By March 2024, the United Nations Security Council had adopted a cease‑fire resolution after six months of intensive bombardment that left over 90 percent of Gaza’s two‑million residents displaced and more than 92 percent of homes damaged or destroyed.
A Brown University report found that more journalists have been killed in Gaza than in the U.S. Civil War, both World Wars, the Korean War, Vietnam, the Yugoslav wars and the U.S. war in Afghanistan combined.
In January 2024, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s actions in Gaza were “plausible” grounds for genocide under the 1948 Genocide Convention and ordered provisional measures including a halt to genocidal acts and unrestricted humanitarian aid, a ruling the International Commission of Jurists says Israel has ignored.
May 2024 findings from a UN Commission of Inquiry documented numerous serious violations of international law by Israeli forces between October and December 2023, citing war crimes and crimes against humanity such as weaponising hunger, targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, murder, sexual violence, torture, arbitrary detention and forced transfers.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell warned in March 2024 that Gaza was no longer on the brink of famine but was already in a state of famine affecting thousands, accusing Israel of using starvation as a weapon of war.
In November 2024, the International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former officials, further intensifying international legal scrutiny of the conflict.