Targeting Displaced Persons Camps in Gaza is a Flagrant Violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention and a Brutal Escalation Requiring Criminal Accountability

On Apr 7, 2026

The Entisaf Organization for Women and Child Rights is following with grave concern and deep sorrow the brutal escalation and ongoing aggression waged by the Israeli occupation against the Gaza Strip. The organization condemns in the strongest terms the continuous and systematic targeting of civilians, particularly women and children, who constitute the vast majority of the victims.

The Israeli occupation has committed yet another massacre, adding to its bloody record against displaced persons in the Maghazi camp, resulting in the deaths of more than 10 people and injuries to dozens more, most of whom are women and children. This crime is irrefutable proof of the occupation’s utter disregard for human life and its insistence on continuing its genocidal war in flagrant violation of international law. These appalling figures, which include a large number of women and children—the most vulnerable group—constitute a blatant breach of the four Geneva Conventions, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which guarantees children’s right to life, survival, and development, and international human rights law, which prohibits indiscriminate and disproportionate targeting.

As a human rights organization, we call upon the international community and all relevant actors to immediately and unconditionally halt the aggression and genocidal war against civilians and to pressure the occupying authorities to cease their aggression and war of extermination immediately and without delay, and to protect women and children.

We urge the United Nations and all international organizations to activate protection mechanisms for women and children in conflict zones, ensure the safety and security of medical and humanitarian personnel, facilitate the delivery of emergency aid, and open safe corridors for the entry of medical supplies for treating the injuries of women and children, as well as food and relief supplies necessary to prevent a humanitarian catastrophe.

The organization also demands the immediate initiation of international accountability proceedings against the perpetrators of these crimes, which amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, before the competent international courts.

The Entisaf Organization affirms that international silence contributes to the exacerbation of this humanitarian catastrophe and increases the vulnerability of women and children. We hold the international community responsible for protecting these vulnerable groups.

Issued by the Entisaf Organization for Women and Children’s Rights, Sana’a

April 7, 2026