77 years ago today, the UN adopted the Genocide Convention – a treaty to ensure mass atrocities such as the Holocaust never happened again. Tragically, this has not been the reality. Nearly 2 months after the so-called ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, Palestinians are still enduring Israel’s genocide. Over 350 people have been killed by Israeli forces since October 29, with access to life-saving aid and medical supplies still restricted.

Amnesty UK

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77 years ago today, the UN adopted the Genocide Convention – a treaty to ensure mass atrocities such as the Holocaust never happened again. 

 

Tragically, this has not been the reality. 

 

Nearly 2 months after the so-called ‘ceasefire’ in Gaza, Palestinians are still enduring Israel’s genocide. 

 

Over 350 people have been killed by Israeli forces since October 29, with access to life-saving aid and medical supplies still restricted. 

 

And the UK is still failing in its obligation to help prevent and punish genocide. 

 

A ‘ceasefire’ does not mean the genocide is over.

 

https://x.com/AmnestyUK/status/1998387423646982154 

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UNRWA remains one of the largest providers of emergency learning and psychosocial support across Gaza #UNRWAworks

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Children in #Gaza continue to seek support amid immense challenges. 

 

Since the war began, UNRWA counsellors and social workers have delivered over 330,000 psychosocial support sessions. 

 

In more than 300 temporary learning spaces and on digital platforms, UNRWA supports children to get back a sense of routine. 

 

 #UNRWAworks

 

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"Humanitarian-aid flotilla stopped... but weapons keep flowing #peace #gaza #palestine" Yusuf / Cat Stevens

"Humanitarian-aid flotilla stopped... but weapons keep flowing #peace #gaza #palestine"  

Yusuf / Cat Stevens

@YusufCatStevens

Maha Hussaini

@MahaGaza

"While Israel intercepts and attacks the Global Sumoud Flotilla, its occupation army is carrying out massacres in Gaza and detonating multiple booby-trapped vehicles in Gaza City"

 

Assal Rad

@AssalRad

"“Saying those who stay will be considered militants” An absurd headline from  @AP  , repeating Israeli propaganda and normalizing threats against civilians." 

"Settler violence, carried out under the protection and encouragement of Israeli authorities, is an inseparable part of the Jewish supremacy regime, which perpetrates genocide in the Gaza Strip and forcibly displaces thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank."

https://x.com/btselem/status/1966063601292120437

Every day, settlers invade Palestinian lands to "demonstrate presence" and instill fear: through shouting, property vandalism, trespassing into homes and yards of families, riding ATVs through homes and sheep pens, filming, and creating provocations.

Sometimes these routine harassments escalate into severe violence and even killing. 

Settler violence, carried out under the protection and encouragement of Israeli authorities, is an inseparable part of the Jewish supremacy regime, which perpetrates genocide in the Gaza Strip and forcibly displaces thousands of Palestinians in the West Bank.

The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories

Stop the genocide. Now.

B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم

 

 

 

 B’Tselem – The Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories strives for a future in which human rights, liberty and equality are guaranteed to all people, Palestinian and Jewish alike, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. Such a future will only be possible when the Israeli occupation and apartheid regime end. That is the future we are working towards. B’Tselem (in Hebrew literally: in the image of), the name chosen for the organization by the late Member of Knesset Yossi Sarid, is an allusion to Genesis 1:27: “And God created humankind in His image. In the image of God did He create them.” The name expresses the universal and Jewish moral edict to respect and uphold the human rights of all people.   https://www.btselem.org/about_btselem

https://www.btselem.org/ 

Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end this regime, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.

Since the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, Israel has acted in a coordinated and deliberate manner to destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip, committing genocide against its residents. In light of Israel’s actions in Gaza, the public statements made by Israeli decision-makers, and the international community’s failure to take effective action, there is a serious risk that the Israeli regime will expand the genocide to other areas under its control—first and foremost, the West Bank.

B’Tselem calls on the Israeli public and the international community to use every tool available under international law to bring an immediate end to Israel’s genocide against the Palestinian people.

Ongoing: Palestinians in West Bank forcibly transferred under cover of Gaza war (41 communities as of 7 Sept. 25)  Updated list  https://www.btselem.org/settler_violence_updates_list?importance=1

New report: Our Genocide   https://www.btselem.org/

For nearly two years, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza, acting in a systematic, deliberate way to destroy Palestinian society there through mass killing, causing serious bodily and mental harm and creating catastrophic conditions that prevent its continued existence in Gaza. Israel is openly promoting ethnic cleansing and the destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure for individuals and the group, with 2 million people starved, displaced, bombed and left by the world to die. The genocide must be stopped.

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Only 1.5% of Gaza cropland left for starving Palestinians due to Israel’s war, UN says. Israel has continued to target farmland in once-abundant Gaza Strip ... Gaza was a thriving agricultural hub, where farmers and ordinary Palestinians cultivated a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains for local consumption.

An aerial photograph, taken on 28 July 2025, shows damaged buildings in Gaza. Photograph: Jehad Shelbak/Reuters

Nina Lakhani

Wed 6 Aug 2025 17.00 EDT

Israel’s destruction of Gaza has left starving Palestinians with access to only 1.5% of cropland that is accessible and suitable for cultivation, according to new figures from the UN.

This is down from 4% in April, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), suggesting Israel has continued to target Palestinian farmland since initiating a complete blockade in early March, severely restricting aid from entering the Gaza Strip, where 2 million starved people are trapped.

Before the conflict, Gaza was a thriving agricultural hub, where farmers and ordinary Palestinians cultivated a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains for local consumption.

According to the FAO, agriculture accounted for around 10% of the Gaza Strip’s economy, and more than 560,000 people, or a quarter of the population, were at least partially supported by agriculture and fishing.

Israel has targeted food sources – orchards, greenhouses, farmland and fishers – since the beginning of its siege on Gaza in October 2023.

By 28 July 2025, Israel had damaged 86%, the equivalent of almost 13,000 hectares (32,000 acres), of farmland in the Gaza Strip – up from 81% in April, the FAO said. While just under 9% of cropland is still physically accessible, only 1.5% – the equivalent of 232 hectares – is both accessible and not damaged by the Israeli offensive.

“Gaza is now on the brink of a full-scale famine. People are starving not because food is unavailable, but because access is blocked, local agrifood systems have collapsed, and families can no longer sustain even the most basic livelihoods,” said FAO director-general Qu Dongyu. “We urgently need safe and sustained humanitarian access and immediate support to restore local food production and livelihoods – this is the only way to prevent further loss of life. The right to food is a basic human right.”

In northern Gaza, Israeli tanks and bombs have destroyed or damaged 94% of what was among the most fertile, productive land in the territory, and Palestinians have no access to the remaining 6% of their cropland. In Rafah, near the Egypt border, 79% is flattened and the rest has been blocked as part of Israel’s so-called military corridor.

Last week, Israeli forces partially demolished a seed bank in Hebron, in the West Bank, destroying tools and equipments used to used to reproduce heirloom seeds.

UN experts, agencies and aid groups have been warning since early 2024 that Israel is orchestrating a campaign of deliberate mass starvation in Gaza by systematically destroying local food production and blocking aid, in violation of international law. Hundreds of Palestinians have now starved to death, and thousands more have been killed trying to access food aid... READ MORE  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/06/israel-gaza-war-palestinian-cropland-starvation

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Children in Gaza have been killed while sleeping, sheltering in schools, or queuing for water... “Israel has killed a classroom full of children every single day.” UNRWA Sam Rose tells BBC Radio 4.

Graphic by @‌TRTWorld

UNRWA

@UNRWA

“Israel has killed a classroom full of children every single day.” UNRWA Sam Rose tells BBC Radio 4. 

 

Children in #Gaza have been killed while sleeping, sheltering in schools, or queuing for water.

“The situation in Gaza is apocalyptic.” ... “Palestinians continue to endure suffering beyond imagination.” ... “Israel is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history.” —Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

“The situation in Gaza is apocalyptic.” “Palestinians continue to endure suffering beyond imagination.” “Israel is responsible for one of the cruelest genocides in modern history.” —Francesca Albanese, UN Special Rapporteur

 

Three more Palestinian children have frozen to death due to the "severe cold" as Israel continues to bar the entry of temporary homes into Gaza, says Saeed Salah, director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society.

Al Jazeera English

@AJEnglish

Three more Palestinian children have frozen to death due to the "severe cold" as Israel continues to bar the entry of temporary homes into Gaza, says Saeed Salah, director of the Patient’s Friends Benevolent Society.

 

"Currently, I am in the city of Khan Younis surrounded by destruction as families live in the remains of destroyed residential buildings. And children live inside these buildings without any type of essential humanitarian facilities, including electricity, water and sanitation.

That is why mobile homes and shelters are highly required by the Palestinian faction in Gaza as part of the ceasefire agreement.

But Israel, until now, has not allowed a sufficient number of mobile shelters and tents to enter the Gaza Strip.

Families have been using makeshift tents for more than one and a half years, and now they live in open spaces. In particular, children and the elderly have been left vulnerable to facing the cold weather in Gaza."

Tareq Abu Azzoum

Reporting from Khan Younis, Gaza

Updates: Israel keeps up West Bank raids; 3 Gaza children freeze to death

 https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2025/2/25/live-israel-demolishes-vast-areas-of-west-banks-jenin-sets-up-army-base

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Feast of the Holy Innocents: Christian children in Bethlehem lay olivewood hearts, each representing a child killed in the Holy Land since October 7

Christian children in Bethlehem lay olivewood hearts, each representing a child killed in the Holy Land since October 7 2023-Dec 29 2024

 

Christian children in Bethlehem lay olivewood hearts, each representing a child killed in the Holy Land since October 7 2023- Dec 29 2024