Overview

• David Grossman said he had withheld the term genocide until evidence of mass starvation and indiscriminate bombing compelled him to act.
• His declaration aligns him with Israeli rights defenders, including B’Tselem and scholar Omer Bartov, who have also accused the Gaza campaign of genocide.
• The Palestinian health ministry reported 98 deaths and 1,079 injuries from Israeli strikes over the past 24 hours, bringing the death toll since October 2023 past 60,430.
• Gaza hospitals documented seven deaths from starvation in the last day, signaling a deepening humanitarian emergency under an Israeli blockade.
• Grossman maintained his loyalty to a two-state solution, calling it the only viable path toward resolving the conflict.