independent human rights experts, as well as actions taken by Third States, including the removal of their diplomatic missions from Israel, some in response to the ongoing Israeli genocidal statements and acts. Together, these warnings and State actions put the international community of States on notice, that there is a very real risk that genocide is being, or may be committed against Palestinians in Gaza. Given the gravity of the crime of genocide, the most heinous crime in the international legal order, States are therefore under an international responsibility to ensure the “prevention of such crimes, including their incitement, through appropriate and necessary means”. Our organisations call on Third States and the international community to immediately engage its responsibility to protect the Palestinian people, including by taking concrete measures, legal actions and mechanisms under the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (hereafter ‘Genocide Convention’) to hold Israel to account, to prevent genocide and put an immediate end to the ongoing atrocities.
In light of Israel’s of genocidal statements and acts against Palestinians in Gaza, our organisations call on:
Please find the full briefing note here: