• Israel’s targeting of the “Shaban family home, killing all six members, two parents and their children
• HRW and Amnesty International have said that Israeli strikes that killed a journalist and injured six others in southern Lebanon were likely a direct attack on civilians and must be investigated as a war crime.

• Severe psychological suffering inflicted on Palestinians who, every night, without electricity, fear for their life as bombings continue
• Torture of detained Palestinians
• IDF soldiers stripping Palestinian men and parading them in the streets of Gaza

• Combined effect of the partial blockade, the total block of Gaza and the war on the mental health of children: “children who survive wars do not emerge unscathed and can pay a high price psychologically, emotionally, or behaviourally”, including “symptoms of anxiety, depression and trauma”.
• These traumas can go as far as “lack of interest in everyday life” and “nightmares are frequently experienced”, as well as bed-wetting.
• In 2022, concerns were raised on the ability of children to cope with this situation and the rising number of suicidal thoughts.
• While these patterns have been noticed and documented after the May 2021 Israeli military offensive against the Gaza Strip but before the one that arose on 7 October, they are still relevant for the purpose of this material. Indeed, this attack is far more devastating than the precedent, as the Palestinian death toll continues to increase.

• “Israeli raids have destroyed thousands of housing units, and private and public properties”

• Palestinians detained are denied the rights of fair and regular trial

• Unlawful deportation or transfer or unlawful confinement
• Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have been forced to relocate due to Israel’s indiscriminate bombing

• Palestinians who are captured in both Gaza and the West Bank are essentially Israeli hostages

• Entire families targeted and under the rubble: “[t]he Abou Dan family was holed up at home, in the Bureij camp in the center of the enclave. Everyone kept checking their phones to make sure that no message had been sent from the Israeli army telling them to evacuate their home. “There was no warning shot, no text message, nothing. All of a sudden, a bomb fell, then two,” said Ahmed Abou Dan over the phone”.

• “Israeli warplanes carried out dozens of airstrikes, destroying two houses in Beit Lahiya owned by the Nsair and Al-Bes families. They also targeted residential areas in Jabaliya, Al-Tawam, Al-Amoudi, and Al-Karama neighborhoods
• Destruction of the Supreme Court of Gaza, Mosques, the central archive of the Gaza municipality with documents over 100 years old, media buildings

• Killing of UNRWA employees

• The Israeli army has launched “intense shelling by filed artillery and naval vessels in Gaza District, targeting residential neighborhoods”

• “The Israeli bombardment has rendered the Beit Hanoun hospital inoperative and damaged Al-Shifa hospital’s neonatal unit.”

• All the places where Hamas is deployed, hiding in and operating from we will turn them into rubble. I say to the residents of Gaza: Leave now because we will operate forcefully everywhere

• “Israel “directly targeted a Palestinian Red Crescent ambulance in northern Gaza” on Wednesday, killing paramedics Khalil Al-Sharif, Yasser Al-Masri and Ahmed Dahman”

• ​​Israel’s use of White Phosphorus on densely populated civilian areas

• Israel’s use of White Phosphorus on densely populated civilian areas

• Israel’s Siege on Gaza, restricting the flow of people and goods, including food, water, and medical supplies

• Indiscriminate bombings murdering innocent Palestinian civilians
• The death of five newborn Palestinian children left in Al-Nasr Hospital for Children in Gaza when medical staff were forcibly evacuated – may amount to a crime against humanity as per Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
• The Israeli military bombs a marked ambulance just outside of Gaza City’s al-Shifa hospital on November 3, 2023: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/11/07/gaza-israeli-ambulance-strike-apparently-unlawful

• “Extermination” includes the intentional infliction of conditions of life, inter alia the deprivation of access to food and medicine, calculated to bring about the destruction of part of a population;
• Israel’s siege on Gaza restricting food, water, medicine, electricity, and fuel

“Enslavement” means the exercise of any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership over a person and includes the exercise of such power in the course of trafficking in persons, in particular women and children;

“Deportation or forcible transfer of population” means forced displacement of the persons concerned by expulsion or other coercive acts from the area in which they are lawfully present, without grounds permitted under international law;

Israel’s evacuation order for 1.1 Million Palestinians to move from Northern Gaza to Southern Gaza

Israel’s arbitrary detention of Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank

“Torture” means the intentional infliction of severe pain or suffering, whether physical or mental, upon a person in the custody or under the control of the accused; except that torture shall not include pain or suffering arising only from, inherent in or incidental to, lawful sanctions;

The torture of those detained by Israeli forces

“Forced pregnancy” means the unlawful confinement of a woman forcibly made pregnant, with the intent of affecting the ethnic composition of any population or carrying out other grave violations of international law. This definition shall not in any way be interpreted as affecting national laws relating to pregnancy;

The rape of Israeli prisoners, both male and female, adults and children

“Persecution” means the intentional and severe deprivation of fundamental rights contrary to international law by reason of the identity of the group or collectivity;

Israeli persecution is based primarily on Anti-Muslim Racism as well as Anti-Palestinian racism

“Enforced disappearance of persons” means the arrest, detention or abduction of persons by, or with the authorization, support or acquiescence of, a State or a political organization, followed by a refusal to acknowledge that deprivation of freedom or to give information on the fate or whereabouts of those persons, with the intention of removing them from the protection of the law for a prolonged period of time.

Israel’s kidnapping of Palestinians in the West Bank

“The crime of apartheid” means inhumane acts of a character similar to those referred to in paragraph 1, committed in the context of an institutionalized regime of systematic oppression and domination by one racial group over any other racial group or groups and committed with the intention of maintaining that regime;

Countless UN human rights experts, international human rights organizations, Palestinian civil society, and Israeli human rights organizations have found that by imposing a system of oppression and domination against Palestinians, Israel is committing apartheid in contravention of international law

Palestinian captives in Gaza stripped and paraded on the street in Gaza

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