Occupied Palestine

Since October 2023, Gaza has endured what many international jurists and human rights experts describe as a genocidal campaign. The deliberate and systematic destruction of civilian life, infrastructure, and essential services by Israeli forces has resulted in over 67,000 Palestinians killed, among them more than 15,000 children, and 169,000 injured or permanently disabled (Reuters, 2025). Entire families have been erased, whole neighborhoods turned to dust, and hospitals and schools reduced to ruins. By contrast, Israeli authorities report around 1,665 Israeli deaths since 7 October 2023, highlighting the extreme disproportionality of this violence.

U.N. experts, and organizations such as Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the South African government in its case before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) have argued that Israel’s actions may constitute genocide, given the scale of civilian killings, the intentional deprivation of food, water, and medicine, and explicit rhetoric calling for the annihilation of the Palestinian people.

This tragedy is rooted in a colonial occupation that has persisted since 1967, in defiance of international law, the Oslo Accords, and multiple U.N. resolutions. For decades, Palestinians have endured dispossession, siege, and apartheid-like control, stripped of fundamental rights and dignity.

UAI works to build a narrative of humanity, truth, and justice—to document every crime, give voice to survivors, and demand accountability under international law. To speak of genocide is not hyperbole but an act of moral and legal recognition. Only through acknowledging the scale of the atrocity and confronting the structures that sustain it can we move toward a future grounded in peace, equality, and justice for all.

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