Was there genocide committed in Gaza?
Multiple independent human-rights organizations and a UN commission have concluded there is strong evidence that Israel’s conduct in Gaza meets the legal threshold of genocide or genocidal acts, citin...
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Multiple independent human-rights organizations and a UN commission have concluded there is strong evidence that Israel’s conduct in Gaza meets the legal threshold of genocide or genocidal acts, citin...
Independent bodies, major human-rights NGOs, and some states have concluded there are reasonable grounds that Israel’s actions in Gaza meet the legal thresholds for genocide, while Israel and many of ...
Comprehensive, year-by-year fatality tallies for Palestinians since 1948 are not provided in the available sources; modern, systematic counting in the public record begins in the sources around 2000–2...
Estimates of how many Palestinians have died "since the Jewish invasion of Palestine" vary by source, definition and time period; official Palestinian authorities count the dead from 1948 onward as ma...
Multiple major human-rights organizations and a UN commission have concluded that Israel’s conduct in Gaza meets elements of the Genocide Convention and have urged action; the UN Independent Internati...
The League of Nations Mandate for Palestine did recognize a “historical connection of the Jewish people with Palestine” and applied to lands on both sides of the Jordan River (Transjordan) . But Brita...
Multiple human-rights and UN reports, as well as media investigations and NGO accounts, document allegations by Palestinian detainees that Israeli forces used dogs and other methods in sexualised abus...
Multiple states, international bodies and major rights organizations have publicly concluded or stated that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza at different times. Key institutional findings include...
International bodies, specialist experts, and numerous NGOs have publicly characterised Israel’s conduct in Gaza as genocide or said there is a strong basis to reach that finding: a UN commission of i...
Israeli officials consistently reject accusations of ethnic cleansing and genocide in Gaza, framing such allegations as politically motivated attacks that ignore Israel’s right to self‑defence and the...
B’Tselem and base their conclusions of on cumulative patterns: large-scale civilian deaths and infrastructure destruction, testimony and statistics documenting deprivation and displacement, and public...
has long been a named geographic and administrative region — used by travelers, cartographers, imperial powers and local populations for centuries before the modern State of was declared in 1948 . Whe...
Open Society Foundations (OSF) has been criticized for funding groups in the Middle East that critics say advance anti‑Israel agendas, back political change, and even — in some reports — have links to...
A precise, single ratio of all Israeli civilians to soldiers killed by Hamas from 2000 through 2026 cannot be calculated from the provided sources because authoritative datasets either stop at earlier...
Independent UN and major human-rights organizations have concluded that Israel’s conduct in Gaza meets the legal and factual thresholds of genocide or genocidal acts, while Israeli authorities and man...
Independent United Nations and major human-rights organisations — including a UN Commission of Inquiry, Amnesty International, B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel — have concluded that act...
Israeli casualty figures have been produced and updated through a mix of official military and government tallies, internal intelligence databases, health-ministry bulletins, and independent NGO and U...
A growing body of authoritative investigations and major human-rights organizations have concluded that actions by Israeli authorities in Gaza meet the factual and legal thresholds for genocide under ...
International human rights organizations overwhelmingly evaluate Israeli policies tied to Zionist objectives as systemic, rights‑violating practices — with major NGOs and UN bodies accusing Israeli au...
Israel’s presence west of the Jordan River includes areas within its 1949 armistice lines (sovereign Israel) and territories captured in 1967 — the West Bank, East Jerusalem and parts of Gaza and the ...