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Incidents related to the Gaza Strip, including U.S. arms transfers and diplomatic support enabling military operations there, vetoes of ceasefire resolutions, and complicity in violations of international humanitarian law affecting the Palestinian population.
4 incidents
Grade 3 of 5: Serious Rights Violation
The US was the sole dissenter blocking Gaza ceasefire resolutions supported by all other Security Council members, while famine and allegations of genocide continued in Gaza. The pattern of vetoes enabled continued military operations with devastating humanitarian consequences.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
The Trump administration backed and funded a privatised aid scheme in Gaza whose four sites became scenes of near-daily shootings of hungry people, overwhelmingly by Israeli forces. The UN counted 859 killed near GHF sites in its first two months. The US approved $30 million for GHF after the killings were known. Whether that support amounts to complicity in war crimes is plausible but not established.
Grade 4 of 5: Critical Rights and Rule-of-Law Concern
President Trump publicly called for the removal of Gaza's Palestinian population, describing it as 'cleaning out' the territory. The UN, Arab League and international lawyers condemned the proposal as ethnic cleansing if implemented. The administration pressed Egypt and Jordan to accept Palestinians and reportedly explored relocation to Libya and East Africa; no transfer was carried out, and the September 2025 20-point plan states that no one will be forced to leave Gaza.
Grade 5 of 5: International Crime (Rome Statute)
Continued US arms transfers to Israel during ICJ genocide proceedings, including emergency bypasses of Congressional review and the rescission of the NSM-20 safeguard. This raises complicity in war crimes and crimes against humanity for which the ICC has issued arrest warrants (Rome Statute Art. 25(3)(d) and customary aiding and abetting). Complicity in genocide is alleged on the basis of the UN Commission of Inquiry's findings but is unadjudicated.