In a blatant and shocking statement, the usurping entity’s Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, called for cutting off water, electricity, and food to the Gaza Strip—an official admission of the policy of genocide and mass extermination pursued by the entity against the Palestinian people.
These remarks, described as a formal call for extermination, clearly reveal that what is happening in Gaza is a systematic plan to crush the civilian population and deprive them of life essentials.

A Systematic Starvation Policy

Since October 2023, more than 2.3 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been living under a suffocating siege, with repeated cuts of water and electricity, and the blocking of food, medicine, and fuel. Reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirm that over 500,000 people have reached severe levels of hunger, while the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) warned that Gaza City has officially entered famine, with predictions that the catastrophe will expand to include most of the population in the coming months.

The Numbers Expose the Crime

Statistics highlight the magnitude of destruction caused by the aggression, as the usurping entity dropped more than 100,000 tons of explosives on Gaza in two years, destroying infrastructure and reducing neighborhoods to rubble. In the health sector, around 80% of hospitals are out of service, depriving more than 17,000 patients and wounded of treatment, including over 2,800 in urgent need of travel abroad to save their lives. In the field of education, more than 12,800 students and 800 educational staff have been martyred in a systematic targeting of the next generation’s future, while nearly 1,661 educational facilities have been destroyed, leaving more than 785,000 students deprived of continuous education.

Genocide before the World

Smotrich’s statements did not come in a vacuum; they confirm that what the Palestinian people are enduring is not simply collateral damage of war, but a declared policy aiming to uproot the population and strip them of their right to life. Starvation, cutting off water and electricity, and destroying hospitals and schools are all crimes that amount to genocide under international law.

The International Community on Trial

At a time when human rights voices are increasingly warning of the catastrophe, this brazen statement places the international community to the test: either act swiftly to hold the leaders of the usurping entity accountable for crimes of genocide, or become complicit in the crime through silence and involvement.