International Humanitarian Law rules are mandatory and binding, yet their application is linked to the extent of states' commitment to them. This has made the protection system in Fourth Geneva Convention unable to achieve its intended goal, allowing the commission of war crimes and heinous massacres against civilians in conflict zones and countries under occupation, such as the Palestinian people under Israeli occupation. The international community no longer seems to care about the war crimes and crimes against humanity occurring in the Gaza Strip. The prevailing trend is for Israeli occupation forces to challenge the principles of international law and hundreds of resolutions issued by the United Nations and international organizations, while the world ignores and neglects the Palestinian people. The Palestinian people have only received a number of phrases, verbal condemnations, and slogans that have not stopped the "genocide machine" practiced by Israeli occupation forces against innocent civilians.

Israeli occupation forces have not only violated the rules and principles of international humanitarian law, including the principle of distinction, the principle of proportionality, and the principle of precaution, but they have also deliberately distorted the laws of war and manipulated facts to justify their hostile actions against Palestinian civilians. They have targeted civilian homes, medical facilities, educational buildings, markets, and infrastructure that provides basic services to citizens, such as water facilities, roads, and bridges, with random and deliberate attacks. These attacks have deprived protected persons of all means of livelihood, rendering the Gaza Strip no longer fit for living.

This paper discusses the extent to which Israeli occupation forces failed to comply with the principles of international humanitarian law during their brutal attack on the Gaza Strip. It refutes and clarifies the flimsy claims used by the occupation forces to extinguish the legitimacy of their random military attacks on the infrastructure, which destroyed all means of life. Maat did not find any indications that the targeted infrastructure contained legitimate military objectives; therefore, these attacks against civilian objects are considered violations of international law and war crimes.