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Rights advocates to file complaint accusing US of ‘genocide complicity’
Palestinian rights advocates in the US are planning to file a complaint this week with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) accusing the US government of “complicity in genocide in Gaza”.
Palestinian American lawyer Huwaida Arraf said the complaint is being filed “because the US government has effectively shielded itself from accountability for its international crimes under its own legal system, even for crimes against humanity and genocide”.
The US provides Israel with at least $3.8bn in military assistance annually. Washington has provided billions more since the war on Gaza began in October 2023 and vetoed UN resolutions seeking to get Israel to end its offensive.
“While the United States actively enables and materially supports Israel’s atrocities, it has constructed legal shields at home that deny victims even the chance to seek redress,” Arraf said in a statement.
“The United States cannot continue to finance, arm, and politically cover for war crimes, crimes against humanity, and genocide abroad while remaining immune from international scrutiny. This petition is a call for accountability where none has yet been possible.”
The complaint is to be filed on Wednesday at the IACHR headquarters in Washington, DC.
‘Statements won’t stop starvation,’ US Muslim group says
The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) says that the US president’s statements that he hopes to see an end to Israel’s war on Gaza don’t go far enough.
“Statements won’t stop starvation or reverse mass death,” CAIR said in a statement, urging Washington to take concrete action to pressure Israel to halt its devastating attack.
It also called on the administration of US President Trump to end its unwavering military and political support for Israel, and demand the unimpeded delivery of aid to starving Palestinians in Gaza.
Trump wrote on his Truth Social account on Sunday that he hoped the release of Edan Alexander, the US-Israeli captive, by Hamas would be “the first of those final steps necessary to end this brutal conflict”.
Palestinian groups call for ‘diplomatic humanitarian convoy’ to Gaza
Palestinian civil society groups are calling for the international community to support the immediate deployment of a convoy through Gaza’s Rafah crossing to stop the “manufactured famine” gripping the Palestinian enclave.
“We urge states to join the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions – at the highest possible level – to accompany the aid trucks already waiting at the Rafah Crossing, and to enter Gaza alongside them,” the groups said in a statement.
“This is an act of legal obligation, moral courage, and human solidarity.”
Nearly 250 Palestinian and international rights groups signed onto the call to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza.
“This is a human imperative. A Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy would mark a historic step to break the siege, end the starvation, and affirm the world’s rejection of hunger as a weapon of war.”
Trucks line up at the Rafah crossing between Egypt and the Gaza Strip
