A joint report issued by 12 Israeli human rights organizations: Israel’s crimes have become a systematic daily policy

A joint report issued by 12 Israeli human rights organizations confirmed that the second year of the war on Gaza witnessed an unprecedented expansion in Israeli violations, both in scale and severity. The report indicated that 2025 marked a turning point, transforming practices previously described as “exceptional” into systematic, daily policy.

The report, released Tuesday, was prepared by a platform comprising prominent organizations, including Gisha, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, HaMoked, Yesh Din, Breaking the Silence, and Physicians for Human Rights. It is based on the findings of three consecutive annual reports (2023–2025).

The report revealed a decline in military discipline, an escalation of right-wing government rhetoric, and a tightening of policies toward Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, alongside ongoing attacks on judicial and civil oversight mechanisms within Israel.

By May 2024, the number of martyrs in Gaza had reached over 36,000, and this number rose to 67,173 by October 2025, including more than 20,000 children and approximately 10,000 women, in addition to some 10,000 bodies still buried under the rubble. The number of wounded also exceeded 170,000.

In 2024, more than one million Palestinians were displaced within the Gaza Strip, and this number rose to 1.9 million in 2025—nearly 90% of Gaza’s population. Many of these displaced people were displaced multiple times, coinciding with the collapse of entire residential neighborhoods and vital infrastructure.

The report indicated that the warning of famine in 2024 transformed into mass deaths in 2025 as a result of Israel’s starvation policy. In July, 13,000 children were suffering from acute malnutrition, and the United Nations officially declared famine in August. By October, 461 people had died of starvation, including 157 children.

The organizations also documented the deaths of 2,306 Palestinians and injuries to 16,929 others while they were attempting to obtain food near distribution centers, as a result of the chaos and live fire—a phenomenon not recorded in 2024 but which became part of the daily reality in 2025.

The report also documented a significant increase in the use of Palestinians as human shields, including children and the elderly, within Gaza, with systematic practices including restraining civilians, blindfolding them, and detaining them for days and weeks.

Between 2023 and 2024, organizations documented approximately 1,200 settler attacks. In 2025, these attacks escalated into widespread displacement operations, including the complete evacuation of 44 herding communities and the partial evacuation of 10 others, resulting in the displacement of 2,932 people, including 1,326 children.

The number of administrative detainees also rose from over 1,000 in 2023 to 3,577 in 2025. Ninety-eight prisoners died as a result of torture, medical neglect, and harsh detention conditions, confirming that ill-treatment has become a systematic policy permeating all branches of the security apparatus.

The report indicates an acceleration of violations in Jerusalem since 2023, including the use of land registration as a tool for property confiscation, tightened restrictions on movement, a decline in services, and unprecedented settlement expansion. The report describes 2025 as the year of transition from discriminatory policies to systematic and in-depth expropriation.