A damning report from a United Nations human rights expert has presented a stark indictment of the international response to the ongoing war in Gaza. The document, entitled "The Genocide in Gaza: A Collective Crime," contends that the widespread destruction and loss of Palestinian life has been enabled through the direct and indirect support of more than sixty governments. It argues that without sustained military, diplomatic, and economic assistance from third-party states, the scale of the current violence would not have been possible.
The report identifies four key sectors of international support, diplomatic, military, economic, and what it terms 'humanitarian', that have collectively sustained the offensive. It states that consistent diplomatic initiatives have failed to secure a lasting ceasefire, instead normalising the prevailing conditions. Furthermore, it highlights that large-scale arms transfers and military cooperation, primarily from Western nations, have provided the means to dominate the Palestinian population and dismantle essential humanitarian infrastructure.
In its conclusions, the report draws parallels with historical international measures against apartheid and colonial regimes, insisting that the same legal and moral obligations to enforce justice and self-determination apply today. It characterises the failure to hold Israel accountable for its actions, despite clear rulings from international courts, as a glaring double standard that has effectively legitimised the violence and deepened the humanitarian catastrophe.
