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Amnesty International: Fresh evidence of deadly unlawful attacks in the occupied Gaza Strip, gathered by Amnesty International, demonstrates how Israeli forces continue to flout international humanitarian law, obliterating entire families with total impunity. In all four attacks, the organization did not find any indication that the residential buildings hit could be considered legitimate military objectives or that people in the buildings were military targets, raising concerns that these strikes were direct attacks on civilians and civilian objects and must therefore be investigated as war crimes.

Amnesty International: Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza. According to Amnesty International’s findings there were no military objectives in the house or its immediate vicinity, this indicates that this may be a direct attack on civilians or on a civilian object which is prohibited and a war crime.

Time: Ben Caspit, writing in the daily Maariv, said the rise of Israel's far-right has helped create an environment that makes it easier for forces to open fire. He also highlighted a common sentiment among Israel's hard-line right wing that there are no noncombatants in Gaza. That has fueled concerns among critics that Israeli forces are not being discriminate in their combat.

The New Arab: Israel killing Gaza civilians in strikes with no military objective: report. Israeli strikes that killed dozens of civilians in Gaza had no legitimate military objectives, an investigation by Amnesty International has found. Amnesty's report details how 95 civilians, including 42 children, were killed across four separate strikes — three in December and one in January — in Rafah. Israel had previously designated the southern border city as a safe zone, causing around 1.5 million Palestinians to seek shelter there. "These attacks illustrate an ongoing pattern of Israeli forces brazenly flouting international law, contradicting claims by Israeli authorities that their forces are taking heightened precautions to minimize harm to civilians," Guevara-Rosas said.

Reliefweb: Israel intensifies premeditated murder and sniper attacks against Palestinian civilians. The Israeli army has escalated its premeditated murders, extrajudicial executions and judicial killings against Palestinian civilians through direct targeting with snipers and drones in various regions of the Gaza Strip.

Reliefweb: Israeli tanks have deliberately run over dozens of Palestinian civilians alive. The Israeli army’s repeated killings of Palestinian civilians by deliberately running them over alive with military vehicles was vehemently denounced by Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor on Sunday, as was the widespread destruction of civilian property.

B’Tselem (israelsk menneskerettighetsorganisasjon): Top Israeli officials criminally liable for knowingly ordering strike expected to harm civilians, including children, in the Gaza Strip.

B’Tselem: Israel is not fighting against Hamas but against civilians, implementing a criminal policy of bombings.

Human Rights Watch: Israel: Starvation Used as Weapon of War in Gaza. Evidence Indicates Civilians Deliberately Denied Access to Food, Water

The New Arab: Israel knowingly targets civilians in Gaza using AI: report. The investigation used sources from within the Israeli military to detail how Israel's bombardment of Gaza has led to such catastrophic civilian casualties.

International Federation of Journalists: UN concludes that IDF "intentionally or recklessly" killed Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh

Committee to Protect Journalists: CPJ is investigating all reports of journalists and media workers killed, injured, or missing in the war, whichxhas led to the deadliest period for journalists since CPJ began gathering data in 1992. As of March 20: - 95 journalists and media workers were confirmed dead: 90 Palestinian, 2 Israeli, and 3 Lebanese. - 16 journalists were reported injured. - 4 journalists were reported missing. - 25 journalists were reported arrested. - Multiple assaults, threats, cyberattacks, censorship, and killings of family members.

Mondoweiss: The ongoing genocidal war on Gaza is not about Hamas or the Israeli captives in Gaza. Israel has more strategic goals for this war. One goal was crystal clear from the beginning: widespread destruction and industrial-scale slaughter. The Israeli Prime Minister invoked passages of scripture that describe exacting revenge on the Amalek, thus promising genocidal violence and destruction. This was complemented by a plethora of officials vowing to “eliminate everything in Gaza” and turn it into “a city of tents” while others normalized the promised slaughter by systematic dehumanization in which Palestinians were called “human animals”, and “children of darkness”. High-level officials, including the Israeli President, even went as far as saying that there are no innocent civilians in Gaza.

FN: The world must act now to end the horrifying and massive attacks against civilian housing and infrastructure in Gaza, which comes at a tremendous cost to human life, a UN expert said today. “Carrying out hostilities with the knowledge that they will systematically destroy and damage civilian housing and infrastructure, rendering an entire city – such as Gaza city - uninhabitable for civilians is a war crime,” said the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing. In a recent report to the UN General Assembly, Rajagopal used the term “domicide” to refer to such systematic or widespread attacks on housing and civilian infrastructure that causes death and suffering.

Mondoweiss: They let humanitarian aid in. Then they bombed it so that Gaza would starve. One of the bakeries that Israel bombed in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a shipment of flour from UNRWA meant to cover the food needs of the entire camp. Israel waited to bomb it once all the flour was unloaded. One of the bakeries targeted in Nuseirat refugee camp had just received a huge shipment of flour from UNRWA, which had agreed with the bakery to sell the bread from the flour at half-price for the camp residents. UNRWA had just finished unloading the shipment, which was meant to cover the needs of the entire Nuseirat area, when the bakery was bombed and completely destroyed. They aren’t only targeting people and homes. They’re letting in aid, and then they destroy it before it reaches the people who need it. It’s calculated and deliberate. It’s meant to exterminate the civilianxpopulation.

BBC (og legg merke til at dette er på Vestbredden, ikke Gaza): Israel is accused of having targeted a group of Palestinian civilians with no links to armed groups and who posed no threat to Israeli forces, according to witnesses in the occupied West Bank. The UN's human rights body described the situation in the West Bank at the end of last year as "alarming and urgent". "Israeli forces have increasingly used military tactics and weapons in law enforcement operations," a statement from its spokesperson said in November. "Law enforcement is governed by international human rights law, which prohibits the intentional use of lethal force except when strictly necessary to protect life." Ibtesam Asous, the men's mother, said she had seen a change in the methods used by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the Hamas attacks on Israel on 7 October. "They are acting just as they used to," she said. "The only thing that changed is that, before, the army would shoot a guy in his leg. But now it's bigger - now they are bombing with rockets and killing as many people as they can." According to UN figures, last year was the bloodiest on record in the West Bank: 492 Palestinians were killed by Israeli forces - 300 of them since the Hamas attacks in October, including 80 children.

Amnesty International (igjen Vestbredden): Horrifying cases of torture and degrading treatment of Palestinian detainees amid spike in arbitrary arrests. Israeli authorities have dramatically increased their use of administrative detention, a form of arbitrary detention, of Palestinians across the occupied West Bank; extended emergency measures that facilitate inhuman and degrading treatment of prisoners; and failed to investigate incidents of torture and death in custody over the past four weeks.

Mondoweiss: The genocide in Gaza is one of the worst in modern history. Regardless of the final political, military, and demographic outcomes of the genocidal war waged by Israel on the Gaza Strip, Gaza will go down in history as the place that witnessed the largest number of massacres in history carried out almost entirely against civilians and through aerial bombardment.

The Intercept: Not even the Catholic Church in Gaza has been spared from Israel’s war crimes. On December 16, according to the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, Israeli snipers shot dead two Christian women taking shelter in the Holy Family church in Gaza, spurring Pope Francis to state bluntly that Israel is committing acts of terrorism.

Reliefweb: In press conference, Euro-Med confirms Israel's full involvement in Gaza flour massacre. The Human Rights Monitor confirmed that its initial investigations into the flour massacre at the “Nabulsi” roundabout southwest of Gaza City against Palestinian civilians who were attempting to receive humanitarian aid at dawn on Thursday confirm Israel’s full involvement in the crime, calling for an effective international investigation to hold Israeli officials accountable.

MSNBC: Sen. John Fetterman, a Pennsylvania Democrat, was one of the most prominent American politicians to recently defend Israel from concerns that it is causing mass civilian casualties in the Gaza Strip by saying that Israeli forces “are not targeting civilians. They never have, they never will.” Fetterman’s claim — a familiar one for anyone who follows the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — is meant to shield Israel from international condemnation and sanctions. But it’s a misleading one. There are many clear indications that Israel is denying the distinction between militants and civilians, allowing innocents to fall within the crosshairs as part of its bid to dismantle Hamas. […] Immediately there were signs that Israel viewed its military operation as not just an operation for self-defense, but for inflicting excruciating pain on Gazans. As Netanyahu vowed “mighty vengeance” that would be felt for “generations,” Israel’s defense minister announced a siege, cutting off food, water, fuel, electricity and medicine to the entire Gaza Strip as part of its bid to fight those he called “human animals.” As Israel began aerial bombardment, an IDF spokesman said that “the emphasis is on damage, and not on accuracy,” and Israel’s president insinuated that no Gazan had the rights of a civilian as he bellowed that “it is an entire nation out there that is responsible.”

Oxfam: Just 2 percent of usual food delivered to Gaza since siege imposed. Starvation is being used as a weapon of war against Gaza civilians, Oxfam said today.   “The situation is nothing short of horrific - where is humanity? Millions of civilians are being collectively punished in full view of the world, there can be no justification for using starvation as a weapon of war." “Every day the situation worsens. Children are experiencing severe trauma from the constant bombardment, their drinking water is polluted or rationed and soon families may not be able to feed them too. How much more are Gazans expected to endure?” 

WAFA: “The occupation’s bombing erased entire families from the civil registry, erased neighborhoods, and residential communities with their inhabitants.” The minister said that all aspects of life have been destroyed, including health, housing, water, sanitation, infrastructure, economy, agriculture, education, services, humanitarian institutions, and cutting off water, electricity, and fuel, and that the basic necessities of life have become unavailable and people’s lives are threatened either by bombing or the absence of health care or scarcity of water and food.

Haaretz: “Again, according to the most respected measure of these things, 100 percent of the population in Gaza is at severe levels of acute food insecurity. That’s the first time an entire population has been so classified.” Jeremy Konyndyk, a former USAID official who has strongly urged Biden to do more to combat the humanitarian crisis, warned that the term “looming” inadequately reflected the phase of the crisis. “There should be no confusion about whether it remains possible to ‘avert’ a famine at this point,” he tweeted on Tuesday. “That window has closed. Famine level mortality is starting to rise and has a lot of momentum. “This is now about containing the severity of the famine, not preventing it.”

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