Overview

• David Grossman publicly adopts the genocide label for Israel’s Gaza campaign after previously refusing to use the term
• B’Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights Israel classify the Gaza campaign as genocide under Article II of the 1948 Convention, following assessments by historian Omer Bartov and UN rapporteur Francesca Albanese
• Gaza health officials report at least 60,000 Palestinian civilians killed since October 2023, underscoring claims of targeted destruction
• Rights advocates highlight Israel’s armed oversight of food deliveries as a deliberate starvation strategy in violation of international law
• Defense Secretary Israel Katz orders planning for a 600,000-person camp near the Egyptian border even as the Knesset votes 71-13 on a nonbinding West Bank annexation resolution