According to the Young Journalists Club , Human Rights Watch confirmed in its annual report that the Israeli terrorist regime, with the complicity of the United States, committed war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and ethnic cleansing against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank throughout 2025, resulting in the deaths, injuries, and displacement of hundreds of thousands of people.
In its report, which monitored the human rights situation in more than 100 countries last year, the organization emphasized that the crimes of the Israeli terrorist regime in 2025 occurred on a scale “unprecedented in the modern history of Israel and Palestine.”
In the Gaza Strip, following the violation of the ceasefire by the Israeli terrorist regime’s army on March 18, 2025, which had been in place since the beginning of the year, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, the terrorist regime had martyred more than 13,500 Palestinians until last October, when the second ceasefire agreement came into effect.
Human Rights Watch stated in its 2026 annual report that the number of Palestinians martyred by the Israeli terrorist regime’s attacks last year was higher than the Gaza Health Ministry’s estimates, especially since the ministry’s statistics do not include those buried under rubble or those who died from disease, hunger, and thirst.
The report details a variety of crimes committed by the Israeli terrorist regime in the Gaza Strip over the past year, including an 11-month siege during which the occupying authorities prevented food aid from entering. This led to widespread famine in Gaza City and the surrounding areas, resulting in hundreds of deaths from starvation. According to Human Rights Watch, hundreds more died while waiting for aid at an organization known as the Gaza Humanitarian Organization (a Zionist-American organization).
Furthermore, Israeli authorities continued to deprive Gaza residents of sufficient electricity and water to survive over the past year. This led to the ongoing shutdown of water pumps, desalination plants, and sewage systems, in addition to preventing fuel from entering and attacking workers and related warehouses.
Human Rights Watch stated that the Israeli terrorist regime’s denial of access to water for Palestinians in Gaza constitutes a crime against humanity, specifically genocide, as it has led to a widespread health disaster among Palestinians living in overcrowded camps lacking basic necessities.
The organization stressed that the forced displacement of thousands of Gaza City residents by Israeli authorities last September, especially given Israel’s repeated orders to displace residents of the Gaza Strip during the months of war, constitutes a war crime and a crime against humanity.
Human Rights Watch considered the destruction of almost 80 percent of Gaza’s buildings, as well as the destruction of almost all schools in the Gaza Strip, by the Israeli army to be ethnic cleansing, as this action has rendered the Gaza Strip uninhabitable.
The organization noted that Israel’s deliberate targeting of journalists, doctors, and aid workers, as well as the bombing of medical facilities, hospitals, and ambulances, are all crimes that the occupiers continue to commit.
