[We call on Israeli and Gaza authorities to cease all violations
of international law and release all civilian hostages and bodies. We
call on the international community to protect the Palestinian people
in Gaza from Israel’s brutal, illegal actions.]
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ADALAH’S STATEMENT FOLLOWING THE EXTREME VIOLENCE IN GAZA AND IN
ISRAEL  
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October 11, 2023
Adalah
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_ We call on Israeli and Gaza authorities to cease all violations of
international law and release all civilian hostages and bodies. We
call on the international community to protect the Palestinian people
in Gaza from Israel’s brutal, illegal actions. _

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Adalah calls on the international community to intervene immediately
to protect the lives of civilians in Gaza, most of whom are
Palestinian refugees, who are now subject to Israel’s ruthless
retaliatory actions.  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
clearly declared on 9 October 2023 that Israel “will exact a price
that will be remembered by them [Hamas] and Israel’s other enemies
for decades to come”. Yoav Gallant, Israel’s Defense Minister,
stated that, “We are imposing a complete siege on [Gaza]. No
electricity, no food, no water, no fuel – everything is closed.”
These announcements and the ensuing retaliatory actions indicate the
intent to commit war crimes against the civilian population in the
Gaza Strip. 

These acts, which violate international law, come after the
unprecedented, brutal and illegal attack by Hamas militants in Israel
against civilians. According to Israeli sources, more than 1,200
people were killed and 2,900 injured, most of whom were civilians, and
over 100 individuals (including children, women and the elderly) were
taken as hostages into Gaza. While the Palestinian people are entitled
to resist the Israeli brutal and prolonged occupation under
international law, the killing of civilians, the holding of civilian
hostages, and the holding bodies for any political purposes are
completely prohibited means and constitute war crimes. 

The root causes – the illegal 56-year-old Israeli military
occupation, the longest occupation in modern history; the killing of
tens of thousands of Palestinians; the blockade on Gaza; Israel’s
settler-colonial policies in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem;
and the denial of the inalienable right of the Palestinian people to
self-determination – as well as the total disregard by the
international community of its obligations to fulfil UN resolutions
– provide the context to these events. 

The extremist, racist Israeli government is using the attacks by
Palestinian militants as a pretext to launch illegal attacks and
commit war crimes toward ethnic cleansing against the Palestinian
people in Gaza. As of 11 October 2023, the death toll in Gaza has
risen to 950 people, most of whom are civilians, with over 5,000
individuals injured as a result of the ongoing Israeli attacks, and
over 185,000 Palestinians displaced in Gaza. Israeli forces
killed an additional 19 Palestinians, including one child, in the
West Bank. The dead, wounded and displaced of the last few days join
the tens of thousands of Palestinian victims of earlier Israeli
military offensives in Gaza, primarily airstrikes. The Israeli
military is also striking and destroying infrastructure, including
water and sewerage systems, cutting off electricity and humanitarian
supplies, and targeting medical facilities and personnel and
journalists, creating one of the cruelest humanitarian crises in the
world. 

We call on the Israeli and Gaza authorities to cease all violations of
international humanitarian law and to release all civilian hostages
and bodies. We call on the international community to protect the
Palestinian people in Gaza from Israel’s brutal and illegal actions,
to stop the inhumane blockade on Gaza, and to put an end to the
Israeli prolonged occupation, in order to uphold Palestinians’ right
to self-determination.   

_Adalah (“Justice” in Arabic) is an independent human rights
organization and legal center. It was founded in November 1996 as a
joint project of two leading Arab NGOs - The Galilee Society and the
Arab Association for Human Rights (HRA), and it became an independent
NGO in 1997._

_Adalah’s mission is to promote human rights in Israel in general
and the rights of the Palestinian minority, citizens of Israel, in
particular (around 1.5 million people, or 20% of the population). This
work also includes promoting and defending the human rights of all
individuals subject to the jurisdiction of the State of Israel (e.g.
Palestinian residents of the OPT). Adalah is the first Palestinian
Arab-run legal center in Israel, and the sole Palestinian organization
that works before Israeli courts to protect the human rights of
Palestinians in Israel and in the OPT._

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