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Leading Israelis Charge Government with Genocide [1]

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Date: 2025-07-30

B’Tselem, an Israeli human rights organization, and the Israeli chapter of Physicians for Human Rights, charge that the Israeli government and military are committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. They are calling on western democracies including the United States to demand that Israel stop the war decimating Gaza. The two groups accuse Israel targeting Palestinian civilians in Gaza causing irreparable damage to Palestinian society, actions that meet terms established in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Speaking for B’Tselem, Yuli Novak, its director, declared “What we see is a clear, intentional attack on civilians in order to destroy a group.” Physicians for Human Rights (PHR) charged that the destruction of the health system in Gaza alone makes the war genocidal under article 2c of the convention. In addition, both organizations charged that Israeli’s allies shared responsibility for conditions in Gaza because they enabled the genocidal campaign.

This week, a United Nations affiliated watchdog group reported the "Latest data indicates that famine thresholds have been reached for food consumption in most of the Gaza Strip and for acute malnutrition in Gaza City." One in three people are forced to go without food for days. More than 20,000 children were admitted to hospitals with acute malnutrition between April and mid-July. Access to food is increasingly dangerous. Over 1,000 Palestinians have killed since the end of May by Israeli soldiers and private mercenaries at food distribution sites. Despite these findings, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu insists "there is no starvation in Gaza."

B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights were joined in their condemnation of Israel’s war on Gaza by leading Israeli public figures who signed a letter calling on the international community to impose “crippling sanctions” on Israel to force the Netanyahu government to stop the starvation of the Palestinian people. The signatories include Yuval Abraham, who won an Academy Award as co-director of the documentary “No Other Land” about Israeli military and settler attacks on Palestinians on the West Bank, a former Israeli attorney general, a former speaker of Israel’s parliament, and a number of recipients of the prestigious Israel prize. The letter accuses Israel of “starving the people of Gaza to death and contemplating the forced removal of millions of Palestinians from the strip.” Earlier in July, Ehud Olmert, a former Israel prime minister, accused the Netanyahu government of ethnic cleansing.

Israeli actions in Gaza have long led to massive international and domestic protest rallies. The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant last November accusing them of war crimes and crimes against humanity. While a large majority of United Nations member nations recognize a Palestinian State, few European countries do. However, in response to Israeli actions in Gaza and on the West Bank, French President Macron announced that France will recognize the existence of a Palestinian State incorporating the West Bank and Gaza at a United Nations meeting in September. The United Kingdom will also recognize Palestinian statehood unless Israel agrees to an immediate ceasefire and addresses suffering there.

Even some of United States’ most pro-Israel politicians are starting to finally take notice of the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Donald Trump, at a meeting with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and press conference at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland explained “Based on television . . . those children look very hungry” and “I mean some of those kids. That’s real starvation; I see it and you can’t fake that.” Even Republican Congressional Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from Georgia, a MAGA standard bearer, acknowledges “genocide” is underway in Gaza. Top Democratic Party leaders including Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries are condemning the humanitarian crisis in Gaza but to maintain support from pro-Israeli groups they have not labeled what is taking place there as “genocide.”

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