Amnesty International has issued a stark warning that the world is witnessing genocide in Gaza in real time. In the foreword to its latest annual report, Secretary General Agnès Callamard described the Israeli military campaign as a systematic extermination of Palestinians, carried out under the watch of a global community paralysed by silence or complicity.

Since 7 October 2023, tens of thousands of civilians—mostly women, children, and the elderly—have been killed or maimed in Gaza. Amnesty affirms that entire families have been wiped out, hospitals reduced to rubble, and schools turned to graves. According to the Palestinian Ministry of Health, over 52,000 people have been killed, with more than 117,000 injured. These numbers reflect not the chaos of war, but the deliberate consequences of a policy of destruction.

Callamard also denounced the growing pressure on international institutions, including attacks against the International Criminal Court following its interventions against Israeli actions. She stressed that governments must stand firm in defence of international justice and hold those responsible to account, warning that failure to do so will only fuel global lawlessness.

Yet despite mounting evidence and legal rulings, Gaza remains sealed off, its people besieged, and its cries unanswered. The siege has become a death sentence, and still the bombs fall. Every child buried beneath the rubble is a question to the world: how much longer will silence serve as consent?