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A distinguished group of human rights activists, intellectuals, legal experts, and academics from around the world convened a People’s Tribunal against the Zionist occupation, aiming to expose the crimes committed in the Gaza Strip amid the international community’s failure to hold perpetrators accountable. This symbolic tribunal, modeled after official court structures, is part of a resistance tradition that seeks to document violations and assign moral responsibility to those behind policies causing mass suffering.

Legal expert Farah Imad represented APN in the tribunal, presenting two specialized papers—one on ecocide and the other on the use of starvation as a weapon.

In her paper titled “Starvation as a Weapon”, she argued that Israel employs a systematic policy of denying the population access to food, water, and medicine, while destroying vital infrastructure including agricultural lands, wells, and bakeries. She asserted that these actions constitute clear violations of the right to food and the prohibition against the starvation of civilians—both core principles of international humanitarian and criminal law—and may amount to war crimes or even acts of genocide.

The paper concluded that Israel not only fails to meet its legal obligations but also intensifies the siege, blocks humanitarian aid, and targets civilians at food distribution points. In its closing recommendations, APN called for an international arms embargo on Israel, accountability for those responsible for war crimes, an end to all forms of political and military support, the opening of crossings and guaranteed humanitarian access, support for Gaza’s reconstruction efforts, and full compliance with International Court of Justice rulings to end the occupation and lift the blockade.