Dispatch № 001 · Palestine
Between October 2023 and October 2025, the State of Israel waged a two-year assault on the Palestinian people in Gaza that the International Court of Justice ruled posed a plausible risk of genocide — and that Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the UN Special Rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territory have, on the evidence, concluded constitutes the crime itself.
A fragile ceasefire has held since ; more than seven hundred Palestinians have been killed during it. The arrest warrants stand. The case at The Hague continues. The dead remain dead.
Yungspliff exists to keep that record legible, sourced, and impossible to look away from — an independent organisation documenting war crimes and genocides, in solidarity with their victims and their survivors.
من النهر إلى البحر، فلسطين حُرّة.
From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.
The figures below reflect direct deaths in Gaza confirmed by the Palestinian Ministry of Health and cross-referenced by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the World Health Organization. They are a floor, not a ceiling.
As of , confirmed killed in Gaza, per the Ministry of Health as reported by UN OCHA:
72,315
A further 172,137 wounded. A February 2025 study in The Lancet found that fatalities have likely been under-reported by approximately 41 percent — meaning the true direct death toll is substantially higher, before counting indirect deaths from famine, disease, and the collapse of the health system.
Every figure above is dated and sourced. Where authoritative sources diverge, we publish the conservative number and link to the rest. See Sources.
This is not a contested question among the institutions of international humanitarian law. The world's highest courts and most rigorous human-rights monitors have, in turn, examined the evidence and entered findings.
In South Africa v. Israel, the International Court of Justice finds it plausible that Israel's acts in Gaza fall within the provisions of the Genocide Convention and orders six binding provisional measures to prevent further acts of genocide.
SourceThe ICJ orders Israel to "immediately halt its military offensive, and any other action in the Rafah Governorate, which may inflict on the Palestinian group in Gaza conditions of life that could bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part."
SourceIn a separate Advisory Opinion, the ICJ rules that Israel's prolonged occupation of the Palestinian territories is unlawful and must be brought to an end "as rapidly as possible."
SourceThe International Criminal Court issues arrest warrants for the Israeli Prime Minister and former Defence Minister for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including the use of starvation as a method of warfare.
SourceAfter a year-long investigation, Amnesty International concludes that Israel has committed and is continuing to commit genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. The 296-page report documents the intent and the acts.
SourceHuman Rights Watch finds that Israeli authorities have committed the crime against humanity of extermination and acts of genocide, focused on the deliberate denial of water to the civilian population.
SourceThe UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory, Francesca Albanese, reports to the Human Rights Council that there are reasonable grounds to believe the threshold of genocide has been met.
SourceA ceasefire takes effect under a 20-point peace plan. Eight months on, the OHCHR reports that Palestinians across Gaza remain unsafe. By April 2026, Israeli forces hold 59 percent of the Strip; at least 738 Palestinians have been killed during the ceasefire period; the legal proceedings at the ICJ and ICC continue.
SourceA genocide is committed against people. The historical record belongs to them. Among the dead are more than two hundred journalists, who reported until they could not.
If I must die,
you must live
to tell my story
to sell my things
to buy a piece of cloth
and some strings,
(make it white with a long tail)
so that a child, somewhere in Gaza
while looking heaven in the eye
awaiting his dad who left in a blaze —
and bid no one farewell
not even to his flesh
not even to himself —
sees the kite, my kite you made, flying up above,
and thinks for a moment an angel is there
bringing back love.
If I must die
let it bring hope,
let it be a tale.
We have on this earth what makes life worth living.
What is happening here is beyond what words can describe, beyond what the human mind can comprehend. And still — we keep filming, because the world must see.
Witnessing is not enough. Below are three things you can do today. Each link is to an established organisation; we receive no money from any of them.
Direct humanitarian support to Palestinians on the ground, through organisations with operational presence and audited finances.
Ceasefire. Arms embargo. Honour the ICJ provisional measures. Find your representative, then call — calls outweigh emails.
Sample script: "Hello, I'm a constituent in [postcode]. I'm calling to ask [name] to support an immediate and permanent ceasefire, an end to arms transfers to Israel, and full compliance with the ICJ's provisional measures. Can I have [name]'s position on the record?"
History is the long memory of a people. A short reading list for the necessary context.
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