SAEDNEWS: The Israeli-Palestinian human rights group B’Tselem has officially described the Zionist regime’s criminal actions in Gaza as genocide, reinforcing long-standing accusations from across the Global South regarding Tel Aviv’s systematic extermination of Palestinians.
In its latest report titled Our Genocide, B’Tselem concludes that Israel is “intentionally destroying Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,” describing the ongoing military assault as a coordinated campaign of annihilation.
The report, released Monday, highlights the regime’s brutal war on Gaza, which has killed at least 59,733 Palestinians and wounded over 144,000.
“An examination of Israel’s policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip,” the report states.
“In other words: Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.”
The report also references the October 7, 2023 events in which approximately 1,139 Israelis were killed, and around 200 taken captive—an incident that Tel Aviv has exploited to justify months of indiscriminate bombardment and ethnic cleansing.
B’Tselem’s 79-page document details Israel’s settler-colonial framework, citing the establishment of the Zionist entity in 1948 as the starting point of policies aimed at securing Jewish supremacy across occupied Palestine.
The group notes that these colonial mechanisms include mass displacement, demographic engineering, ethnic cleansing, and the enforcement of military rule on Palestinian civilians.
Since October 2023, the Israeli regime has accelerated its aggression, with the report describing “a broad, coordinated onslaught against Palestinians in Gaza” that has been normalized and supported by most of Israeli society, its judiciary, and political class.
The report condemns the forced displacement of Palestinians in northern Gaza, as ethnic cleansing. By November 2024, it notes, approximately 100,000 people had been driven from their homes.
B’Tselem expands the scope of its condemnation beyond Gaza, pointing to escalated Israeli military operations in the occupied West Bank and East Al-Quds—violence not witnessed since the early days of the occupation in 1967.
The term "apartheid" was officially adopted by B’Tselem in 2021 to describe the Zionist regime’s systemic discrimination across historic Palestine.
B’Tselem’s findings echo the words of Amos Goldberg, a Holocaust scholar who recently wrote in The New York Times that Israel’s conduct in Gaza amounts to genocide.
Even within Israeli society, voices like political commentator Ori Goldberg have condemned mainstream Zionist attitudes as “vile,” exposing a collapsing moral fabric.
“There is a deep moral rot at the core of their political culture,” said Elia Ayoub, founder of The Fire These Times, speaking to Al Jazeera.
“Israeli society has normalized a genocide for nearly two years,” he added.
The report includes disturbing statements by senior Israeli officials such as heritage minister Amichai Eliyahu, who declared, “All of Gaza will be Jewish,” and praised the ongoing destruction of the territory.
B’Tselem’s decision to name Israel’s actions as genocide is considered significant—even if delayed.
“I welcome this news even though it comes very late into the genocide,” Ayoub stated.
In December 2023, South Africa filed a genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice (ICJ), joined since by countries including Brazil, Turkey, Spain, and Ireland—underscoring the growing global backlash against the Zionist regime’s crimes in Gaza.
