Hold Israel’s War Crimes to Account! End the Famine in Gaza! Free Palestine!

The Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice (DCJ), joins the global call for Israel to end its illegal siege on Gaza and for the international community to deliver immediate aid.

For over 11 weeks, from 2 March to 19 May, Israel blocked all humanitarian aid from coming into Gaza, constituting the longest continuous siege Gaza had ever experienced. To this day, UNRWA, the largest aid organization in Gaza, is still disallowed from entering. The limited and insufficient aid that has been allowed after 19 May is coursed through a militarized distribution mechanism by the newly established, US/Israel-run Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF). GHF’s centers are “death traps” and “human slaughterhouses” where insufficient aid is used as bait to kill starving Gazans, an “essential tactic of this genocide”.

Let us be clear – we are witnessing, livestreamed right before our eyes, another Israeli war crime – starvation as a weapon of war against Palestinians. With farmlands eviscerated, food completely run out, and aid disallowed amid non-stop bombardment, over two million Palestinians in Gaza are living in acute food insecurity, half of whom are children.

Despite multiple alarms sounded by UN agencies such as UNICEF, OCHA, World Food Programme, UNRWA, as well as the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), Israel continues to block life-saving aid in open defiance of international humanitarian law, including legal orders from the International Court of Justice (ICJ), which remain ignored over a year later.

The current siege in Gaza is not an isolated event but is deeply rooted in ongoing colonization, illegal occupation, systemic injustices, and historical oppression of Palestine by the apartheid State of Israel. As movements fighting against racist and colonial systems of domination and representing oppressed peoples across the globe, we are in solidarity with the Palestinian struggle and view it as an integral part of our collective struggle for climate justice. There is #NoClimateJusticeWithoutHumanRights.

We therefore join the people and movements of the world in demanding the following urgent actions:

• STATES TO BRING AID AND DISPATCH DIPLOMATIC MISSIONS: States must dispatch official diplomatic missions at the highest level possible to bring aid trucks into Gaza, and follow the lead of The Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the Sumud Convoy of volunteers from Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria, Libya, and Egypt, and the Palestinian-led Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy, supported by the State of Palestine and more than 1,000 civil society organizations around the world. Unhindered, safe, stable, and sustained humanitarian access must be guaranteed to deliver lifesaving, multi-sectoral assistance and services at scale. This includes food, health care, water and sanitation (WASH), essential non-food items, fuel, and cooking gas.
• IMMEDIATE, UNCONDITIONAL, AND SUSTAINED CEASEFIRE NOW: This is critical to reducing the deaths caused by the famine and the catastrophic levels of suffering, especially of thousands of Palestinian children.

• END IMPUNITY AND STOP WAR CRIMES: Following the ICJ’s ruling, all those responsible for war crimes, including the State of Israel, must be held to account for their actions. The US and its allies must stop their support for Israel, including a complete arms embargo. We also echo the Global Energy Embargo for Palestine’s demand for an energy embargo and all the demands of the Palestinian COP30 Coalition, especially the call to end water apartheid in Palestine by terminating all projects with Merokot and Netafim.
• FREE PALESTINE! END APARTHEID AND OCCUPATION: We support the self-determination of the Palestinian people. We call on Israel to end its system of apartheid and to grant the right of return and reparations to Palestinian refugees. We call on the international community to finally uphold the UN resolutions for a safe, secure, and viable State of Palestine alongside a State of Israel.