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For a list of non-governmental humanitarian groups accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, see List of humanitarian groups accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza.

Positions of national governments on whether Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza war
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Since October 2023, the government of Israel has been accused of committing genocide against the Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip by several countries across the world. The government of South Africa formally accused the country of genocide in December that year in a case before the International Court of Justice, with 14 countries joining on the side of South Africa by December the next year.[1] Explicit state positions on the genocide include recognition, denial, or deferral to the ultimate result of the pending case. Some countries have been described as silent regarding the matter.

Explicit statements by national governments

Country positions on recognition of genocide
Country Recognition of genocide Statement(s) References
Afghanistan Yes The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Taliban condemned Israel's actions as genocide. [2][3]
Algeria Yes In a speech before the UN General Assembly, President Abdelmadjid Tebboune asked "[W]here is the global conscience that has become absent regarding the genocide being committed?" [4][‡ 1]
Angola Yes In his address to the 79th Session of the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2024, President João Lourenço called on Israel to do "everything it can to prevent the genocide that the world is witnessing live in the Gaza Strip." In his address to the 80th Session of the Assembly in September 2025, Lourenço condemned the decision of the United States to deny visas to Mahmoud Abbas, the President of the Palestinian Authority, and his delegation ahead of the Session, stating that the decision "encourages the continuation of the genocide to which we all bear witness." Lourenço further commented that Israel "cannot be allowed to pursue in Palestine – and particularly in Gaza – a policy of extermination of a people." [6][7]
Antigua and Barbuda Yes Prime Minister Gaston Browne stated in September 2025 that "we condemn the forced removal of people in Gaza from their homeland and the genocide that has occurred there". [8]
Australia Forthcoming Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong said that "Israel will be judged in the international courts" and that "the position we've always taken as a country is that questions relating to genocide are matters where we respect the independence of international courts and tribunals and their role in upholding international law". [9]
Austria Forthcoming Foreign minister Beate Meinl-Reisinger said in July 2025 that she "think[s] one should be very careful with the term 'genocide' and it will ultimately be the [International Court of Justice] that has to judge it". [10]
Bahrain Yes — [‡ 1]
Bangladesh Yes Bangladesh backed South Africa's genocide case against Israel. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs strongly condemned the Israeli bombardments on Gaza Strip for "ethnic cleansing" of Palestinians and urged the international community to take immediate and effective step to implement an unconditional ceasefire, protect the lives of civilians, and deliver humanitarian aid; it also affirmed its support for Palestinian self-determination and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state on the basis of the pre-1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital. [11][12][‡ 1]
Barbados Yes In her address to the UN General Assembly in September 2025, Prime Minister Mia Mottley drew attention to "[t]he genocidal destruction taking place in Gaza." [13]
Belgium Forthcoming Belgium has vowed to support the verdict of the ICJ in South Africa v. Israel. Foreign Minister Maxime Prévot said, "As the foreign minister, it is not up to me to make such statements. But my personal opinion is that this is very close to genocide. I don't know what other horrors have yet to occur before that word can be used." Prime Minister Bart De Wever said that the claim of genocide was "something for the International Court of Justice to determine". [14]
Belize Yes On 22 October 2023, Prime Minister John Briceño accused the Israeli government of "committing genocide against the Palestinian people." On 31 January 2025, Belize submitted a request to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. [15][16]
Bolivia Yes President Luis Arce posted on X that he agreed with President Lula of Brazil (see below) concerning "the truth about the genocide that is being committed against the brave Palestinian people". On 8 October 2024, Bolivia submitted a request to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. [17][18]
Bosnia and Herzegovina Yes In a meeting in September 2025 with Chaloka Beyani, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General for the Prevention of Genocide, Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina Željko Komšić commented that, although many believed the crime of genocide would never be committed again after the Holocaust, "genocide was committed in Bosnia and Herzegovina and, unfortunately, today we are witnessing its repetition in Gaza." In his address to the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2025, Komšić further condemned the genocide of the Palestinian people and the inaction of the international community in face of it. [19][20]
Brazil Yes President Lula da Silva condemned Israel's actions as genocide, saying: "What's happening in the Gaza Strip with the Palestinian people hasn't happened at any other moment in history. Actually, it has happened: when Hitler decided to kill the Jews." In June 2025, he accused Israel of carrying out "premediated genocide" in Gaza. On 14 July 2025, it was announced that Brazil would join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. [21][22]
Brunei Yes Minister of Foreign Affairs II Erywan Yusof said in September 2025 that, although humanity vowed to say "never again to genocide" in the aftermath of World War II and the Holocaust, Israel's warfare on Gaza consists of "actions that betray that vow." [23]
Canada Forthcoming Prime Minister Mark Carney seemingly agreed with a protester who said there was "a genocide happening in Palestine", but later said he had misheard the question. Former Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Minister Melanie Joly neither endorsed nor rejected South Africa's case against Israel. Joly said she would watch the case "very closely" and Global Affairs Canada promised to abide by any decision the court reaches. [24][25]
Chad Yes — [‡ 1]
Chile Yes President Gabriel Boric has condemned both Hamas and Israel's actions in Gaza, saying he refuses to choose between "the terrorism of Hamas and the genocide that Israel is carrying out in Palestine". On 12 October 2024, Chile submitted a request to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. [26][27][28]
China Yes In the State Council Information Office's "Report on Human Rights Violations in the United States in 2024", Israel was accused of committing genocide in Gaza with the complicity of the United States. [29]
Colombia Yes President Gustavo Petro posted on X in Spanish: "It's called genocide, they do it to remove the Palestinian people from Gaza and take it over. The head of the state who carries out this genocide is a criminal against humanity. Their allies cannot talk about democracy." In his address to the UN General Assembly in September 2025, Petro said of US President Donald Trump that "by allowing the launching of missiles against young children, women, and the elderly in Gaza, he makes himself an accomplice in the genocide, because it is genocide, and we must shout it out again and again." [30][31][32]
Comoros Yes In his address to the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2025, President Azali Assoumani described the Israeli response to the October 7 attacks as "amount[ing] to a genocide", which he acknowledged was "rightly described" by experts. [33][‡ 1]
Cuba Yes On 11 January 2024 the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed support for South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ, and on 31 March 2024, president Miguel Diaz-Canel stated that "Cuba demands that the genocide stop now." On 22 June 2024, Cuba announced it would join South Africa's case at the ICJ. [34][35][36]
Czech Republic No Foreign minister Jan Lipavský rejected the genocide accusation. [37]
Denmark Forthcoming Foreign minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen refrained from accusing Israel of genocide in Gaza, saying that it was a matter for courts to decide. [38]
Djibouti Yes President Ismaïl Omar Guelleh said that Palestinians were being subjected to genocide during the war. [39][‡ 1]
Egypt Yes Egypt registered to formally support South Africa's case, following Israel's seizure of the Rafah Border Crossing. In August 2025, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi accused Israel of carrying out a "systematic genocide" in Gaza. [40][41][42][‡ 1]
Finland Forthcoming In an interview in May 2025, Foreign Minister Elina Valtonen conceded that Israel's actions in Gaza couldn't be anything other than genocide. When asked why the Finnish government doesn't say so officially, Valtonen responded that they would leave the final judgments to the ICJ. [43]
France Forthcoming In January 2024, Foreign Minister Stéphane Séjourné said that accusing Israel of genocide is "to cross a moral threshold", casting doubt on whether France would accept the ICJ's verdict in South Africa v. Israel. In an interview in July 2025, Séjourné's successor Jean-Noël Barrot responded to a direct question on France's position on whether a genocide is happening in Gaza by stating that the government "has no position to take on the legal description of the facts," and that it is "up to the international courts" to do so. [44][45]
The Gambia Yes — [‡ 1]
Germany No In January 2024, then-Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said that she could not see genocidal intent in "Israel’s self-defence against […] Hamas." During a visit to Jerusalem the same month, then-Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck stated his opinion that, while it is possible to criticize the Israeli army for "acting too harshly" in Gaza, "that does not constitute genocide." In September 2025, Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that, while he does not view Israel's actions in Gaza as proportionate to their stated goals, neither does he view those actions as amounting to genocide. Furthermore, Germany has rejected the genocide charges brought against Israel by South Africa at the ICJ. [46][47]
Ghana Yes In a televised interview in September 2025, Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa commented that his government agrees with the conclusion of the UNHRC Commission of Inquiry that Israel is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip. [48]
Greece No In an interview on 17 September 2025, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said that a major humanitarian disaster is unfolding in Gaza, but he considers the term "genocide" to be heavy. [49]
Guyana Yes President Irfaan Ali described Israel's actions as "nothing short of genocide" in April 2024. [50]
Holy See Unclear In November 2023, several witnesses to a speech by Pope Francis said that he called Israel's actions a genocide, but a Vatican spokesman denied this. Francis later called for an investigation "to determine whether it fits into the technical definition [of genocide] formulated by jurists and international bodies". His successor Pope Leo XIV said in July 2025 that "[o]fficially, the Holy See does not believe that we can make any declaration at this time about that", but acknowledged that "more and more people are raising the issue". [51][52][53]
Honduras Yes In a speech before the UN General Assembly on 25 September 2024, President Xiomara Castro called for "an end to the genocide in Gaza". [54]
Hungary No Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó described the genocide accusation as "nonsense". [55]
Iceland Forthcoming Minister of Foreign Affairs Þorgerður Katrín Gunnarsdóttir stated in September 2025 that the Icelandic government was considering joining South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ, and that a decision would come in October of that year. Concerning the situation in Gaza, she said her view was that "there is clearly ethnic cleansing taking place" and that "this bears all the hallmarks of genocide," but that ultimately "it is for the International Court of Justice to decide this." [56]
Indonesia Yes Speaking before the UN General Assembly on 23 September 2024, then-Foreign Minister Retno Marsudi said that "the ongoing genocide by Israel must be stopped immediately". [57][‡ 1]
Iran Yes Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and then-Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian condemned Israel's actions as genocide in October 2023. During a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in December 2023, then-President Ebrahim Raisi described the war in Gaza as "genocide and a crime against humanity" and accused Western countries of supporting Israel's actions. [58][59][60]
Iraq Yes On 8 May 2024, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani said that Israel's war in Gaza is tantamount to genocide. [61][‡ 1]
Ireland Yes On 7 November 2024, the Dáil Éireann passed a non-binding motion stating that "genocide is being perpetrated before our eyes by Israel in Gaza". On 11 December, Ireland announced that it was joining South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ; a request to join the case was submitted on 6 January 2025. During a debate in the Dáil Éireann in May 2025, Tánaiste and Foreign Minister Simon Harris spoke of "the genocidal activity of the Netanyahu government" in Gaza. On 16 September 2025, President Michael D. Higgins called for the "exclusion [from the United Nations] of those who are practising genocide, and those who are supporting genocide with armaments". In his address to the United Nations General Assembly on 26 September, Taoiseach Micheál Martin urged those providing means necessary for Israel to continue its war to "reflect carefully on the implications of their actions and the consequences for the Palestinian people," adding that "[t]here cannot be business as usual in the face of genocide." [62][63][64][65][66][67]
Italy No In an interview on 11 January 2024, Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said that, while Israel has targeted civilians during the war in Gaza, "genocide is something else". [68]
Jordan Yes Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said that Israel's actions met the legal definition of genocide. [69][‡ 1]
Kuwait Yes — [‡ 1]
Kyrgyzstan Yes On 18 March 2024, Deputy Prime Minister Edil Baisalov called on Israel and the U.S. to stop the "madness and the genocide" in Gaza. [70]
Lebanon Yes Then-Prime Minister Najib Mikati expressed concern "with the ongoing genocide against the Palestinians". [71][better source needed][‡ 1]
Libya Yes In May 2024, Libya filed a declaration of intervention in South Africa's genocide case against Israel as it believes that Israel is committing genocide. [72][‡ 1]
Luxembourg Forthcoming In January 2024, Foreign Minister Xavier Bettel rejected calls from members of the Chamber of Deputies to evaluate supporting South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ, saying the country would remain neutral and wait for the results of the proceedings in the case. [73]
Malaysia Yes Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim condemned Israel's actions as genocide and associated the United States as being complicit. [74]
Maldives Yes On 24 September 2024, President Mohamed Muizzu said before the UN General Assembly that "the genocide by Israel in Gaza is a travesty of justice and the international system". [75][‡ 1]
Malta Unclear In January 2024, Prime Minister Robert Abela refrained from stating whether the Maltese government considers Israel's warfare in Gaza to be genocide, but said: "You have more than 20,000 innocent people who lost their lives. I will leave it up to people to arrive at that conclusion on whether this is genocide." [76]
Mauritania Yes The government of Mauritania condemned Israel's actions and called on the international community to "impose an immediate cessation of the genocide to which the Palestinian people are subjected". [77][‡ 1]
Mexico Yes On 22 September 2025, President Claudia Sheinbaum referred to Israel's action in Gaza as genocide during a press conference about the country's recognition of the State of Palestine. [78][79]
Morocco Yes — [‡ 1]
Namibia Yes In January 2024, then-President Hage Geingob called Israel's actions in Gaza "genocidal and gruesome" and sharply criticised Germany's decision to back Israel in South Africa v. Israel, saying that Germany had an "inability to draw lessons from its horrific history", including the Herero and Nama Genocide in German Southwest Africa. Addressing the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2025, President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah reiterated her predecessor's stance, stating that, "indeed, a genocide is being committed against the Palestinian people." [80][81]
Netherlands Forthcoming Dutch Foreign Minister David van Weel said that the Netherlands would not support the UN report that described the situation in the Gaza Strip as genocide and would instead wait for the ICJ's decision. [82][83]
New Zealand Forthcoming Foreign Minister Winston Peters said: "We're interested in what the international courts might say, and that's what we would wait for." [84]
Nicaragua Yes Nicaragua has condemned Israel's accusations as genocide and accused Germany of complicity by exchanging weapons to Israel. In October 2024, Nicaragua severed diplomatic ties with Israel after its invasion of Lebanon, calling the Israeli government "fascist" and "genocidal", and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu "the son of the Devil". On 8 February 2024, Nicaragua submitted a request to join the ICJ's case against Israel at the ICJ, but withdrew the request on 3 April 2025. [85][86][87][88][89]
Niger Yes In an address to the UN General Assembly in September 2025, Prime Minister Ali Lamine Zeine said that "the Nigerien people unreservedly condemn the Israeli genocide in Gaza and give their strongest support to the creation of a sovereign Palestinian state." [90]
Nigeria Yes — [‡ 1]
North Korea Yes A Foreign Ministry spokesman said a bombing of a hospital during the war in October 2023 "show[ed] that the U.S. is an accomplice who connived at and fostered Israel's genocide". [91]
Norway Forthcoming On 2 September 2024, Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide said, "We welcome the use of the ICJ, but leave to the court to assess whether the accusation of genocide is correct." [92]
Oman Yes The Foreign Ministry condemned Israel's actions as genocide in May 2024. [93][‡ 1]
Pakistan Yes In October 2023, then-Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas Jilani condemned Israel's airstrikes on Gaza and siege of the territory as genocide. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said in September 2025 that "Israel's genocidal onslaught [in Gaza] has unleashed unspeakable terror upon women and children in a manner we have not witnessed in decades, perhaps ever". [94][95][‡ 1]
Palestine Yes Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour said Israel's bombardment and siege of Gaza were "nothing less than genocidal" in a letter sent on 10 October 2023. President Mahmoud Abbas condemned Israel's actions as genocide in November 2023. [96][97][‡ 1]
Paraguay No In a statement on 10 January 2024, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs rejected the accusations of genocide presented against Israel at the ICJ. [98]
Poland No In October 2024, Polish then-chargé d'affaires (later ambassador) to Israel Maciej Hunia rejected the accusation of genocide against Israel, saying he was "absolutely sure" the Israeli army was not planning operations to kill innocent people, and explaining the civilian deaths in Gaza as "collateral damage." In an interview with Polskie Radio in September 2025, Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski echoed a similar stance, stating that while he viewed the "catastrophic number" of civilian deaths in Gaza as a "terrible tragedy," it did not in his view meet the definition of genocide. [99][100]
Portugal No In an interview with El País in May 2024, Foreign Minister Paulo Rangel rejected the genocide accusation, saying it would be "very unfair" to say Israel intends to eliminate the Palestinian people, while maintaining that "there is a humanitarian catastrophe [in Gaza] that demands condemnation" and calling for a ceasefire. [101]
Qatar Yes The Ministry of Foreign Affairs called on the UN Security Council "to take urgent action to prevent the Israeli occupation forces from storming Rafah and committing genocide" there. Qatari emir Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani said Israel had committed "a crime of genocide". [102][103][‡ 1]
Russia Unclear In an interview in October 2025, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov acknowledged that "[w]e hear officials from many European capitals and international organisations say words like 'genocide' and 'famine'" regarding the situation in Gaza. However, Lavrov did not mention whether the Russian government agrees with such descriptions. [104]
Saint Lucia Yes Minister of External Affairs Alva Baptiste condemned "the undeniable genocide that is being committed against the people of Palestine, especially in Gaza" during a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in September 2025. [105]
Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Yes On 11 January 2024, the Prime Minister's office released a statement of support for South Africa's case against Israel at the ICJ, calling on the court to adopt provisional measures to "prevent any further acts of genocide against the Palestinian people". The statement also called on other countries to stop providing material support to Israel, accusing those who continue to do so of being "complicit in genocide before our very eyes". [106]
Saudi Arabia Yes The Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the "continued genocidal massacres against the Palestinian people at the hands of the Israeli war machine". [107][‡ 1]
Senegal Yes Prime Minister Ousmane Sonko condemned Israel's actions as genocide and accused other countries of complicity. [108][‡ 1]
Sierra Leone Yes In his address to the 80th Session of the UN General Assembly on 24 September 2025, President Julius Maada Bio criticized the "paralysis" of the UN Security Council in face of the human suffering in Gaza, stating that "[a] preventable genocide was not prevented." [109][‡ 1]
Singapore Forthcoming In a statement published on 22 September 2025, Minister of Foreign Affairs Vivian Balakrishnan and Senior Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Sim Ann noted the report of the UNHRC Commission of Inquiry concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The ministers acknowledged that the matter was being investigated by the ICJ, which they referred to as "the appropriate forum to adjudicate such grave concerns." [110]
Slovenia Yes In an address to the European Parliament on 21 May 2025, President Nataša Pirc Musar said: "We are witnessing genocide in the West Bank. We are looking and keeping quiet." She later clarified that she meant Gaza, not the West Bank. [111][112]
Somalia Yes The Ministry of Foreign Affairs urged "swift action to halt [the] Gaza genocide by Israel". [113][‡ 1]
South Africa Yes South Africa formally accused Israel of genocide during the Gaza war in a case before the International Court of Justice in December 2023. President Cyril Ramaphosa said, "The fact that Palestinian deaths are not solely caused by bombardment and ground attacks, but also by disease and starvation, indicates a need to protect the group's right to exist". [114][115]
Spain Yes In May 2025, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called Israel a "genocidal state." Several government ministers have also publicly called Israel's warfare in Gaza genocide, including Second Deputy Prime Minister Yolanda Díaz, Defence Minister Margarita Robles, Youth Minister Sira Rego, and former Social Affairs Minister Ione Belarra. Foreign Minister José Manuel Albares previously said, "Whether this is genocide or not, that is for the [World] court to decide, and Spain of course will support its decision." On 6 June 2024, Spain submitted a request for joining South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. [116][117][118][119][120]
Sudan Yes — [‡ 1]
Sweden Forthcoming Reacting to a resolution by the International Association of Genocide Scholars concluding that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard commented in September 2025 that, while the information in the resolution is "very serious," the Swedish government would "await the assessments from an international court before we establish that it is a matter of genocide." [121][122]
Syria (before 2024) Yes Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad condemned Israel's actions as genocide in October 2023. During a speech to an Arab–Islamic extraordinary summit in November 2024, then-President Bashar al-Assad described Israel's actions as "massacres, genocide and ethnic cleansing". [123][124]
Syria (after 2024) Yes — [‡ 1]
Timor-Leste Yes Foreign Minister Bendito Freitas urged the international community to "waste no more time on terminology" regarding "the situation of famine and genocide" in Gaza. [125]
Tunisia Yes According to Wafa, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs demanded an end to Israel's "war of genocide" in May 2024. [126]
Turkey Yes President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan condemned Israel's actions as "amounting to genocide". On 9 February 2024, Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan said that the international community's silence on Israel's actions in Gaza were "complicity in genocide". On 7 August 2024, Turkey submitted a request to join South Africa's genocide case against Israel at the ICJ. [127][128][129][‡ 1]
United Arab Emirates Yes — [‡ 1]
United Kingdom No The Foreign Office under the Sunak ministry dismissed the accusation of genocide against Israel. Prime Minister Keir Starmer refused to call Israel's actions in Gaza "genocide". Two leaders of devolved nations within the United Kingdom – Northern Irish First Minister Michelle O'Neill and Scottish First Minister John Swinney – both stated that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, in July and August 2025 respectively. A letter written by then-foreign secretary David Lammy, revealed in September 2025, stated that the government's position was that the war did not meet the criteria to determine it as a genocide. [130][131][132][133]
United States No President Joe Biden and his Secretary of State Antony Blinken dismissed the accusation of genocide against Israel, with Blinken calling it "meritless". Biden's successor Donald Trump also rejected the allegations of genocide, instead calling it a "war" with Hamas. [134][135][136]
Uruguay Yes A resolution adopted by the governing Broad Front coalition in June 2025 condemned the "ethnic cleansing and genocide" committed by Israel in Gaza. Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin maintained that he views the resolution "positively", but refrained from stating whether the government considers the situation in Gaza a genocide or not; President Yamandú Orsi took a similar position. The government clarified its position after further calls by the Broad Front to condemn Israel's actions in Gaza, with Vice President Carolina Cosse affirming that genocide is being committed in October 2025. [137][138][139]
Venezuela Yes President Nicolás Maduro condemned Israel's actions as genocide. [140]
Yemen Yes In October 2023, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the UN-recognized Aden-based government condemned "the war crimes and genocide" committed by Israel in Gaza. In the aftermath of the Al-Ahli Arab Hospital explosion the same month, a spokesperson for the rival Sanaa-based Houthi government called Israeli actions in Gaza "genocide with American-Western cover", adding that "[t]here is no room for leaving the people of Gaza vulnerable to genocide, and all Islamic countries are responsible for effective and deterrent action." [141][‡ 1]

Governments described as silent on the matter

International organizations

United Nations

Officials of the United Nations have made statements alluding to the Gaza genocide throughout the course of the war.

  • In November 2023, a group of UN special rapporteurs wrote, "We remain convinced that the Palestinian people are at grave risk of genocide."[146][147] UN Special Rapporteur on the Human Rights to Safe Drinking Water and Sanitation Pedro Arrojo said that based on the Rome Statute, which counts "deprivation of access to food or medicine, among others" as a form of extermination, "even if there is no clear intention, the data show that the war is heading towards genocide".[148] A group of UN human rights experts said there was "evidence of increasing genocidal incitement" against Palestinians.[149][150]
  • In response to a January 2024 Times of Israel report that the Israeli government was in talks with the Congolese government to take Palestinian refugees from Gaza, the UN special rapporteur Balakrishnan Rajagopal said, "Forcible transfer of Gazan population is an act of genocide."[151][152]
  • In May 2024, UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women Reem Alsalem said that Palestinian women "are experiencing a full-blown genocide. They are being exterminated. There are few places in the world where we've seen something like this."[153][154] The UNHCR Special Rapporteur on adequate housing, Balakrishnan Rajagopal, said that Israel's destruction of Gaza "constitutes an act of genocide as well because the purpose of that destruction, exceeding 70 to 80 per cent across Gaza, is to make the place uninhabitable".[155]
  • In October 2024, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights released a report that accused the Israeli military of "the crime against humanity of extermination" for killing health workers and targeting health facilities.[156][157]
  • On 8 November 2024, the United Nations human rights office condemned many violations of international law that "could amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity and possibly even 'genocide'", calling on third states to prevent "atrocity crimes".[158][159]
  • On 14 November 2024, the UN Special Committee to investigate Israeli practices concluded that they are consistent with the characteristics of genocide.[160][161]
  • In February 2025, UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri said that Israel is committing a genocide and is working to "slow down its genocide through a starvation campaign", concluding that the United States and Germany were complicit in the ensuing famine.[162]
  • In May 2025, twenty UN independent experts and four working groups issued a statement accusing Israel of genocide and criticising the debate over the genocide terminology: "While States debate terminology – is it or is it not genocide? – Israel continues its relentless destruction of life in Gaza, through attacks by land, air and sea, displacing and massacring the surviving population with impunity ... States must act swiftly to end the unfolding genocide, dismantle apartheid, and secure a future in which Palestinians and Israelis coexist in freedom and dignity."[163]
  • In May 2025, UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Tom Fletcher urged world leaders to act decisively to prevent genocide in Gaza.[164][165] The US has vetoed UN Security Council ceasefire resolutions on Gaza six times, remaining the sole opponent while all 14 other members backed the calls.[166][167]
  • In September 2025, the UN Human Rights Council's Independent International Commission of Inquiry issued a report concluding that Israel is committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The Commission found reasonable grounds to determine that Israeli authorities and security forces have committed, and continue to commit, four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm; deliberately inflicting conditions of life calculated to bring about the group's physical destruction in whole or in part; and imposing measures intended to prevent births.[168][169] The Commission further determined that genocidal intent is the only reasonable inference from the totality of evidence, and that Israeli political and military leaders have incited the commission of genocide.[168][169] The Commission has characterised its findings as the most authoritative UN determination to date on the Gaza war.[169][170][171] Israeli officials, the US State Department, and the US-and Israel-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) condemned the report. Netanyahu denied its core findings on starvation, while the GHF called the report a collection of "falsehoods" that "rewards bad actors and undermines" humanitarian efforts.[170][171]

Other

In February 2024 the then-African Union Commission Chairperson Moussa Faki said: "Gaza is being completely annihilated and its people are deprived of all their rights. We denounce the Israeli operation, which has no parallel in the history of humanity."[172] The official communiqué of the 38th summit of the African Union stated that "Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians and must be prosecuted internationally."[173]

On 26 March, Pakistan's OIC representative said that Israel's desire for a "final solution to the Palestinian question is plain for all to see, as its forces encircle Rafah like vultures and its ravenous land grab continues unabated".[174] In May 2024, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation called on member states to end "the export of weapons and ammunition used by its army to perpetrate the crime of genocide in Gaza".[175]

On 16 August 2025, 31 Arab and Islamic countries and the Arab League released a joint statement condemning "Israel's crimes of aggression, genocide, and ethnic cleansing" in Gaza, and highlighted the need to ensure access to humanitarian aid to "halt the systematic starvation policy used by Israel as a weapon of genocide."[176] A month later, the European Parliament passed a resolution on the Gaza war, which in its initial form mentioned "genocidal actions" from Israel, but this was ultimately omitted at the request of the European People's Party.[177][178]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z aa ab ac ad ae Foreign minister of the relevant country, in a joint statement of 31 Arab and Islamic countries, "reiterate[d] their rejection and condemnation of the crimes of Israeli aggression, genocide, and ethnic cleansing" in August 2025.[5]

References

  1. ^ "Who accuses Israel of committing genocide in Gaza?". Al Jazeera. 6 December 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2025.
  2. ^ Sharma, Vasu (14 November 2023). "Decoding Pakistan and Afghanistan's Public Responses to the Israel-Hamas War". Stimson Center. Archived from the original on 17 January 2024. Retrieved 17 January 2024. The Taliban's response to the current conflict is entirely in support of the Palestinians and calls out Israeli aggression for violating their rights and the sanctity of Al-Aqsa and other mosques in Palestine. In a series of tweets, Afghanistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs referred to Israel's bombardment as a "genocide."
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