The charred bodies of civilians still lie along Jouls Street in Nuseirat camp, a brutal testament to one of Gaza’s most horrifying massacres. Al Jazeera’s footage captured dozens of corpses, many unrecognisable, sprawled across the road where families once walked. These are not battlefield casualties. These are the victims of a deliberate, sustained assault on a densely populated refugee camp, an act the Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor says amounts to a war crime, possibly genocide.

Ahmad Al-Shayeh, a Palestinian journalist who helped document the massacre, was killed by an Israeli airstrike hours after submitting his report. His assassination is part of a pattern: silence the witness, erase the evidence, deny the crime.

This was no accident, no tragic miscalculation. It was a calculated attack on a defenceless population, already starved, displaced, and under siege. The shells were fired knowing full well that civilians were everywhere. This is not the exception. It is the strategy.

The Euro-Med Monitor has demanded immediate international investigations and urged the International Criminal Court to treat the Nuseirat massacre as part of a wider genocidal campaign. They call for arrest warrants, asset freezes, and the end of all cooperation with a state accused of committing mass atrocities.

But Gaza’s dead do not need more statements. They need justice. And justice will not come until the world stops looking away.