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Tribunal de Gaza condena el genocidio de Israel contra el pueblo de Palestina  

Ratifica el derecho del pueblo palestino a la autodeterminación y respalda las protestas, huelgas y manifestaciones de resistencia de Palestina contra la opresión sionista.

El Tribunal indicó que el genocidio trajo consigo la devastación de viviendas, la infraestructura básica, el empleo del hambre como un arma, los desplazamientos forzados y los asaltos sistemáticos a la salud y a la educación.

Después de cuatro días de audiencias públicas, el Tribunal de Gaza emitió este domingo su veredicto final en Estambul, Turquía, en el cual estableció que Israel lleva a cabo un genocidio contra el pueblo palestino a través del exterminio y la violencia sistemática, que solo desde el 7 de octubre de 2023 a la fecha dejó 68.519 civiles asesinados y 170.382 lesionados. 

La jurista británica Christine Chinkin, integrante del jurado, leyó la declaración que señaló a la «ideología supremacista del sionismo» como la raíz del conflicto y exige a la comunidad internacional actuar de inmediato para poner fin a los crímenes de la entidad sionista.

El jurado enfatizó que su dictamen se fundamentó en el derecho internacional, los tratados de derechos humanos y el Estatuto de Roma.  Por otra parte, indicó que el genocidio trajo consigo la devastación de viviendas, la infraestructura básica, el empleo del hambre como un arma, los desplazamientos forzados y los asaltos sistemáticos a la salud y a la educación.

Asimismo, denunció el reprocidio, domicidio, escolaricidio y ecocidio como herramientas de exterminio.  Tras pormenorizar los delitos cometidos por Israel, el tribunal recomendó que rindan cuentas los culpables, y exigió responsabilidad política, militar, económica e ideológica para todos los perpetradores y cómplices.

También instó a suspender a Israel de las organizaciones internacionales, especialmente de la ONU, y a activar el mecanismo “Uniting for Peace” para establecer una fuerza de protección en los territorios palestinos. 

El Tribunal culpó a los Gobiernos occidentales, en particular al de Estados Unidos, por haber sido cómplices al ofrecer al Estado sionista apoyo diplomático, armamento, inteligencia y capacitación militar. 

El Tribunal afirmó que “el silencio y la inacción frente al genocidio han sido otra forma de complicidad”.  De igual manera, indicó que bancos, universidades, empresas y medios de comunicación han respaldado la ofensiva israelí, creando lo que han llamado “la economía política del genocidio”.  

Richard Falk, jurista y presidente del Tribunal, quien fue relator especial de la ONU en derechos humanos para Palestina y es docente emérito de la Universidad de Princeton, subrayó que el genocidio también tiene sus raíces en más de un siglo de apartheid y colonialismo.  

El Tribunal ratificó el derecho del pueblo palestino a la autodeterminación y ha mostrado su apoyo a las protestas, huelgas y manifestaciones de resistencia de Palestina.  

Autor: teleSUR- egv - JDO  Fuente: Hispan TV, UN news

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Gaza Tribunal’s Final Verdict Declares Israel’s Actions Genocide, Calls for Global Action

By Romana Rubeo

October 26, 2025

The Gaza People’s Tribunal, an international civil society initiative composed of jurists, academics, and human rights advocates, has concluded that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

The announcement came on Sunday at Istanbul University, where the Tribunal delivered its final statement and moral judgment after four days of public hearings. The proceedings marked the culmination of a year-long process that began in London in November 2024 and continued in Sarajevo earlier this year.

The panel was chaired by Professor Christine Chinkin, an expert in international law, and presided over by Professor Richard Falk, former UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in the Palestinian Territories. Its jurors, drawn from multiple continents, examined testimony from witnesses, legal experts, and survivors.

According to the panel, the evidence presented across these sessions demonstrates a “coherent and consistent pattern of exterminatory violence” against Gaza’s civilian population, carried out through the deliberate destruction of life, infrastructure, and cultural identity.

The Palestine Chronicle has made the full version of the final verdict available, transcribed from the video published on the official Gaza Tribunal YouTube channel.

A Tribunal of Conscience

In its final statement, the jury said it did not speak with the authority of states but as moral witnesses in the face of international inaction. Guided by conscience and informed by international law, the jurors declared that “when law is silenced by power, conscience must become the final tribunal.”

They described the initiative as a civil-society response to the international community’s continuing failure to hold Israel accountable. “Genocide in Gaza is the concern of all humanity,” they said. “When states are silent, civil society must speak out.”

The Tribunal emphasized that it had gathered extensive documentation—eyewitness accounts, expert analyses, and legal papers—that now form a permanent archive of the truth of what it described as “the genocide against the Palestinian people.”

Beyond the Humanitarian Narrative

The jurors expressed solidarity with global acts of protest and civil resistance, including rallies, encampments, flotillas, and strikes, describing these efforts as expressions of conscience in a world where institutions have failed.

They rejected the framing of Gaza’s destruction as a mere humanitarian disaster, calling it instead “the deliberate commission of the gravest of crimes imposed with the direst of consequences.”

Throughout the hearings, the panel heard testimony not only about Israel’s crimes and the complicity of other states but also about “the courageous resistance and resilience of Palestinians and of global civil society.” The Tribunal said that such steadfastness—whether manifested in survival, community solidarity, or political organization—remains integral to the Palestinian struggle against genocide and dispossession.

Crimes of Genocide

The Tribunal concluded that Israel’s actions in Gaza constitute an ongoing genocide that neither began in October 2023 nor will end with the ceasefire. It warned that deaths and severe physical harm “will continue,” and that “the trauma of the surviving population will be transmitted through generations.”

The jury identified a series of specific crimes forming the structure of genocide. Among them are:

1/ Starvation and famine through the deliberate deprivation of food and the systematic destruction of Gaza’s food system;

2/ Domicide, or the annihilation of homes, communities, and cultural memory, leading to the disintegration of society;

3/ Ecocide, defined as the ruination of land, air, and water, and the destruction of Gaza’s environment and agricultural capacity;

4/ The systematic targeting of the health-care system—hospitals, clinics, and personnel—described as decades long and now almost total;

5/ Reprocide, the targeting of reproductive care and the prevention of births intended to eliminate future generations;

6/ Scholasticide, the destruction of knowledge through the killing and displacement of students and teachers and the obliteration of schools and universities;

7/ Attacks on journalists documenting the war;

8/ Torture, sexual violence, disappearances, and gender-based violence in detention and displacement;

9/ And politicide, the assassination and abduction of political, cultural, and civic leaders.

According to the statement, these acts together reveal “a coherent and consistent pattern of exterminatory violence” encompassing homes, hospitals, schools, cultural institutions, and natural ecosystems. “The weaponization of hunger, denial of medical care, and forced displacement,” it said, “are not collateral damages of war. They are instruments of collective punishment and of genocide.”

Complicity and Global Failure

The Tribunal found that Western governments—particularly the United States—are not only complicit but, in some cases, actively colluding in the genocide by providing weapons, intelligence, and diplomatic cover. Such actions, it said, amount to a breach of the legal duty to prevent genocide and to cooperate in ending violations of international law.

The jury also highlighted the role of non-state actors, naming media institutions, academic bodies, global corporations, and technology firms as participants in sustaining Israel’s campaign. Biased Western media reporting, it said, conforms to the political and economic interests of ruling elites. Universities, through investments and institutional silence, contribute to normalization, while staff and students who speak out for Palestine are punished.

Corporations and financial institutions maintain the “supply chains of genocide” through weapons production, banking, logistics, and digital infrastructure. The Tribunal described the technology sector as providing “the computer power for genocide,” enabling surveillance, targeting, and information control.

These interlocking systems, the jury concluded, form what it called “the political economy of genocide – the highest form of hyper-imperialism of the 21st century.”

The statement condemned the paralysis of the international system, particularly the United Nations Security Council, whose veto structure it said has “abdicated its foundational responsibility to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war.” The jury commended, however, the work of the UN Human Rights Council’s special procedures, including the Commission of Inquiry and the Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, Francesca Albanese, for affirming the reality of genocide despite political pressure.

Root Causes and Context

According to the Tribunal, the genocide in Gaza cannot be understood apart from the broader context of a century-long settler-colonial project. The jurors described it as “the latest stage of a system rooted in the ideology of Zionism – a racist and supremacist project aimed at dispossessing and erasing the Palestinian people, supported by a neocolonial power structure led by the United States and its allies.”

The Tribunal noted that the genocide is being carried out in a closed territory against a captive population using advanced technology and real-time surveillance. Despite Israel’s attempts to suppress documentation, the crimes are “highly visible in real time.”

It also observed that international judicial processes—such as the proceedings initiated by South Africa before the International Court of Justice and the investigations of the International Criminal Court—have been met with defiance and impunity. Instead of sanctioning Israel, the United States has targeted ICC personnel and NGOs assisting the court, further undermining the rule of law.

Right to Resistance and Self-Determination

The Gaza Tribunal reaffirmed the Palestinian people’s right to self-determination and to choose the tools of resistance against occupation and colonial domination. This right, it said, is enshrined in international law and central to any just political solution.

It called for Palestinian steadfastness and non-displacement and urged the creation of a single rights-based political order grounded in equality, decolonization, restitution, and the right of return. “The struggle is with Zionism as a racist, supremacist, settler-colonial enterprise,” the statement concluded, “not with Jews or Judaism.”

Recommendations

In its concluding section, the Tribunal issued a comprehensive set of recommendations to the international community.

It called for all those responsible for the genocide—politically, militarily, economically, and ideologically — to be held fully accountable by every lawful means and to the fullest extent of international law. Accountability, it said, must include those who enable or sustain the crimes through weapons transfers, diplomatic protection, or economic collaboration.

The Tribunal urged the suspension of Israel from international organizations and institutions, particularly the United Nations and its affiliates, until it complies with international obligations and ends the ongoing violations in Gaza.

It also called on the UN General Assembly to invoke Resolution 377, the Uniting for Peace mechanism, to mandate collective measures for the protection of Palestinians, including the establishment of an international protective force in Gaza and the West Bank.

Finally, the jury appealed for coordinated global action to dismantle the structures of impunity that perpetuate genocide and to challenge the political and economic systems that enable it.

The statement concluded with a warning that has echoed throughout the Tribunal’s year of hearings: “Silence is not neutral; silence is complicity; neutrality is surrender to evil.”

Speaking to Middle East Eye’s Mathilda Mallinson at Istanbul’s Gaza Tribunal, American comedian and writer Katie Halper explained why she, as a Jewish American, believes that the idea that anti-Zionism is antisemitic is, in itself, antisemitic, because it suggests that “all Jews support Israel.” “I can tell you that I, as a Jew, and lots of other Jews, don’t support a genocide. It’s not done in my name,” she added.

https://www.palestinechronicle.com/gaza-tribunal-finds-israel-guilty-of-genocide-urges-immediate-global-response/