Kerusakan atau penghancuran sekitar 80% rumah dan 50% bangunan di Gaza[7][8][c]
20% dari populasi menghadapi "tingkat kerawanan pangan akut yang sangat parah" yang melibatkan "kekurangan pangan yang ekstrem, kelaparan, dan kelelahan"[11]
Pada bulan Juni 2024, Kantor Hak Asasi Manusia PBB mengutuk pembunuhan yang dilaporkan terhadap 500 pekerja kesehatan.[29] Pada bulan Agustus 2024, hanya 17 dari 36 rumah sakit di Gaza yang berfungsi sebagian;[30] 84% pusat kesehatan di wilayah tersebut telah hancur atau mengalami kerusakan.[31]Blokade Israel yang diberlakukan sangat berkontribusi terhadap kelaparan dan ancaman bencana kelaparan di Jalur Gaza, sementara pasukan Israel mencegah pasokan kemanusiaan mencapai penduduk Palestina, memblokir atau menyerang konvoi kemanusiaan. Pada awal konflik, Israel memutus pasokan air dan listrik dari Jalur Gaza. Israel juga telah menghancurkan banyak bangunan penting secara budaya, termasuk 13 perpustakaan,[32][33] semua dari 12 universitas di Gaza dan 80% sekolahnya,[34][35] puluhan masjid, tiga gereja, dan dua museum.[36][37][38] Pada pertengahan Agustus 2024, setelah sembilan bulan serangan, aksi militer Israel telah mengakibatkan lebih dari 40.000 kematian warga Palestina yang dikonfirmasi—1 dari setiap 59 orang di Gaza—dengan rata-rata 148 kematian per hari. Sebagian besar korban adalah warga sipil,[39][40] di antaranya setidaknya 50% adalah perempuan dan anak-anak,[41][42] dan lebih dari 100 wartawan.[43][44][45] Ribuan mayat lainnya diperkirakan berada di bawah reruntuhan bangunan yang hancur.[40][46]
Pemerintah Afrika Selatan telah melembagakan proses hukum, Afrika Selatan v. Israel, terhadap Israel di Mahkamah Internasional (ICJ), dengan tuduhan pelanggaran Konvensi Genosida.[47] Dalam putusan awal, ICJ memutuskan bahwa Afrika Selatan berhak untuk mengajukan kasusnya terhadap Israel, sementara Palestina diakui memiliki "hak yang masuk akal untuk dilindungi dari genosida"[48] yang menghadapi risiko nyata kerusakan yang tidak dapat diperbaiki. Pengadilan memerintahkan Israel untuk mematuhi kewajibannya berdasarkan Konvensi Genosida dengan mengambil semua tindakan dalam kewenangannya untuk mencegah terjadinya tindakan genosida, untuk mencegah dan menghukum hasutan untuk genosida, dan untuk mengizinkan layanan kemanusiaan dasar ke Gaza.[49][50][51] Pengadilan juga kemudian memerintahkan Israel untuk meningkatkan bantuan kemanusiaan ke Gaza dan untuk mencegah tindakan genosida selama serangan Rafah.[52][53] Pemerintah Israel menolak tuduhan Afrika Selatan,[51] dan menuduh pengadilan bersikap antisemit, yang sering dilakukannya ketika dikritik.[54][55]
^Per the Gaza Health Ministry and Government Information Office,[1] which has previously been deemed reliable by prominent and independent organisations.[2][3] In the same period at least 700 Palestinians were killed in the West Bank.[1]
^Using methods described in The Lancet, Devi Sridhar, the chair of global health at the University of Edinburgh, wrote in a September 2024 editorial that "the total deaths since the conflict began would be estimated at about 335,500 in total".[5]
^Huynh, Benjamin Q.; Chin, Elizabeth T.; Spiegel, Paul B. (6 December 2023). "No evidence of inflated mortality reporting from the Gaza Ministry of Health". The Lancet. 403 (10421): 23–24. doi:10.1016/S0140-6736(23)02713-7. PMID38070526Periksa nilai |pmid= (bantuan).
^Abraham, Yuval (3 April 2024). "'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing spree in Gaza". +972 Magazine (dalam bahasa Inggris). Diakses tanggal 3 July 2024. "There was a completely permissive policy regarding the casualties of [bombing] operations — so permissive that in my opinion it had an element of revenge," D., an intelligence source, claimed. … A. also used the word "revenge" to describe the atmosphere inside the army after October 7.
^"On the Dehumanization of the Palestinians". palestine-studies.com. Institute for Palestine Studies. Diakses tanggal 3 July 2024. The current genocidal assaults on Palestinians in the Gaza strip have undoubtedly been enabled by decades of anti-Palestinian racism propagated by both government and military officials and by media outlets. ... This has never been clearer than over the course of the last two weeks as U.S. and Israeli political and military leaders sow fear and paranoia, and trot out the worst anti-Arab rhetoric we have seen since the period following 9/11. This racist rhetoric is intended to dehumanize the Palestinians in order to neutralize public outrage at what may amount to the worst ethnic cleansing since the 1948 Nakba and what constitutes a genocide at the hands of one of the most advanced militaries in the world, all while world powers watch and do nothing.
^ ab"Gaza: UN experts call on international community to prevent genocide against the Palestinian people". OHCHR. 16 November 2023. Diarsipkan dari versi asli tanggal 24 December 2023. Diakses tanggal 22 December 2023. Grave violations committed by Israel against Palestinians in the aftermath of 7 October, particularly in Gaza, point to a genocide in the making, UN experts said today. They illustrated evidence of increasing genocidal incitement, overt intent to "destroy the Palestinian people under occupation", loud calls for a 'second Nakba' in Gaza and the rest of the occupied Palestinian territory, and the use of powerful weaponry with inherently indiscriminate impacts, resulting in a colossal death toll and destruction of life-sustaining infrastructure.
^Donoghue 2024, 5:10 ("The court decided that the Palestinians had a plausible right to be protected from genocide, and that South Africa had the right to present that claim in the court."); Order, S. Afr.
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