14 Jul 2025 – At a pivotal moment in history, a groundbreaking legal complaint has been filed with the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), accusing prominent Belgian and European institutions of complicity in what is described as “systemic ecocide and genocide.”
Koenraad Priels
This submission, spearheaded by Belgian researcher Koenraad Priels, is not merely a call for justice—it is an urgent demand for transformative change in the face of a planetary polycrisis that threatens both human civilization and the biosphere.
The Core of the Complaint
The legal action is rooted in extensive empirical, mathematical, and legal evidence demonstrating that the current global financial architecture—anchored in debt-driven, interest-bearing banking and rentier capitalism—systematically generates large-scale harm.
With relentless attacks on healthcare since the war began in October 2023, only around half of Gaza’s hospitals are even partially functioning, depriving women and girls of access to critical care as well as the essentials to survive – food, water, shelter and protection from violence.
(UN News)* — After another deadly weekend in Gaza in which at least 67 Palestinians were reportedly killed seeking food, UN aid teams on Monday [] described “mayhem” and starvation in the enclave as the Israeli military pushed into Deir Al-Balah for the first time.
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UNRWA | Families evacuate from Deir Al -Balah in the Gaza Strip
In an alert, the UN agency for Palestine refugees, UNRWA, relayed desperate testimonies from its colleagues who are also struggling to survive in the war-torn enclave.
“We’re in the death phase,” one UNRWA worker said.
“Everything around people at the moment is death, whether it’s bombs or strikes, children wasting awayin front of their eyes from malnourishment, from dehydration, and dying.”
HUMAN WRONGS WATCH 