A ceasefire on paper. The Peace Council consecrates genocide!
Afrasianet - Friday 3/7/2026 marks the 1,000th anniversary of the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation forces on the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, in full view of the world, without the international community, specifically the States parties to the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, taking action to stop it or punish its perpetrators.
According to the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, the ceasefire that came into effect on October 10, 2025, within the framework of US President Donald Trump's peace plan, has not translated on the ground, as the occupation forces continue their military campaign, while the reality of the so-called Peace Council, which emanates from that plan, reveals a path that enshrines the continuation of genocide instead of stopping it, while the threat of forced displacement remains on the heads of more than two million Palestinians.
The Roots of Crime: From Sieges to Successive Wars
The ongoing war of genocide is not a separate event from a longer historical context, but rather an episode in a long series of international crimes committed by the occupying forces against the Palestinian people, within the framework of a settler-colonial regime based on the ethnic cleansing of indigenous landowners, their expulsion from it, and the denial of their right to self-determination.
Since 2007, the occupying forces have imposed a comprehensive blockade on the Gaza Strip, which has caused a man-made humanitarian catastrophe that has affected every detail of the daily life of its inhabitants and has led to an unprecedented deterioration in their living conditions, in the context of a systematic policy to create a repellent environment that makes it difficult for Palestinians to continue to exist in their Strip.
In parallel with this blockade, the occupying forces launched four consecutive wars on the Gaza Strip between 2008 and 2021, causing thousands of victims, most of them civilians, and extensively destroying hospitals, schools, places of worship, residential buildings, economic facilities, and infrastructure.
Field investigations have concluded that the occupying forces deliberately targeted civilians and civilian property, which has also been confirmed by independent international commissions of inquiry, including the fact-finding mission established by the UN Human Rights Council following the 2008 aggression, which documented that the destruction of food facilities, water and sanitation networks, concrete factories and housing units was the result of a deliberate policy adopted by the Israeli forces, not because it represents a military threat, but because it makes the daily life of the civilian population more difficult.
Declared Intent and Documented Actions
From the first moments of the large-scale military offensive on October 7, 2023, the intention to commit the crime of genocide was not hidden, according to the Center for Human Rights, which indicates that it was reflected in two consecutive tracks: the first was public statements made by Israeli political and military leaders in front of the media, which were accompanied by official decisions taken by the state; the second was the actual actions on the ground and their direct and far-reaching repercussions, such as killing, destruction, inflicting physical harm and systematic destruction of livelihoods, making the continued existence of Palestinians as a national group in the Gaza is impossible.
A Thousand Days of Destruction: Figures Sum Up the Tragedy
Over the course of a thousand days, the occupation forces dropped thousands of tons of bombs, some weighing up to 1,000 kilograms, on cities, residential neighborhoods, and vital health, educational, and service facilities, completely destroying cities and neighborhoods, leveling thousands of houses to the ground over the heads of their inhabitants, targeting hospitals, ambulance and civil defense centers, wiping out universities and schools, destroying road, electricity, water and sewage networks, while farms, factories, commercial markets, and fishing ports were bombed and destroyed.
The occupying forces displaced more than two million Palestinians from their homes as a result of the shelling and hundreds of eviction orders that affected all areas of the Gaza Strip, and forced them to flee repeatedly in search of a safe haven that they could not find, as they were bombed even inside the shelters and tents that were supposed to provide them with protection.
The occupation forces also directly targeted medical staff, ambulance teams and civil defense as they tried to rescue the wounded and retrieve the bodies from under the rubble.
The occupying forces prevented the flow of food, medical aid and basic needs, used starvation as a tool of war, and carried out extensive arrest campaigns during which thousands of men, women and children were subjected to brutal torture methods that killed dozens of them inside detention centers. PCHR documented horrific testimonies of detainees who were sexually assaulted and raped during interrogation, while thousands of Palestinians are still missing, after documenting more than 540 cases of enforced disappearance.
According to official statements in Gaza, the genocidal war over the course of 1,000 days claimed the lives of more than 73,000 Palestinians, injured more than 173,000 others, and civilians constituted the vast majority of the victims, including 21,500 children and 12,500 women, representing 55% of the total martyrs, in addition to about 1,700 doctors and health workers, 300 civil defense personnel and municipal staff, and 262 journalists, many of whom were directly targeted while performing their work .Dozens of UN staff members were also killed.
International justice condemns. Impunity continues
Since the first days of the attack, the Palestinian Center for Human Rights, along with other Palestinian human rights organizations, have believed that official Israeli statements and decisions intersect with the facts on the ground in an inexplicable way, indicating a clear approach to carrying out a genocide that targets the Palestinians as a national group, not only through murder, but also through the destruction of the present and future ways of life.
On 29 December 2023, South Africa filed a lawsuit before the International Court of Justice in The Hague, accusing Israel of committing acts of genocide in Gaza, and demanding interim measures to protect the rights of the Palestinian people under the Genocide Convention.
On 26 January 2024, the Court issued a binding decision in which it considered that there was reasonable grounds to believe that Israel was committing genocide against Palestinians, and imposed interim measures obliging Israel to prevent genocide, ensure access to basic services and humanitarian assistance, and prevent and punish incitement to commit them. Since then, the Court has issued six interim measures, all of which have been challenged by the occupying Power without compliance.
On November 21, 2024, the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued two arrest warrants against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his then-army minister, Yoav Gallant, on charges of war crimes, including the use of starvation as a weapon, deliberate attack on civilians, the crime of persecution and other inhumane acts. However, these decisions, despite their symbolic and legal importance, did not deter the occupying power, which continued its military campaign on the Gaza Strip.
Gaza Today: A Hell Without Hospitals and Universities
The current scene in Gaza, after a thousand days of war, is nothing but hell, as the occupation forces have expanded their actual control over the land to reach about 70% of the Gaza Strip, while about 2.3 million people are crammed into a strip of no more than 100 square kilometers, with a population density of about 23,000 people per square kilometer, which is unprecedented globally, the majority of whom live in tents that lack the most basic elements of survival.
There are no hospitals, no health facilities, no universities, no schools, and an entire generation whose identity is obliterated and whose memory is erased. Epidemics are spreading as a result of the collapse of the health system and water, electricity and sewage networks, and garbage accumulates inside residential neighborhoods after the occupation prevented its transfer to collection sites, while the humanitarian crisis is exacerbated by the continued obstruction of access to food, medicine and fuel needed to operate hospitals, water stations and bakeries, as only a drop of aid arrives in the vicinity of needs.
A ceasefire on paper. The Peace Council consecrates genocide
Nearly nine months have passed since the ceasefire came into effect on October 10, 2025, without a fundamental change in the genocidal campaign, as the Palestinian Center for Human Rights confirms that the ceasefire does not actually exist on the ground, as the occupation forces continued to shell and shoot in various areas of the Gaza Strip, resulting in the death of more than 990 Palestinians and the injury of more than 3000 others since that date.
The Center believes that the peace plan put forward by US President Donald Trump, and the resulting "peace council" that he chairs, in fact only means the institutionalization and continuation of the crime of genocide, as it has given the occupying forces free rein to continue killing, destruction and displacement, and has not allowed the entry of medicine, food or reconstruction materials, and has not allowed the return of some 200,000 Palestinians who have been displaced from their areas to the Gaza Strip, while the risks of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing remain real and real.
Absent international responsibility
The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) concludes that the crime of genocide in Gaza is being committed and broadcast live in front of the entire world, with the full support of the United States and several Western countries that provide Israel with weapons and materiel in addition to political support, which makes it a key party in the crime, whether with direct support or complicity.
PCHR attributes Israel's continued blatant defiance of international law to the lack of accountability inherent in the international system and the immunity afforded to it by allied states, considering that what is happening in Gaza today is the harvest of decades of Western support for the policy of impunity. The Center calls on the international community to shoulder its legal and moral responsibilities to put an end to this flagrant violation of international law.
Summary of the Facts and Harvest of the Two Years of the Genocide War: 7/10/2023 - 7/10/2025
Since October 7, 2023, and over two consecutive years of continuous Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and all Palestinians, Israel, the occupying Power, has committed a horrific systematic genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.
This crime has resulted in the death and injury of nearly a quarter of a million Palestinians, the vast majority of whom are children and women, as well as thousands of missing people who remain under the rubble, in light of the extensive and unprecedented destruction of homes, civilian installations and critical infrastructure, including hospitals, health centres, universities and schools.
The situation has also worsened to the point of mass starvation that has claimed hundreds of lives, including at least 200 children.
The periodic reports of the Palestinian Ministry of Health indicate that these ongoing violations cannot be reduced to numbers and statistics, as they represent a flagrant and comprehensive violation of all the rules of international humanitarian law and international human rights law, and constitute a deliberate targeting of the entire health system, which amounts to a full-fledged genocide against the Palestinian people.
According to the statistics and data received, the number of martyrs from 7/10/2023 to 7/10/2025 reached 67173 martyrs and the injured reached 169780, including 20179 children, 10427 women, 4813 elderly people, and 31754 men.
The number of martyrs from the medical staff reached 1701 martyrs, and 362 detainees in conditions of detention, enforced disappearance and deprivation of their human rights.
25 hospitals out of 38 hospitals have gone out of service, while 13 hospitals are still partially operating and in difficult conditions, and the occupation destroyed 103 primary health care centers, out of 157 centers, while 54 centers are partially operational.
The suspension of regular medical supplies, the obstruction of their safe access to hospitals, and the increase in the number of injuries and martyrs exacerbated the shortage of medicines and medical consumables in vital departments, where the percentage of zero items of medicines reached 55%, medical consumables 66%, and laboratory supplies 68%.
The occupancy rate of beds in hospitals increased to 225% until the end of last September, compared to the same period last year, which reached 82%, which is a catastrophic rate with the increase in admissions and critical injuries.
The direct targeting of health institutions led to the destruction of electrical and electromechanical systems, as the occupation destroyed 25 out of 35 oxygen generating stations, and 61 out of 110 generators.
The levels of famine in the Gaza Strip have worsened to dangerous levels, according to UN classifications, as 460 deaths due to famine and malnutrition have been recorded, including 154 children, while 51,196 children under the age of five are still suffering from acute malnutrition.
The overcrowding of citizens in the areas of forced gathering, which is falsely called inhumane, has exacerbated their health and humanitarian conditions with the lack of the necessities of life, which has led to the spread of diseases, the lack of sources of safe drinking water, and the deprivation of food sources.
Preventing the arrival of routine and emergency vaccinations has led to a reduction in the coverage of pediatric vaccinations to 80%, in addition to the suspension of the fourth phase of polio preventive vaccination, which threatens to fail the previous stages as the spread of the disease increases.
4900 amputations and disabilities in need of support tools and long-term rehabilitation programs.
The closure of the crossing to the departure of the sick and wounded has deprived 18,000 patients of travel abroad, including 5,580 children.
Starvation as a weapon of war
Last August, the Integrated Food Security Phases Classification (IPC) – an international initiative involving UN agencies – announced that famine had officially erupted in Gaza governorate, with serious indications that it had spread to Deir al-Balah and Khan Younis.
According to the report, more than half a million people are living under catastrophic conditions (phase five), where they face starvation and severe life-threatening malnutrition, while more than 1.07 million people (54% of the population) are living in the fourth "emergency" phase. About 396,000 (20% of the population) are in the third phase of the crisis.
This represents the worst collapse in food security since the global launch of the classification and the first time an official famine has been recorded in the Middle East.
"Recent developments on the ground – chief among them the escalation of fighting, the recurrence of forced displacement and the suffocating tightening of aid entry – have pushed Gaza into an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe, with most of the population lacking the basic necessities of life such as food, water and health services," UN agencies warned.
Since October 2023, famine has claimed the lives of 459 people, including 154 children, under a tight Israeli blockade that prevents the flow of aid, as trucks pile up at the crossings, while allowing meager quantities "only a drop in the ocean," according to the UN.
By the time of March 2, the occupation doubled its restrictions and completely closed the crossings to aid convoys, turning starvation into a systematic tool of war aimed at suffocating Gaza and its inhabitants to the last breath.
Forced displacement and mass displacement
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) confirms that nearly 1.9 million people – more than 85 per cent of the population of the Gaza Strip – have been forcibly displaced since the outbreak of the war, and that the vast majority of the population has been forced to displace at least once, under unprecedented harsh humanitarian conditions.
According to the United Nations, more than 1.2 million people have been forced to flee Gaza City alone since mid-March, after the city turned into an arena of mass destruction.
On 11 August, the occupying army launched a large-scale attack on neighbourhoods in Gaza City, using robot booby-trapped and heavy artillery shelling, as well as orders for forced displacement, as part of an announced plan to gradually reoccupy the Gaza Strip, starting in the heart of Gaza City, which was officially approved by the occupying Government on 8 August.
This policy was not just a "military operation", but rather an integrated plan to empty the Gaza Strip of its inhabitants through field pressure, starvation, destruction of the necessities of life, and the transformation of civilians into endless displacement convoys.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), 88 percent of the Gaza Strip – equivalent to 316 square kilometers out of 360 – is under Israeli eviction orders, effectively meaning the forced displacement of millions of Palestinians from their homes.
According to UN reports, 15 per cent of displaced people have had to walk for long hours in search of shelter, while thousands of families have sold their remaining possessions to cover transport costs, while thousands more have been unable to do so and forced to walk under bombardment, in a tragic scene that reduces the suffering of the elderly, the sick and people with disabilities who have not been able to survive.
In the northern Gaza Strip and Gaza City, hundreds of thousands remain trapped in devastated areas, deprived of any safe exit route. As of July, 73 of the 95 shelters that had existed had been closed, and only 40 remained as of late September, operating at capacity and lacking the basic necessities of life.
With this collapse, many humanitarian organizations have been forced to suspend their operations or withdraw altogether due to security risks and logistical capacity, leaving tens of thousands of civilians in the open, without shelter, protection or food.
What is happening in Gaza today is an organized mass displacement that amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity under international law, where civilians are becoming direct targets of a systematic policy that seeks to forcibly reshape the demographic reality of the Strip, in a crude repetition of the Nakba scenario, but this time in the eyes of the whole world.
Educational Genocide
In an unprecedented crime targeting the future of Palestinian generations, the Ministry of Education and Higher Education has documented that the education system in the Gaza Strip has been subjected to systematic destruction that amounts to genocide.
The Israeli occupation has completely destroyed more than 179 public schools, severely damaged 118 other public schools, while international institutions have not been spared from the aggression, as more than 100 UNRWA schools have been bombed and directly sabotaged.
The crimes did not stop at the borders of public education, but extended to higher education, where 20 university institutions were severely damaged, and more than 63 university buildings were completely destroyed, leaving classrooms, laboratories, and libraries piles of rubble.
In terms of human losses, the Ministry recorded the martyrdom of more than 18,069 students from schools, and the injury of more than 26,391 others, in addition to the martyrdom of 1,319 university students and the injury of 2,809 others, from October 7, 2023, until September 30.
The Israeli war machine also affected the same teaching staff, where 1,016 teachers and academics were killed and 4,667 others were injured, in a crime that targeted both teachers and students.
The Ministry of Education pointed out that 30 schools in Gaza – with all their students and teachers – have been removed from the educational register permanently, in a scene that reduces the maximum degree of systematic liquidation of the educational system.
As a result, more than 630,000 students have been deprived of their basic right to education, in addition to tens of thousands of children who have reached kindergarten age but have found themselves without seats, classrooms, or educational institutions to accommodate them.
Despite the horror of the disaster, the Ministry did not give in to the project of educational annihilation. It was able to hold the high school exam electronically for students born in the Gaza Strip born in 2006, where about 27,000 students from various directorates took the exam, and the ministry is preparing to hold the exam for the next batch of students born in 2007. However, the war had deprived more than 70,000 students born in 2006 and 2007 of completing this fateful entitlement.
In order to confront the huge educational vacuum, the Ministry has worked to launch virtual schools, in addition to providing partial and face-to-face alternative learning spaces, in an attempt to save what remains of students' right to learn, and to emphasize that the aggression may destroy buildings but will not be able to extinguish the flame of knowledge or break the will to educate Palestinians.
What is happening in Gaza cannot only be described as a "violation of the right to education", but also a total educational genocide, targeting stone, humanity and the future, undermining the ability of an entire people to continue their lives and criminalizing them with ignorance and deprivation, in a dangerous precedent that the world has never witnessed in the modern era.
Urban Annihilation and Environmental Disaster
Of the estimated 250,000 structures in the Gaza Strip, 78 per cent are damaged or completely destroyed, leaving behind some 61 million tonnes of rubble, about 15 per cent of which is believed to be contaminated with carcinogenic asbestos, toxic industrial waste, or deadly heavy metals.
This rubble is not just demolished stones, but a toxic legacy that threatens the environment and public health for decades, and foreshadows an environmental catastrophe that could extend to future generations of Gazans.
"The situation is going from bad to worse, and if it continues like this, it will leave a legacy of environmental destruction that will directly affect the health and well-being of Gazans for years to come," the UN programme warned.
These words clearly reveal that the aggression has not only targeted human beings, but also the place, the environment and the elements of life itself, in an attempt to kill the future and annihilate the earth with its contents.
Satellite imagery from the United Nations Satellite Centre (UNOSAT), whose data is updated quarterly, provided shocking visual evidence of the accelerating pace of destruction.
On July 8, the photos recorded a staggering increase in the number of buildings completely destroyed in the Gaza and northern governorates, reaching 42,470 buildings that were completely destroyed, compared to only 33,837 buildings on February 25, 2025.
These figures reveal that the pace of demolitions has exceeded the capacity of any society to bear, and that the destruction is expanding deliberately and systematically day by day.
The occupation has not only caused extensive destruction in the Rafah governorate in the southern Gaza Strip, but in recent months, it has targeted residential towers in the heart of Gaza City, destroying civilian infrastructure in an unprecedented way in modern history.
Palestinian cities have been turned into concrete graveyards, rubble has risen to become a permanent landmark of geography, while the civilian population remains in the midst of displacement, deprivation and siege, deprived of any opportunity to rebuild or re-emerge.
What Gaza is experiencing today cannot be described as a mere war or aggression, but rather a full-fledged urban and environmental genocide aimed at uprooting man from his land, destroying his environment and erasing his urban and historical memory.
It is a complex crime that affects stone, people, air and water, and sows a toxic legacy of destruction in the heart of the Gaza Strip that threatens the Palestinian existence now and in the future.
Cultural Genocide
Over the course of the two years of Israel's war on the Gaza Strip, deeper features of one of the most prominent forms of cultural annihilation in the modern era have emerged: the destruction was not limited to buildings or physical infrastructure, but also extended to collective memory, national identity, and the cultural scene in all its components.
Libraries have been burned, museums have been destroyed, cultural centers and institutions have been razed to the ground, and institutions of memory, education and the arts have been reduced to rubble, in a scene that reflects a systematic targeting of the Palestinian cultural and knowledge structure, and indicates a deliberate attempt to erase the history and cultural identity of the Palestinian people.
The Palestinian National Library has monitored the effects of the destruction of the cultural heritage in the Gaza Strip during two years of war, which left widespread destruction, resulting in more than 67,000 martyrs and about 170,000 wounded, and in which infrastructure, including cultural monuments, educational and artistic institutions, was subjected to extensive destruction that affected the essence of cultural life in the Strip.
The cultural and historical heritage in the Gaza Strip is facing severe danger as a result of the war, destruction and systematic cultural annihilation, which leads to the Israeli occupation's efforts to erase Palestinian identity and history and reduce the ability of future generations to access their history.
A wealth of rare books, manuscripts, historical documents, private and administrative archives, audio-visual materials, equipment, manual and electronic preservation tools, land registry, civil records, historical collectibles and artifacts were destroyed.
The destruction extended to hundreds of historical buildings, as at least (226) archaeological sites in the Gaza Strip were damaged, including the destruction of the historic Beit al-Saqqa, which dates back to the Ottoman period, the Sabat Al-Alami House, which dates back to the seventeenth century AD, the Camellian school, and the Hammam al-Samra, which was the last of the Ottoman baths in Gaza, as well as the bombing of the Baptist Hospital, a historical building built in 1882, and the port of Balakhiya, in addition to targeting the site of Tal al-Ajwal, which represents the history of Gaza in the two Bronze Ages The Middle and Late Monastery, and the Monastery of St. Hilarion, which was subjected to an air raid that led to the destruction of part of it, and is one of the oldest monasteries in the Middle East.
In addition to the occupation's shelling of four ancient churches that are considered important cultural symbols in Palestine, including the Church of St. Porphyrius, the oldest church in Gaza and the third oldest church in the world, and the Baptist Church and its hospital, and the bombing and destruction of more than (1000) mosques that were completely or partially destroyed, including the Al-Omari Mosque in Gaza, which is one of the most important and oldest mosques in historic Palestine, the Sayyid Hashem Mosque, and the archaeological mosque of Othman Qashqar, as well as the complete destruction of (8) cemeteries, including the bulldozing of the Beit Hanoun cemetery and the excavation of ( 600 tombs in it, the Roman cemetery, which dates back to about 2000 years, and included a group of sarcophagi made of lead, and the cemetery of Deir al-Balah, which dates back to the Late Bronze Age.
Palestinian prisoners in the shadow of the war of extermination
In light of an unprecedented escalation, the occupation prisons are witnessing another aspect of genocide through the execution of deliberate killings and executions of prisoners and detainees.
The number of prisoner martyrs whose identities have been announced since the beginning of the war has reached at least 77, while dozens of Gaza detainees who were martyred remain in enforced disappearance.
This outcome is a compelling testimony to the most brutal times in the history of our prisoner movement, which has endured for decades in the face of the prison system, which has worked to destroy the prisoner physically and psychologically and liquidate him by various means.
The occupation authorities are also holding the bodies of 85 prisoners who were martyred inside the prisons, including 74 since the start of the war of extermination.
The number of martyrs of the Palestinian prisoner movement since 1967 is estimated at 314, based on what human rights institutions have been able to document over the past decades until today.
According to the statistics received, the number of arrests in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, since the beginning of the war of extermination, has reached about 20,000 arrests, including about 1,600 children and about 595 women, where the cases of arrest include those who were arrested and kept in custody by the occupation and those who were later released, so this figure constitutes a historic difference in the numbers of those who were arrested within just two years, stressing that this figure does not include the cases of arrests in Gaza, which are estimated at thousands, as well as Data on the arrest campaigns in the occupied territories in 1948.
Based on hundreds of documented testimonies, physical evidence, and public threats issued by the Minister of National Security in the extremist occupation government, Itamar Ben Gvir, the prisoners' institutions confirm that what is happening against the prisoners goes beyond grave violations to constitute "war crimes" and "crimes against humanity", which were committed on a large scale, and the Israeli judicial system, including the Supreme Court, has formed a cover for the practice of further brutality against the prisoners.
These include: the crimes of torture, murder, robbery, starvation, deliberate causing the spread of diseases and epidemics, denial of treatment, sexual assaults that have reached the point of rape, in addition to the policy of mass isolation.
These practices, which aim at the systematic physical and psychological destruction of Palestinian prisoners, bear clear indications of the protracted genocide practiced by the "Israeli occupying Power" in its detention facilities.
Palestinian Sports in the Light of the War of Genocide
Two years have passed since the outbreak of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023. Two years in which Palestinian sports suffered the bitterness of the war, and almost all aspects of sports activity stopped, after stadiums turned into rubble yards, and the sports family lost hundreds of martyrs, including players, coaches and administrators.
Total sports paralysis since the first day of the aggression
From the first day of the aggression, the sporting movement was completely paralyzed. Tournaments were canceled, leagues were suspended, and the training of national teams and clubs was disrupted, while the headquarters and stadiums of the Palestinian Football Association became a direct target of attacks.
In Gaza, the Israeli shelling completely destroyed football stadiums, the headquarters of the Federation, the Olympic Committee, and a number of clubs, including the beach services, Rafah services, and the Khan Younis Union, as well as targeting other sports facilities in multiple areas, where the number of destroyed facilities in the Gaza Strip reached 269 facilities in whole or in part, in addition to 20 facilities completely or partially destroyed by the occupation in the West Bank, in addition to the continuous violations that affected sports facilities in the West Bank, including the destruction of stadiums and the demolition of club centers in Jenin, Tulkarem and Nour Shams refugee camp, the most recent of which was on October 5, when the occupation forces threw tear gas and stun grenades at the headquarters of the Palestinian Football Association in the town of Al-Ram.
Hundreds of martyrs of athletes
During the past two years, the Palestinian Football Association has documented the martyrdom of more than 949 athletes since the start of the aggression, including more than 467 football players.
Prominent stars in the football arena were martyred, such as Suleiman Al-Obaid, one of the symbols of the Beach Services Club and the former national team, the general coach of the national Olympic team, Hani Al-Masdar, the Palestinian international referee Mohammed Khattab, and dozens of other players, coaches and administrators.
The suspension of the football season and the absence of competitions
In the face of this bitter reality, the Palestinian Football Association found itself forced to officially cancel the 2023/2024 football season, due to the impossibility of continuing sports activity under the conditions of war, provided that the results of the 2022/2023 season are based on official records, and other sports federations have suspended their competitions, in a scene that Palestinian sports have not known for decades.
Bloody toll after two years:
According to the latest updates as of October 5, 2025, the numbers paint a tragic picture:
- 949 martyrs from the sports movement in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
- 44 injured, including those with permanent disabilities that ended their sports career.
- 29 detained athletes and sports workers are still languishing in Israeli prisons.
- 289 sports facilities that were completely or partially destroyed or were raided.
The committee explained that "these figures, which are increasing day by day, reflect not only the scale of the crimes, but also the size of the loss experienced by Palestinian sports in all its details, from players, coaches, referees, administrators, and even stadiums, halls and facilities that were once a field of dreams and hope."
Ultimately, two years after the aggression, Israel's crimes are no longer just a passing war, but a systematic war of genocide targeting the entire Palestinian presence in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. It is a historical crime that is beyond description in its brutality, with its killing, bloodshed, terror and destruction, in a scene that exceeds the boundaries of imagination and reveals an organized policy to exterminate the Palestinian people and uproot their right to life, freedom and dignity.
When war threatens the physical existence of a group of populations, and is based on killing, shedding, intimidation, forced displacement, starvation and a pattern of systematic attack on the civilian population, it is an act of full-fledged genocide and "grave violations" under the rules of the Geneva Conventions and international law as a whole.
List of Israeli massacres in Gaza 2023-2024
This is a tribute list of Israeli massacres in Gaza 2023-2024 as the Israeli army has committed numerous massacres and massacres in the Gaza Strip since the beginning of the Palestinian-Israeli war.
Massacres
Massacres against Palestinians
The massacre of Khasas . Deir Yassin massacre · The Eye of Zaytoun massacre · The First Al-Aqsa Massacre The Second Al-Aqsa Massacre . The Third Al-Aqsa Massacre The massacre of the Sheikh's country . The Massacre of Dawaymeh The Willow Massacre . The Abu Shusha massacre · The Massacre of Tantora The Lod Massacre The Ailboun massacre · Sa'sa massacre · The Qabiya massacre . Qalqilya massacre · Kafr Qasim massacre Khan Younis massacre Yazur massacre · The Massacre of the Tomb of the Patriarchs · Beit Deras Massacre Jenin massacre · The massacre of Deir Ayoub Haifa Massacre Gaza Holocaust (February 2008) The 2008–2009 Gaza War · The 2012 Gaza War The 2014 Gaza War · The Shujaiya massacre . The Palestinian Intifada (2015-2016) Gaza-Israel Clashes (November 2018) Gaza-Israel Clashes (May 2019) Gaza-Israel Clashes (November 2019).
