Al-Haq is gravely concerned over the continuation of Israel’s genocidal onslaught on the Gaza Strip. Over the months since the declaration of the so-called ‘ceasefire’, Al-Haq has been monitoring the situation of human rights in the Gaza Strip closely. Al-Haq observes that under the guise of the so-called ‘ceasefire’ and ‘peace talks’, Palestinians continue to be killed by the Israeli Occupying Forces (IOF) in the Gaza Strip. Hardly a single day passes without the IOF killing Palestinians in Gaza. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health over 856 Palestinians, mostly children and women, have been killed and around 2,463 have been injured as a result of Isreal’s continued attacks on civilian population, since the so-called ceasefire on 11 October 2025. On the current figures, 122 Palestinians are killed on average per month in Gaza. At least 72,742 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza, and 172,565 Palestinians injured since 7 October 2023.

In addition to the continuing killings, the destruction of property and infrastructures, the restrictions on the access of food and medical supplies, and forcible displacement–– Israel is also creating new facts on the ground in an annexationist land grab–– expanding the so-called Yellow Line and drawing a new Orange Line, forcing Palestinians into a thin strip into the ever-shrinking eastern part of Gaza. Israel’s Prime Minister, Netanyahu announced in a speech on 14 May, to rapturous applause, “Today we control 60% of Gaza — and tomorrow… well, we will see”. Last December, Israel’s military Chief of General Staff, Eyal Zamir explained to soldiers in Gaza, “[t]he ‘yellow line’ is a new border line”.

It is crystal clear that these acts are part and parcel of Isreal’s genocidal campaign in the Gaza Strip. Paradoxically, all of this has been happening with the approval of the so-called ‘Board of Peace’–– an imposed administration acting in Gaza without a Chapter VII mandate and without international legal personality in breach of the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to self-determination–– which has marginalized all other actors including the United Nations and Third States at large, acting to stop the killing or destruction or save what is remaining of the Gaza Strip.

States on the so-called ‘Board of Peace’ are complicit in ongoing genocidal acts and have greenlighted Israel’s annexationist imposition of another Orange Line in Gaza. The ‘Board of Peace’ actively continues to support Israel’s unlawful naval blockade and closure of Gaza, and restrictions on humanitarian aid, issuing derogatory undiplomatic smears against international humanitarian activists trying to bring aid to Palestinians in Gaza. Not even a small signal of respect to international law or a sign which reflects an intent to act to end the wrongful acts have been made by the members of the ‘Board of Peace’.[1]

Israel’s continuing genocidal acts are enabled in Gaza by the suspicious silence and even the involvement of members of the so-called ‘Board of Peace’. Israel is striving to normalize its unlawful presence[2] and genocidal destruction in Gaza, by pushing the international community to adapt to a situation where it can continue its attacks against Palestinian civilians and their properties, and continue the killing of their leaders through targeted executions, whenever it wishes with complete impunity.

In light of this, Al-Haq sees it important to remind Third States that these crimes are being committed despite the ruling of the ICJ in the South Africa v Israel case which found that genocide is plausible in the Gaza Strip and ordered provisional measures against Israel to stop the crime of genocide from taking place and causing irreparable harm to Palestinians in Gaza. However, the only thing that has changed since then is the scale of crimes. If the ‘Peace Board’ was sincere in its endeavors, it would take action to force Isreal, the Occupying Power, to stop its crimes, allow for the free flow of foods and medical supplies, pressure Isreal to leave areas it exercises its direct control over within the so-called Yellow and Orange Lines and move to next phases to enable the reconstruction and return of people to their homes, and end Israel’s unlawful presence and apartheid.

Al-Haq believes that Israel’s practices are indicative of a pattern of genocidal intent represented in pushing Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip in conditions unfit for human survival, to destroy the Palestinian group. The silence and the complicity of some of the “Peace Board” members can only serve one single goal, i.e., the entrenchment of Isreal’s settler colonial apartheid regime in Palestine at the expense of the Palestinian people and in breach of their right inalienable right to self-determination, contrary to well established principles of international law. The ICJ’s July 2024 Palestine Advisory Opinion recognized Israel’s presence in the Palestinian territory as unlawful and called for its termination without delay.   

Al-Haq stresses that all “peace” proposals and initiatives that ignore the root causes of the situation in Palestine i.e., the imposition of Israel’s settler colonial apartheid regime on both sides of the Green Line, and the need to dismantle it, will definitely fail. It is therefore imperative that all States act to put an end to Israel’s crimes, including by imposing sanctions on Isreal and holding perpetrators of international crimes accountable. In this context Al-Haq calls on States parties to the Rome Statue of the International Criminal Court to fully cooperate with the Court.