Overview

• The resolution passed with support from about 86% of participating voters in the roughly 500-member association founded in 1994.
• It concludes that Israel’s policies meet the Genocide Convention’s legal definition and urges an immediate halt to acts including starvation, blocked humanitarian aid, attacks on civilians, and forced displacement.
• The group cites the ICJ’s earlier finding that genocide is plausible and calls for adherence to its orders, while urging states to cooperate with ICC processes, noting the resolution carries no binding legal force.
• Israel’s Foreign Ministry rejected the finding as a “shame for the profession” and said it relied on “Hamas’s campaign of lies,” according to spokesperson Oren Marmorstein.
• Hamas welcomed the move as validation and pressed for urgent international action, as Gaza health authorities report more than 63,000 Palestinians killed and widespread displacement.