_On 26 October 2025, after three days of often harrowing evidence and testimony (23 to 25 October), the members of the Jury of Conscience at the Final Session of the Gaza Tribunal, in Istanbul, presented their Statement of Findings and Moral Judgment.

The six-member Jury of Conscience heard from experts, scholars, journalists, the people of Gaza, doctors, medical specialists, lawyers, NGOs and activists. Their evidence, testimony and witness accounts of the genocide in the Gaza Strip was often heartbreaking and shocking in its cruelty, intention, sadism and systematised depravity.

As the Jury members stated after the session on health: “I thought I knew, but now I know I know nothing”. “What I hear today is more than I ever knew”.

For those of us attending (online in my case), the amount of documentation was overwhelming and yet there are still those, such as our political leaders, who are turning a blind eye.

When asked about the nature of the sadism of the atrocities committed, a mental health expert stated that the lack of boundaries and apparent lack of impunity enabled such systematised conduct. There were many examples which included the deliberate bombing of Gaza’s fertility clinic, the assassination of journalists (two of three after giving video testimony in March), the shooting of men in the genitals, the switching off of power for humidicribs of newborns, the destruction of research facilities and neighbourhoods, arbitrary detention, rape and........

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