The Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor stated that the Israeli Supreme Court's decision to reject the appeal for allowing humanitarian aid into Gaza represents a central part of a comprehensive colonial system that directly contributes to the commission of genocide against the people of Gaza.
In a statement issued Friday, the monitor emphasised that the decision,further proves that the Israeli judiciary, which has never been an instrument of justice for Palestinians, functions as part of a systematic system involving all state institutions, including the government, military, security agencies, military prosecution, courts, and media. These institutions co-ordinate their roles to facilitate crimes against Palestinians, offer a false legal cover for them, and blatantly defy international legal and humanitarian standards.
The monitor pointed out that while human rights organisations warned of the accelerating famine in Gaza and the deaths of infants due to hunger due to Israel's blockade preventing the entry of humanitarian aid and basic goods for over three weeks the "Supreme Court" provided clear and direct legitimacy to this blockade, which deprived more than 2mn people, half of them children, of food, water, medicine, fuel, and electricity for 18 months.
The decision, according to the monitor, effectively endorses the use of starvation as a declared weapon against Palestinians in Gaza, making it an official policy implemented by political decision and confirmed by a court ruling one of the clearest manifestations of the involvement of all official Israeli institutions in the crime of genocide.
The Israeli court justified its decision by stating that the occupying power's obligations under international law do not apply to Israel in all matters concerning Gaza, directly contradicting established rules in international law that apply to the occupied Palestinian territories.
The decision was also described as a severe violation of the International Court of Justice's rulings in the genocide case against Israel and contradicts the advisory opinion issued in 2024.
It further constitutes a grave violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which applies to the occupied Palestinian territories, including Gaza. The Convention mandates that the occupying power must ensure the supply of food and medical supplies to the population under occupation.
