3 Jahre 172 Tage Ukrainekrieg, noch 3 Jahre 151 Tage das Großmaul und: B’Tselem redet von Völkermord

B’Tselem ist eine israelische NGO, die 1989 als „Israelisches Informationszentrum für Menschenrechte in den besetzten Gebieten“ gegründet wurde.

Sie will nach eigenen Angaben keinen Unterschied machen, ob Menschenrechtsverletzungen von israelischer oder palästinensischer Seite aus begangen werden.

B’Tselem ist unabhängig und wird von verschiedenen Organisationen in Europa, Israel und den USA unterstützt. Zu den Förderern gehören die Europäische Kommission, das Foreign and Commonwealth Office, das norwegische Außenministerium, die Open Society Foundations (George Soros), der Europäische Demokratiefonds sowie die Ford Foundation. 

Am 28. Juli 2025 veröffentlichte B’Tselem den Bericht Our Genocide, in dem die Organisation das Vorgehen Israels gegen die Zivilbevölkerung in Gaza einen Völkermord nennt.

Hier die Zusammenfassung des Berichts, auf Englisch. 

Conclusion
While genocide is underway in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli regime is leading an assault on
the Palestinian population in the West Bank and a policy of egregious rights violations
against Palestinian citizens of Israel. The form and extent of these actions may vary across
the different areas under Israel's control, but they are rooted in the same underlying logic:
denial of Palestinian humanity. In a process beginning with the establishment of the State
of Israel in 1948 and expedited after the criminal Hamas attack on 7 October 2023, the lives
and dignity of Palestinians have come to be regarded as disposable by most Jewish-Israelis,
and violence against them normalized.
The routine killing and destruction in the Gaza Strip and the forced displacement of tens of
thousands in the West Bank would not have been possible without international inaction in
the face of the unfathomable scale and severity of these crimes. Most of these crimes have
been extensively documented and made public throughout almost two years of war. Yet
many state leaders, particularly in Europe and the United States, have not only refrained
from effective action to stop the genocide but enabled it — through statements affirming
Israel's "right to self-defense" or active support, including the shipment of weapons and
ammunition. Even after the International Court of Justice ruled there is plausible risk that
Israel's actions amount to genocidal acts, and even after the International Criminal Court
issued arrest warrants for Prime Minister Netanyahu and then-Defense Minister Gallant on
suspicion of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the international community failed
to bring these actions to an immediate halt and hold those responsible to account.
The genocidal nature of Israel's actions in the Gaza Strip and the international community's
failure to prevent them will not only affect Israel's future conduct toward the Palestinian
people. They are also likely to reshape norms of conduct in international relations and
the protection of human rights around the world. Trampling fundamental principles of
international law underfoot, and blatantly disregarding the moral norms that shaped the
post-WWII world order, may turn the use of indiscriminate lethal force and deliberate
targeting of civilians into the starting point in the conduct of future violent conflicts.
Confronting the immense destruction and moral disintegration requires not only
acknowledging the crimes but also commitment to action and to accountability — both
international and domestic. We acknowledge that rebuilding after such devastation will
be a long and arduous task that will require a fundamental shift in the foundations of the
88Conclusion
Israeli regime. This change is essential also because the Israeli regime, which has stripped
every moral value and obligation of meaning, is a danger to all people under its rule.
Therefore, everything must be done to prevent it from claiming more victims.
In the immediate term, the recognition that the Israeli regime is committing genocide
in the Gaza Strip and the deep concern that it may expand to other areas where
Palestinians live under Israeli rule demand urgent and unequivocal action from both
Israeli society and the international community.
This is the time to act. This is the time to save those who have not yet been lost forever,
and use every means available under international law to stop Israel's genocide of the
Palestinians.