"Organizers, human rights advocates, and legal experts from around the world convened in Barcelona in November 2025 for the International People's Tribunal on Palestine. Over the course of a weekend on November 22 and 23, jurors and attendees heard from more than a dozen witnesses who testified to Israel's calculated destruction of not only Gaza's population but also its natural environment."
"Besides arguing that Israel, the U.S., and some European governments have committed genocide in Gaza, prosecutors told jurors that the environmental devastation in the enclave amounts to ecocide. "Ecocide is committed to guarantee the objective of genocide," Omar Nashabe, a scholar of international human rights law who testified as an expert at the tribunal, told Truthout. "You kill the people, you need to not allow them to go back to the land, so you destroy the land.""
"Ultimately, a panel of seven jurors, including prominent human rights lawyers from Europe, Lebanon, Algeria, Turkey, and India, found Israel guilty of genocide, ecocide, and war crimes, including the forced starvation of the Palestinian people. Jurors also ruled that the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Hungary, and the Netherlands are guilty of the same crimes, "having provided indispensable cooperation that materially enabled and politically protected" Israel as it carried out its attacks on Palestinians, according to the"
An International People's Tribunal convened in Barcelona on November 22–23, 2025, where more than a dozen witnesses testified about Israel's calculated destruction of Gaza's population and natural environment. Prosecutors argued that environmental devastation in the enclave amounts to ecocide used to guarantee genocide by preventing return to land. Omar Nashabe testified that ecocide ensures the objective of genocide by destroying land so survivors cannot return. A seven-member jury of international human rights lawyers found Israel guilty of genocide, ecocide, and war crimes, including forced starvation. The jury also found the U.S., U.K., Germany, France, Hungary, and the Netherlands complicit for enabling and politically protecting these actions.
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