End the Genocide in Gaza

For over two years, we’ve watched in devastation as tens of thousands of people have been killed, families ripped apart, hostages taken into captivity, and lives upended amid the ongoing violence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Amnesty continues to call for an arms embargo and an end to Israel’s genocide in Gaza.

We will continue to work to ensure that Israel lifts the unlawful blockade of Gaza, ends its illegal occupation, and dismantles its apartheid system over the Palestinian people.

• A temporary pause or reduction in the scale of attacks and allowing a trickle of humanitarian aid into Gaza is not enough to end Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip. For the genocide to end, all prohibited acts need to cease, including the killings and injuries of Palestinians and the deliberate infliction of the conditions of life calculated to bring about the physical destruction of the group.

• The flow of humanitarian aid must be restored, along with access to food and medicines, as well as the restoration of health facilities and sanitation services. Lifting the unlawful restrictions on freedom of movement, ceasing the practices and policies leading to forcible transfers of civilians and ending all forms of torture and other ill-treatment of Palestinian prisoners from Gaza are also essential steps towards ending the genocide.

• These developments need to be coupled with effective measures to address the expression of genocidal intent by Israeli officials and hold accountable those expressing such intent and those who are committing other serious violations of international law.

• It will be necessary to monitor the situation for some time in order to be able to determine that the mental and material elements of this crime under international law are no longer substantiated in Israel’s policies, acts and omissions in Gaza.

• Hamas and other armed groups have finally released the remaining living hostages ending the ordeal they have suffered for two years. Some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners and detainees have also been released, but many more Palestinians continue to be held by Israeli authorities without charge or trial as administrative detainees or unlawful combatants, particularly healthcare workers unjustly detained for caring for their patients, and they must also be released.

• AIUSA’s Advocacy Calls to the U.S. Government: AIUSA continues its demand for the U.S. government to immediately suspend the direct and indirect supply, sale, and transfer of all weapons and military equipment to Israel, and to halt all forms of military and security assistance. AIUSA also reiterates its calls on the U.S. government to take decisive action to ensure the ceasefire brings a full cessation of hostilities and a total lifting of the unlawful blockade on Gaza to allow the unhindered flow of livesaving supplies.