December 18, 2024
HRW publishes the report, "Extermination and acts of genocide: Israel deliberately deprives Palestinians in Gaza of water"
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The report states that "Israeli policies have amounted to the intentional creation of conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the civilian population of Gaza. Israeli authorities were responsible for the deliberate destruction of water and sanitation infrastructure, the prevention of repairs to damaged water and sanitation infrastructure, and the cutting off or severe restrictions on water, electricity and fuel, which have likely caused thousands of deaths, that is, a mass killing, and will likely continue to cause deaths into the future. As a state policy, these acts constitute a widespread or systematic attack directed against a civilian population. Israeli officials are therefore committing the crime against humanity of extermination."