A reported proposal by Israeli government officials to cut the Gaza Strip’s electricity supply in retaliation for Palestinian militant groups’ rocket attacks on Israel would constitute unlawful collective punishment of Gaza’s civilian population, Human Rights Watch reports.

Cutting the electricity supply of an already impoverished population would have disastrous humanitarian consequences. A power cut would create severe hardships by interrupting government services, forcing businesses and factories to close, causing food and medicine to spoil, and disrupting the work of hospitals.

— Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East and
North Africa director at Human Rights Watch

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