Compilation of NGO Statements on October 7 Massacre and Aftermath

October 17, 2023 (updated on October 29, 2023)

1) Joint Statements

7) United Nations

Excerpts of Statements from NGOs

Joint Statements

7amleh/Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP)/PAX/European Legal Support Center (ELSC)/Al Mezan/MIFTAH/Al Haq/Bisan/Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)/American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)/Adalah/US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)/Palestine Legal/Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

On October 13, 54 NGOs published a statement urging tech companies to “Respect Palestinian Digital Rights in Times of Crisis.” According to the statement, “We call upon tech companies to recognize their crucial role and responsibility in the region, and to adhere to business and human rights principles as well as international human rights laws in safeguarding freedom of expression. More particularly, tech companies should refrain from being actively involved in the ongoing silencing and atrocities committed against the Palestinian people.”

Joint Statement by Oxfam GB, Action Against Hunger, War Child, Islamic Relief, Christian Aid, CAFOD, Plan International UK, Humanity and Inclusion, Action Aid UK, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Care International UK, Norwegian Refugee Council

On October 14, 12 UK NGOs published a statement affirming that, “The UK should be using its influence to ensure International Humanitarian Law is upheld, that civilians are protected in accordance with those laws, and that they have access to critical lifesaving humanitarian support.”

Joint Statement by American Friends Service Committee, Churches for Middle East Peace, Church World Service, Mennonite Central Committee, Pax Christi USA, Presbyterian Church USA, United Church of Christ

On October 12, 26 church-based organizations wrote a letter to the US Congress claiming that “We also condemn the indiscriminate and violent Israeli response that has already claimed hundreds of civilian lives.…Any Congressional effort that is one-sided and rushes to send new weapons to Israel will only intensify the conflict, leading to further deaths and destruction.… we are reminded once again that only by addressing core systemic issues, including decades of institutionalized oppression and collective punishment of Palestinians through brutal military occupation and a 16-year Gaza blockade, will Israelis and Palestinians live in peace.”

Joint Statement by ActionAid, Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committee (PARC), Amos Trust, Avaaz, Broederlijk Delen, Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD), Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), CARE, Christian Aid, Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP), DanChurchAid, Diakonia, Embrace the Middle East, FIDH, Islamic Relief, Israeli Committee against House Demolitions (ICHAD), Kairos Palestine, Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights (LPHR), Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), Medico, Mennonite Central Committee, Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA), Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), Oxfam, PAX, Sabeel, Save the Children, Terre des Hommes, PRC, Viva Salud, War on Want, WESPAC, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)

On October 18, over 200 NGOs signed a statement calling for “an Immediate Ceasefire in the Gaza Strip and Israel to Prevent a Humanitarian Catastrophe and Further Loss of Innocent Lives.”

Joint Statement by Adalah Justice Project, Al-Haq, CAIR, National Lawyers Guild, Palestine Legal, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)

On October 19, over 100 NGOs signed a statement calling for “Action To Stop Racist Targeting of Palestine Advocates and Safeguard Fundamental Rights.” According to the statement, “The total dehumanization of Palestinians by Israel, fueled by misinformation campaigns relying on Islamophobic and racist tropes, and echoed by U.S. officials and amplified by news networks, has created an alarming and dangerous situation for Palestinians and their allies in the U.S.…Institutional leaders are likewise issuing racist condemnations of Palestinians and those standing in solidarity with them, ignoring or even sanctioning the unfolding genocide in Gaza and focusing solely on the impact on Israelis. Such statements not only foment anti-Palestinian sentiment and dehumanization, but also entirely ignore the history and daily violence experienced by Palestinians through nearly eight decades of colonial oppression.”

Joint Statement by Al-Haq, Al Mezan, PCHR, ICHR, PNGO, Addameer, Bisan, MIFTAH, WCLAC, JLAC, WSC, UAWC, Hurryyat, DCI-P, ELSC, FIDH, CCR, EuroMed Rights, Rights Forum, PYALARA, PARC, YMCA, CODEPINK

On October 20, 100 NGOs sent a letter to ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan to “Issue Arrest Warrants, Investigate Israeli Crimes and Intervene to Deter Incitement to Commit Genocide in Gaza.”

Joint Statement by PNGO, Coalition for Accountability and Integrity Palestine (AMAN), Al Mezan, Bisan Center for Research and Development, Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), Adalah, MA’AN Development Center, Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), Palestinian Youth Association for Leadership & Rights Activation (PYALARA), MIFTAH, Hurryyat, Society of Saint Yves, Sabeel, Al-Haq, Women’s Studies Center, Health Work Committees

On October 21, NGOs wrote an open letter calling for “UNCONDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID MUST BE ALLOWED TO ENTER IMMEDIATELY.” The letter claims that Israel enacted “an illegal collective punishment against the 2.3 million civilian population… Israel’s breach of the prohibition to use starvation as a weapon of warfare against Gaza’s civilian population, as well as how the ‘evacuation order’ issued by the Israeli military on 13 October may amount to the war crime of forcible transfer… eight UN independent experts warned that ‘[t]here is an ongoing campaign by Israel resulting in crimes against humanity in Gaza. Considering statements made by Israeli political leaders and their allies […] there is also a risk of genocide against the Palestinian People.’” The letter calls to “Ensure that the delivery of humanitarian aid and relief will not be conditioned or limited to Gaza’s southern districts.”

Joint Statement by Kairos Palestine, Christ at the Checkpoint, Sabeel Ecumenical Center for Liberation Theology, The East Jerusalem YMCA, The YWCA of Palestine, The Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches

On October 20, 12 NGOs published a statement, “Further, we watch with horror the way many western Christians are offering unwavering support to Israel’s war against the people of Palestine.. we write to challenge western theologians and church leaders who have voiced uncritical support for Israel and to call them to repent and change… We are also horrified by the refusal of some western Christians to condemn the ongoing Israeli occupation of Palestine, and, in some instances, their justification of and support for the occupation. Further, we are appalled by how some Christians have legitimized Israel’s ongoing indiscriminate attacks on Gaza.. including the heinous massacre at Al-Ahli Anglican-Baptist Hospital … we categorically reject the myopic and distorted Christian responses that ignore the wider context and the root causes of this war: Israel’s systemic oppression of the Palestinians over the last 75 years since the Nakba, the ongoing ethnic cleansing of Palestine, and the oppressive and racist military occupation that constitutes the crime of apartheid.”

International NGOs

Action Aid

On October 16, ActionAid sent a letter to European Council President Charles Michel, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, and EU High Representative of the EU for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel calling to “seek a just resolution to the root causes that led to the escalation of violence and to apply the international law, notably regarding the blockade of Gaza and the expansion of illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territory which result in daily violence.”
On October 10, ActionAid tweeted, “At this time when people in Gaza are experiencing an intense blockade cutting them off from food, electricity, water, and fuel we are deeply concerned to see some at the EU question the vital €690m aid package to the Palestinian people. Now would be the worst time to cut funding for over two million people experiencing a humanitarian crisis. We urge the EU to pause and rethink this potentially catastrophic decision and maintain lifesaving funding for families in their greatest hour of need.”
On October 8, ActionAid released a statement claiming that, “The escalating situation highlights the international community’s failure to address the extended occupation and the Gaza blockade, emphasizing the urgent need for a lasting solution as per the UN resolutions.”

Amnesty International

On October 20, Amnesty published a statement titled, “Damning evidence of war crimes as Israeli attacks wipe out entire families in Gaza.” The statement quoted Amnesty Secretary General Agnes Callamard who claimed, “For 16 years, Israel’s illegal blockade has made Gaza the world’s biggest open-air prison – the international community must act now to prevent it becoming a giant graveyard.”
On October 20, Amnesty International UK Campaigns Manager Kristyan Benedict tweeted, “Israeli forces and state-backed settlers continue their annexation and apartheid crimes in the Occupied West Bank as attention is on #Gaza.”
On October 18, Amnesty tweeted, “We call on President Biden to address the injustices and impunity at the root of the current crisis, so that both Palestinians and Israelis can enjoy human rights in peace and security. President Biden must also cease US unreserved support for Israel’s actions in Gaza and the OPT.”
On October 17, Amnesty tweeted, “The French government has banned all demonstrations in support of Palestinians rights. This constitutes a serious and disproportionate attack on the right to demonstrate. Under international law a ban on demonstrations must be considered as a last resort.”
On October 15, Amnesty tweeted, “This is yet another brutal illustration that civilians in Gaza have nowhere safe to go. They fear they will die whether they leave or not. Israel’s order to ‘evacuate’ is NOT compliant w/ IHL & must be rescinded. Civilians must be granted access to safety, medical care & aid.”
On October 14, Agnes Callamard tweeted, “#Gaza: So many lives already lost. So many more at risk as Israel announce comprehensive offensive attack. Mass killings of civilians has to stop. Humanity and moral clarity must prevail. Many in the int’l community have spoken out. US and the EU kept quiet. They must act now.”
On October 13, Amnesty published a statement titled “Appalling Gaza “evacuation order” must be rescinded by Israel immediately,” claiming that, “The Israeli army’s order to people in northern Gaza and Gaza city to ‘evacuate’ to the south of the Gaza Strip, cannot be considered an effective warning and may amount to forced displacement of the civilian population, a violation of international humanitarian law… Civilians in Gaza must not be used as political pawns and their lives cannot be devalued… The international community must also refrain from further legitimizing Israel’s 16-year long illegal blockade and immediately halt the transfer of arms that could be used to commit unlawful attacks… While many Palestinians in northern Gaza are trying to flee, others have told Amnesty International that they are choosing to stay for fear this could become a “second Nakba” as the generational trauma of displacement is etched in the collective memories of many Gazans….
On October 13, Amnesty tweeted, “Amnesty’s Crisis Evidence Lab has verified that Israeli military units striking Gaza are equipped with white phosphorus artillery rounds. We are investigating what appears to be the use of white phosphorus in Gaza, including in a strike near a hotel on the beach in Gaza City…”
On October 12, Amnesty tweeted, “The shutdown of Gaza’s only power plant will exacerbate an already desperate humanitarian crisis for more than 2.2 million people trapped in the Gaza Strip. Israel must lift the illegal and inhumane blockade on Gaza as power plant runs out of fuel.”
On October 12, Amnesty published a statement claiming, “The latest attacks in Israel must be seen in the wider context of the situation in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. But Amnesty International reiterates in the strongest possible terms that nothing can justify war crimes. The injustices and violations that are among the root causes of this violence must be addressed as a matter of urgency. Civilians will continue to pay a heavy price until Israel dismantles its system of apartheid against Palestinians, including ending its illegal blockade on Gaza.”
On October 11, Amnesty tweeted, “Without addressing the root causes of this violence, including impunity for war crimes by all sides and Israel’s system of apartheid imposed on Palestinians, civilians will continue to pay the price.”
On October 9, Senior Director for Research, Advocacy, Policy and Campaigns Erika Guevara Rosas tweeted, “#Israel: Collective punishment is a war crime. The use of starvation as a weapon of war is also a war crime. The international community must denounce these abhorrent calls in the strongest possible terms.”
On October 7, Amnesty published a press release claiming that “The root causes of these repeated cycles of violence must be addressed as a matter of urgency. This requires upholding international law and ending Israel’s 16-year-long illegal blockade on Gaza, and all other aspects of Israel’s system of apartheid imposed on all Palestinians. The Israeli government must refrain from inciting violence and tensions in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, especially around religious sites. Amnesty International calls on the international community to urgently intervene to protect civilians and prevent further suffering. In 2021, the International Criminal Court opened an investigation into the situation in the State of Palestine. Its mandate includes crimes under international law committed by all parties in the current fighting, as well as the crime against humanity of apartheid against Palestinians.”
On October 7, Amnesty International Secretary General Agnes Callamard published a thread on X (formerly Twitter):

Agnes Callamard, October 7

Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA)

On October 14, AIDA published a statement claiming, “the forced relocation, without guarantees of safety or return and a failure to address the needs of the protected population, raise significant concerns of potential forcible transfer, constituting a grave breach of IHL, amounting to a war crime.”
On October 12, AIDA published a statement, “AIDA has warned for years of the cruel impact of the blockade on the population of the Gaza strip and the risk of violence it creates. This horrible crisis brutally highlights the need for a peaceful and lasting resolution to the prolonged military occupation of the occupied Palestinian territories (oPt) and the 17-year blockade on Gaza.”

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

On October 9, HRW published a press release and accompanying Q&A claiming that “Israeli authorities’ cutting off electricity to Gaza and other punitive measures against Gaza’s civilian population would amount to unlawful collective punishment, which is a war crime. The laws of war apply to all parties to a conflict, irrespective of the lawfulness of their going to war or imbalances of power between the parties. The Israeli government’s systematic oppression in the OPT, coupled with inhumane acts committed against Palestinians as part of a policy to maintain the domination by Jewish Israelis over Palestinians, amount to the crimes against humanity of apartheid and persecution, as Human Rights Watch previously found.”
Tweets by HRW Program Director Sari Bashi

Sari Bashi, October 7

Tweet by former HRW Executive Director Ken Roth

Ken Roth, October 7

On October 21, Omar Shakir tweeted, “While few trucks of aid squeezed in via Egypt, Israel’s keeping its crossings w Gaza closed & refusing to flick the switch for water & electricity. There’s no excuse for denying water, food & meds to 2.2+ million ppl. It’s a war crime. It must end. Lives hang in the balance. @hrw”
On October 21, Middle East and North Africa Director at Human Rights Watch Lama Fakih tweeted, “If Western states are serious about human rights and the laws of war, principles they apply to Russian atrocities in Ukraine and to Hamas atrocities in Israel; they also have to apply them to Israel’s brutal disregard for civilian life in Gaza.”
On October 21, Roth tweeted, “The oppressive discrimination that the Israeli government imposes on millions of Palestinians in occupied territory — the apartheid — does not begin to be justified by security concerns. It is about dominance, land grabs, and demographic engineering.”
On October 19, Executive Director at Human Rights Watch Tirana Hassan tweeted, “The #US should draw from its own mistakes & remind #Israel that ‘violating the laws of war comes with moral, legal, and practical consequences that will last far beyond the end of the fighting.’ Protecting civilians should be paramount. @YagerSarahH”
On October 18, HRW published a statement calling on Israel to “immediately end its total blockade of the Gaza Strip that is putting Palestinian children and other civilians at grave risk…The collective punishment of the population is a war crime.”
On October 16, at an event hosted by Chatham House, HRW Israel/Palestine Director Omar Shakir claimed, “The rhetoric by the Israeli government has been very clear. They are signaling a criminal intent to commit large scale atrocities. We’re witnessing an unprecedented descent into darkness, and world leaders need to act before it’s too late.”
On October 16, Roth tweeted, “To see why the Israeli government might want to ethnically cleanse the Palestinians of Gaza to Egypt, it helps to understand Israel’s longstanding policy of demographic engineering, made more urgent by the ‘one-state reality’ created by its settlements.”
On October 16, HRW Israel/Palestine Director Omar Shakir tweeted, “More incendiary language from Israeli officials calling for the entire population of Gaza—2.2+ million people, half of whom are children—to be collectively punished. This is evidence of criminal intent. World leaders must act to prevent large-scale atrocities before it’s too late.”
On October 15, in an interview with MSNBC, HRW Program Director Sari Bashi claimed, “That’s the essence of apartheid — it’s racial domination, it’s discrimination.”
On October 16, HRW published a statement and accompanying Q&A writing that “war crimes by one party don’t justify war crimes by the other. On Friday, the Israeli army ordered more than 1 million people — half the population — to leave northern Gaza within 24 hours, in advance of an imminent military ground operation. Though that initial deadline passed, the order raises serious legal and humanitarian red flags — and fears for the safety of civilians… such measures amount to a form of collective punishment, which is a war crime and prohibited by the Fourth Geneva Convention…”
On October 16, Ken Roth tweeted, “‘International humanitarian law’ is not concocted by human rights groups. Its rules are agreed to by all governments including Israel’s — not just a nice thing to do but required even when the going gets rough, even when a nation’s people are slaughtered.”
On October 16, HRW tweeted, “‘The rhetoric by the Israeli government has been very clear,’ says @OmarSShakir. ‘They are signaling a criminal intent to commit large scale atrocities. We’re witnessing an unprecedented descent into darkness, and world leaders need to act before it’s too late.’”
On October 16, Roth tweeted, “Hasan Alhasan, a Middle East expert, asked whether ‘there is any viable military strategy short of a total ethnic cleansing of Gaza that would lead to a permanent defeat of Hamas.’ Is that the plan?”
On October 15, HRW’s Israel and Palestine Director Omar Shakir tweeted, “Israeli authorities are signaling their intent to commit mass atrocities. They must be stopped…they [Israelis] want revenge, using incendiary language & suggesting that the entire population of Gaza—2.2+ million people, half of whom are children—should be collectively punished…The Israeli army is publicly sharing images of reducing entire blocks & neighborhoods in Gaza to rubble—acts that may be war crimes…History teaches us that, when there are clear calls to commit large-scale atrocities by party capable of doing so & actions taken consistent with those words, they need to be taken seriously & stopped. That’s where we are today in Israel & Palestine. A descent into darkness…”
On October 15, Ken Roth tweeted, “As US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley gave Israel unconditional support, without regard to its war crimes and apartheid. Now as a presidential candidate, she is doubling down on the same approach.”
On October 14, HRW Israel/Palestine Director Omar Shakir tweeted, “Israeli authorities are signaling their intent to commit mass atrocities. They must be stopped.”
On October 13, Sari Bashi published an article titled “Nowhere to Go in Gaza” writing, “the fact that Hamas-led fighters committed unspeakable war crimes does not give the Israeli military permission to flout its obligations to civilians in Gaza. The evacuation announcement risks mass forced displacement… after the Israeli authorities cut supplies of fuel, water, food, and electricity to Gaza in what amounts to a form of collective punishment—itself a war crime… Israel’s evacuation order hit a particularly raw nerve for the 70 percent of Gaza residents who are already refugees—having fled their homes in what is now Israel in 1948—and their descendants. They have never been allowed back. That refusal of their right to return is one of the root causes of the current violence.”
On October 13, Roth tweeted, “Bush has the audacity to offer advice to Netanyahu even after Bush transformed America’s 9/11 into an excuse for torture and war crimes. Netanyahu may be heading down the same path, but he would be wise to learn from Bush about what NOT to do.”
On October 12, HRW published a statement and accompanying Q&A accusing Israel of employing white phosphorus in Gaza. According to the statement, “The use of white phosphorus in densely populated areas of Gaza violates the requirement under international humanitarian law to take all feasible precautions to avoid civilian injury and loss of life… Israeli authorities have cut electricity, water, fuel and food into Gaza, in violation of the international humanitarian law prohibition against collective punishment, exacerbating the dire humanitarian situation from over 16 years of Israeli closure.”
On October 11, Roth published an article claiming, “Israel had every reason to respond militarily to the atrocious Hamas assault on its civilians. But a good reason to fight is no reason to violate the rules governing that fight. If the Israeli government responds to its 9/11 moment with George W Bush-like indifference to those rules, it will soon follow the route of his government from global sympathy to global outrage. I only hope that the prospect of such a trajectory gives it pause.” Additionally, Roth claimed, “Already we are hearing the usual refrain – that Hamas is responsible for the loss of civilian life because it is using civilians as ‘human shields’. But ‘shielding’ refers to purposefully using the presence of civilians to prevent an attack, not mere fighting from urban areas, especially when that is what so much of Gaza is.”
On October 11, Roth tweeted an article titled “Hubris meets nemesis in Israel, quoting, ” By ruling out any political process in Palestine and boldly asserting that ‘the Jewish people have an exclusive and inalienable right to all parts of the Land of Israel,’ Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu’s fanatical government made bloodshed inevitable.”
On October 11, Roth tweeted, “The lackadaisical approach of International Criminal Court prosecutor @KarimKhanQC to the open investigation of war crimes in Palestine has promoted an atmosphere of impunity that today increases the likelihood of more and more war crimes.”
On October 11, HRW Director of Crisis Advocacy Akshaya Kumar published a statement claiming, “Israeli authorities, the occupying power over Gaza under international law, have a duty to ensure that the basic needs of the population are met. Instead, they have since 2007 run Gaza as an “open air prison,” imposing sweeping restrictions on the movement of people and goods. In the wake of the weekend attacks, authorities are now closing those prison walls in further.”
On October 10, HRW Israel/Palestine Director Omar Shakir tweeted, “We’re investigating. Nothing can justify such atrocities, nor can they justify committing atrocities in Gaza.”
On October 10, Ken Roth tweeted, “We should be able to agree that Hamas’s killing and abduction of civilians are war crimes without obliterating Palestinians’ deep frustration at the moribund ‘peace process,’ the demise of the ‘two state solution,’ the abandonment to apartheid without end.”
On October 10, HRW published a statement by Sari Bashi claiming, “Following the assault, the Israeli military launched a massive bombing campaign on the Gaza Strip. Nearly 700 Palestinians have been killed, including 140 children, as of October 9, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. The Israeli authorities have also unlawfully cut electricity to Gaza’s 2.2 million residents and reduced water supply, exacerbating the impact of Israel’s more than 16-year illegal closure of Gaza and its crimes of apartheid and persecution against Palestinians.”
On October 10 Omar Shakir tweeted, “Breaking: @IntlCrimCourt Prosecutor’s Office speaks out, making clear that ‘crimes committed in the current context’ fit within their mandate, that they’re gathering information as part of their formal probe into serious crimes in Palestine & encouraging victims to come forward.”
On October 10, European Media & Editorial Director Andrew Stroehlein tweeted, “Their atrocities do not justify your atrocities. The brutality of their war crimes does not lessen the brutality of your war crimes.”
On October 9, Associate Program Director Fred Abrahams tweeted, “Israel Def Min orders full siege on Gaza with ‘no electricity, no food, no water, no fuel.’ Laws of war are clear: parties must allow and facilitate the rapid and unimpeded passage of impartially distributed humanitarian aid to a population in need. With crass, dehumanizing language to justify chokehold and collective punishment of a population long under occupation and control.”
On October 9, HRW tweeted, “Abhorrent. This is a call to commit a war crime by @yoavgallant. The @IntlCrimCourt should take note.”
On October 9, HRW Israel/Palestine Director Omar Shakir tweeted, “Abhorrent. Depriving an occupied population of food & electricity is collective punishment—a war crime—as is using starvation as a weapon of war. This imperils the lives of 2.2 million Palestinians living under Israel’s crushing, unlawful closure. @IntlCrimCourt should take note.”
On October 9, Shakir tweeted, “The killings of 100s of Israelis & Palestinians over last 72 hours reflect a flagrant disregard by all for int’l law. So long as there’s impunity, Gaza remains an open-air prison & Israel’s apartheid isn’t dismantled, bloodshed & repression will continue.”
On October 9, Roth tweeted, “The broad support now for Hamas across the Middle East despite its war crimes reflects popular discontent with normalization deals that bypass the rights of Palestinians condemned to life under apartheid.”
On October 9, Roth tweeted, “Like the last war in Gaza, the Israeli military is again destroying large residential apartment towers — four of them so far. Any claim of a ‘Hamas office’ or the like does not justify the massively disproportionate effect on people’s homes. #WarCrimes.”

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

On October 13, FIDH published a statement that it is “shocked and horrified at the videos and reports of Israeli indiscriminate killings of civilians and the mass destruction of entire neighbourhoods in the Gaza Strip…FIDH condemns the Israeli aggression as an appalling act of retaliation and brute violence.”
On October 11, FIDH published a statement claiming, “The cycle of violence is a predictable result of Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime that has lasted too long despite calls and warnings issued by human rights organizations and United Nations mechanisms.” The statement further called on Israel to “end the colonisation, apartheid regime and annexation policies imposed on Palestinian people, which are the root causes underlying the continuing waves of conflict in the territory.”
On October 8, FIDH retweeted the statement of Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR (see below), writing, “#FIDH strongly condemns all acts of violence and vengeance in #Israel and #Palestine. All parties must prioritise the protection of civilians. Urgent action is needed for a cease-fire and addressing the root causes of this latest military escalation.”

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders)

On October 21, MSF posted a twitter thread: “The number of trucks allowed to deliver aid into Gaza through the Rafah crossing on October 21 is totally insufficient compared to the desperate needs of the people, who have been under complete siege and relentless bombing for two weeks.”
On October 14, MSF published a statement calling on “Israeli authorities to show humanity….As the Israeli army has been bombarding the Gaza Strip without restraint for a week, we are calling for the most elementary humanity to be shown.”
On October 13, MSF tweeted, “Israel’s 24-hour notice that people in Northern Gaza must leave their land, homes and hospitals is outrageous – this represents an attack on medical care and on humanity. We have consistently seen dehumanising language and this violence is a manifestation of that.”
On October 10, MSF published a statement affirming, “The declaration of war must not, under any circumstances, lead to collective punishment of the population of Gaza. Cutting off water, electricity and fuel supplies is unacceptable, as it punishes the entire population and deprives them of their basic needs.”
On October 8, MSF published a statement calling on “all parties to respect the sanctity of medical facilities, vehicles and personnel.” According to MSF medical coordinator in Gaza Darwin Diaz, “Ambulances can’t be used right now because they’re being hit by airstrikes.”
On October 7, MSF tweeted, “Following the escalation between Israel and Gaza, Israeli forces struck the enclave’s Indonesian hospital and an ambulance in front of Nasser Hospital in southern Gaza. The strikes killed one nurse, one ambulance driver, injured several and damaged an oxygen station…We have been supporting both hospitals since 2021 and 2011 respectively. Health care facilities cannot become targets. We ask all parties to respect health infrastructures, which must remain a sanctuary for people seeking treatment…The scale of this new round of hostilities must not be underestimated, with Palestinian and Israeli authorities reporting massive casualties all over Israel and Gaza.”

Norwegian Refugee Council

On October 13, NRC published a press release demanding that “Israeli ultimatum to Gaza must be reversed.” According to the press release, “loss of civilian lives caused by deliberate or indiscriminate use of force is a war crime for which the perpetrators will have to answer. We fear that Israel may claim that Palestinians who could not flee northern Gaza can be erroneously held as directly participating in hostilities, and targeted.”
On October 9, NRC Secretary General Jan Egeland tweeted, “There is no other way to describe the deliberate killing of hundreds of Israeli civilians by Hamas than terrorism. But a bombardment that will kill scores of Palestinian children and the cutting of electricity, food and fuel for hospitals and families have no justification.”
On October 9, NRC published a statement: “The humanitarian situation in Gaza continues to deteriorate. Israel has announced that they will now lay a complete siege on Gaza and cut food, water and fuel. This represents a grave violation of international law.”
On October 7, NRC Palestine Country director Ana Povrzenic published a statement affirming that “All parties must adhere to international humanitarian law by refraining from deliberately or indiscriminately targeting civilians. They must abide by the principles of humanitarian law. “The only path towards stability and peace is for the international community to finally address the root causes of the conflict including ending the occupation of Palestinian territory. We are monitoring the humanitarian impact and preparing to support those in need of humanitarian assistance.”

Oxfam

On October 13, Oxfam published a press release claiming, “The world can see that this evacuation order is both utterly inhumane and impossible; the Israeli government must rescind it immediately…It is incumbent upon Israel to obey international humanitarian law; they must distinguish between military and civilian targets. We call on it to immediately recall this order and allow humanitarian aid into Gaza.”
On October 10, Oxfam published a press release claiming, “The decision to implement a ‘total siege’ by the Israeli government, in addition to the ongoing blockade, will further deny Gazan civilians essentials like food, water and electricity. This constitutes collective punishment of a population that bears no responsibility for the violence and is illegal under international law. It will not contribute to peace and security, instead, it will further fan the flames of this crisis.”
On October 9, following reports the EU would halt aid to the Palestinians, Oxfam published a press release stating, “The mere prospect of suspending aid is not only alarming but is unacceptable. Suspending aid will be a collective punishment jeopardising the lives of countless Palestinians. Europe’s commitment to provide aid to those who need it must never waver. It’s precisely the lack of decisive political action that has perpetuated this endless cycle of violence and retaliation placing civilians in the crossfire.”
On October 7, in a press release published by Oxfam, Acting Country Director in the Occupied Palestinian Territory and Israel Mustafa Tmaizi stated, “Oxfam strongly urges all parties to immediately cease all military offensives and maintain restraint to prevent further escalation of violence that will only harm innocent civilians on both sides. This surge in military escalation underscores the persistent failure of leaders to address the prolonged occupation and Gaza blockade with no meaningful measures taken.”

Samidoun

On October 15, Samidoun tweeted, “The entire problem is that ‘Israel’ is upholding ‘its values’ — that is, colonialism, genocide and Palestinian death and dispossession. Those are in fact the ‘values’ of Zionism being upheld here, and the ‘values’ for which all of the imperialist powers are vowing allegiance.”
On October 12, Samidoun published a statement: “Palestinians in Gaza are facing an overtly genocidal war carried out by the Israeli occupation regime…The German state and all imperialist powers, following the lead of U.S. President Biden, are partners not only in the defamation and dehumanization of the Palestinian people but the murderous war crimes and crimes against humanity of the occupation regime….The Palestinian resistance are the true representatives of the Palestinian people, the only shield to defend the people and their land in the face of the war crimes of the occupation regime, the complicity of the Arab reactionary states and the full-scale involvement of the Western imperialist powers, including Germany, in the targeting and destruction of Palestinian life and existence. The Palestinian people’s will to live in freedom, to resist their occupier, and to obtain their rights will not be killed by murderous bombing raids or German political repression” (emphases added).
On October 10, following a rally, Samidoun Seattle published a statement that “Demonstrators showed support for the successful Flood of Al Aqsa resistance operation and condemned the Zionist retaliatory strikes against Palestinian civilians in Gaza and 75 years of oppression, ethnic cleansing and settler colonialism…Samidoun Seattle affirms Palestinians’ right to resist, right to self-determination and right to their land as non-negotiable” (emphasis added).
On October 10, Samidoun tweeted, “The occupation forces are continuing their genocidal attacks upon the Palestinian people in Gaza, while the Palestinian resistance continues to struggle for victory and liberation.”
On October 9, Samidoun was one of the groups that led the call for people to stand in solidarity with the brave people of Palestine on the streets of New York.
On October 9, Samidoun shared a statement by the Higher National Committee of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Movement stating, “We affirm our high confidence in the Palestinian resistance, which will remain an impenetrable barrier in the face of the enemy.”
On October 8, Samidoun tweeted, “NY @GovKathyHochul is trying to stigmatize and intimidate protesters at NYC rally for justice and liberation in Palestine. Let’s make the numbers as large as possible & send a clear message, from the Governor’s office to Palestine. Times Square/1 pm/Broadwayx42nd.”
On October 7, Samidoun published a press release declaring that the “Resistance Rises toward Revolution, Return and Liberation.” According to the press release, “As the Palestinian resistance confronts occupation forces, it is critical that internationalists everywhere speak out, mobilize and act to confront the U.S.-led imperialist system, including the EU states, Britain and all complicit powers to end their ongoing crimes against the Palestinian people, and to defend the resistance. These crimes are reflected not only in the Balfour Declaration and the $3.8 billion in U.S. military aid to the occupation regime annually, but in the racist assaults on the Palestinian people in exile and diaspora throughout Europe, and especially in Germany, for speaking out and organizing to take up their role in the cause, for their return to Palestine and the liberation of their land.”
On October 7, Samidoun Deutschland tweeted, “Long live the resistance of the Palestinian people. Distributing sweets on Sonnenallee in Berlin to celebrate the victory of the resistance.”
On October 7, Samidoun Deutschland were “handing out sweets and expressing joy for the terrorist attack by Hamas and the murder of Israelis.”

Save the Children

On October 8, Save the Children published a press release claiming that “Reports of Palestinian children being killed and injured in airstrikes and Israeli children being kidnapped and held hostage have exacerbated fears of an unprecedented psychological toll. Save the Children condemns the violence, saying the scale of the attacks in Israel and Gaza is causing damage that would endure long after the immediate crisis.”
On October 7, Save the Children’s Country Director for the occupied Palestinian territory Jason Lee published a statement that, “Following an escalation in violence between Palestinian armed groups and Israeli forces in Israel and Gaza today, our teams and their families are bracing for what comes next. We know from previous experience that children will be terrified. Children have been killed and injured in every major escalation, not to mention suffering from serious mental health impacts—they’ve never emerged unscathed. All parties must show restraint and focus on keeping children and families safe and bringing an end to the fear and suffering they have endured for far too long.”

World Council of Churches

On October 9, WCC published a statement quoting the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land as saying, “As the language of ‘war’ is now being used to characterize this violence, it is important to remember that the warfare of today is not isolated…It is connected to a larger context and a longer history.”
On October 7, WCC published a press release “appeal[ing] urgently for an immediate cessation of this deadly violence, for Hamas to cease their attacks and ask both parties for de-escalation of the situation…We are deeply concerned about the imminent risks of spiralling conflict between Israel and Palestinian armed groups, and of the inevitably tragic consequences for the people of the region – Israelis and Palestinians alike – following a period of escalating tensions and violence in the West Bank and Jerusalem.”

Palestinian NGOs

Joint Statement by Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), AMAN Coalition, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), Hurryyat, Addameer, Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC), Jerusalem Legal and Human Rights Center (JLAC), MA’AN Development Center, Miftah, Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS), Heath Work Committees (HWC), Land Research Center, Women’s Affairs Technical Committee (WATC), Applied Research Institute Jerusalem (ARIJ), and Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P)

On October 9, the NGOs published a joint statement titled “PALESTINIAN CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANIZATIONS (CSO’S) CALL FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE.” According to the statement, “The long-standing blockade imposed on Gaza has created severe humanitarian crises. The blockade has left Palestinians in Gaza struggling with dire circumstances, fueling their determination to seek justice…We urgently request that the international community and United Nations take immediate and effective actions to put significant pressure on Israel occupation to stop its offensive actions in Gaza, ending forcibly displacement of people in the occupied West Bank, protect the lives of civilians, prevent any further loss of life, provide urgent humanitarian assistance to address the consequences of ongoing aggression, and halt the worsening humanitarian crisis in Gaza….Additionally, we emphasize the need for an immediate cessation of organized attacks on holy sites. We consider the flagrant unconditional support the U.S and European officials are offering Israel occupation while ignoring the plight of the Palestinian people as complicity in Israeli human rights violations and crimes against humanity, including the crime of apartheid. It is the international community’s failure to hold the Israel occupation accountable for its crimes that have led to the current situation.”

Joint Statement by Al-Haq, Addameer, Al Mezan Bisan Center for Research and Development, Hurryyat, AMAN Coalition, Human Rights and Democracy Media Center – SHAMS, Jerusalem Legal Aid Center (JLAC), PYALARA, Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, MIFTAH, Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), Union of Palestinian Women Committees (UPWC),Women’s Center for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), Women’s Studies Centre

On October 12, 26 Palestinian NGOs published a joint statement alleging, “the criminal acts committed by the Israeli military constitute prohibited collective punishment as they target Palestinian innocent civilians for prior acts attributed to Hamas. Wilful killings and collective punishment violate the Fourth Geneva Convention. By failing to stop the current attack against the Gaza Strip, Third States also violate their obligation to respect and ensure respect for international humanitarian law, and perpetuating an aggressive war, denying the Palestinian people their collective right to exercise external self-determination and independence from Israel’s occupation and settler colonial apartheid rule.”

Joint Statement by Al Mezan/BDS Movement/Bisan/MIFTAH/Al-Haq/Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)/Health Work Committees (HWC)/Addameer/Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P)/Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)/Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC)/Land Research Centre/Society of St Yves/Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)

On October 14, 15 Palestinian NGOs published a statement demanding that the “EU leadership must put an end to its double standards and complicity in Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people.” According to the statement, “For violence to end, European leaders must address and eradicate the root causes of the ongoing violence, namely, Israel’s seven-decade long settler-colonial enterprise and oppression of the Palestinian people. … The EU must intervene to ensure that Israel dismantles its discriminatory apartheid regime, including by rescinding all discriminatory laws and facilitating the right of return and to self-determination of the Palestinian people.” According to the statement,“On 7 October 2023, Israel launched a full-fledged military offensive on the Gaza Strip, aimed at erasing and reducing the territory to rubble…“The resounding silence of the EU leadership on Israeli atrocities committed in Gaza and their blind support for Israel signals that the EU is green-lighting, enabling and encouraging Israel’s military actions, which already may amount to war crimes, crimes against humanity, and incitement to commit genocide.

Joint Statement Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), Addameer, Al Mezan, Al-Haq, Hurryyat, Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P), Jerusalem Legal Aid and Human Rights Center (JLAC), Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR), PYALARA, MIFTAH, Union of Palestinian Women Committees (UPWC), Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), Bisan, Women’s Studies Centre

On October 16, 26 Palestinian NGOs sent a letter to UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Tor Wennesland expressing “deep disappointment and growing alarm at your apparent inaction in the face of the ongoing crisis in Gaza.” The letter called on Wennesland to “break your silence and take a resolute position on the current aggression in Gaza. We urge you to work tirelessly with all relevant parties to put an immediate end to this aggression and to address its severe humanitarian consequences….Furthermore, we adamantly oppose any attempts to forcibly displace Palestinian residents from their rightful lands.”

Joint Statement by Al-Haq, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), MIFTAH, Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), Bisan Center for Research and Development, Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC)

On October 17, 9 NGOs submitted recommendations for the European Parliament Motion for a Resolution on Palestine. The joint letter claims, “The deliberate failure of the international community to hold Israel responsible for its 56-year illegal occupation and aggression on the Palestinian territory, and its impunity over decades for its international crimes, including apartheid, has culminated in this week of horrific violence, war crimes and incitement to genocide.”

Joint Statement by Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Addameer, Human Rights & Democracy Media Center “SHAMS”, Palestinian Human Rights Organisation “PHRO”

On October 20, 48 NGOs published a statement calling on member states of the UN “to take immediate action to prevent the situation in Gaza from developing into the crime of genocide against Palestinian civilians… Governments from the Arab region and international community alike have failed to condemn such inflammatory and dehumanizing rhetoric, which incites to violence and genocide against the Palestinians. These governments’ silence greenlights Israel’s continued perpetration of crimes against civilians in Gaza and the West Bank, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity… The occupation authorities’ crimes against the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip over the course of more than ten days is not a new development, but instead represents an extension of Israeli policy and practice that has been ongoing for more than half a century… The Palestinian people, including refugees, are thus deprived of their basic and inalienable rights in practices amounting to the crime of apartheid, amid complete impunity.”

Al-Haq/Al Mezan/Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) (PFLP linked, Funded by the EU and individual governments)

On October 23, Al Mezan, Al Haq, and PCHR sent a letter to the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Türk. The letter calls on him “to strongly condemn the ongoing war crimes, crimes against humanity and intent to commit and incitement to acts of genocide against the Palestinian people perpetrated by Israeli authorities in the occupied Gaza Strip.” The letter claims, “Israel initiated a large-scale destructive retaliatory military campaign against Gaza, primarily and deliberately targeting civilians and civilian infrastructure, with outspoken genocidal intent… Israel, enabled by other actors, has turned Gaza into a humanitarian catastrophe… the extensive targeting and destruction of civilian property and objects in Gaza, not justified by military necessity and carried out unlawfully and wantonly, constitutes war crimes. Israel’s dehumanisation of the Palestinian people, to maintain Israeli Jewish domination over the Palestinian people, amounts to inhumane acts within the meaning of the Apartheid Convention… Over the past two weeks, Israeli government officials and military personnel have made statements indicating a clear intent to commit war crimes, crimes against humanity and incitement to genocide, using dehumanising language to describe Palestinians to justify the ongoing massacres in Gaza.”
On October 22, Al Mezan, Al Haq, and PCHR published a statement referring to “Israel’s seven-decade track record of forced displacement and ethnic cleansing of Palestinians”
On October 18, Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR published a statement alleging that “Israel Continues to Carpet-Bomb Gaza From North To South.” According to the statement, “The looming mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza requires immediate intervention by the international community to halt this forcible transfer, which may amount to a war crime and a crime against humanity.”
On October 15, Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR published a statement claiming that “Palestinians are facing an impending genocide.”
On October 12, Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR issued a report calling on the, “Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli crimes, in accordance with the Rome Statute, in particular the indiscriminate targeting of civilian homes and the killing of entire families, and to prosecute and hold accountable every individual who has carried out or ordered the commission of such crimes.”
On October 11, Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR sent an “urgent appeal” to 14 UN Special Procedures, and the UN Commission of Inquiry calling for “urgent intervention in light of Israel’s total warfare on Gaza’s civilian population since 7 October 2023.”
On October 11, Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR published a press release, “Days 3-4: Israel’s Massacre of Civilians in Gaza Continues Unabated in the Silence of the International Community.” According to the statement, “The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, Al-Haq and Al Mezan condemn in the strongest terms Israel’s aggression on Gaza and the crimes committed against civilians, including the widespread and systematic targeting of civilian structures and properties, which may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity…We call on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, based on the Rome Statute, to investigate Israeli crimes, especially targeting homes and killing entire families, and to prosecute and hold accountable every individual who has carried out or ordered the commission of these crimes.”
On October 10, Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR published a statement calling on the international community to “intervene to stop Israeli massacres in Gaza and provide protection to Palestinian civilians.” According to the statement, Al-Haq “strongly condemn Israel’s widespread and systematic targeting of civilians in the Gaza Strip, which may amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity, warranting the intervention of the international community to ensure accountability… We further condemn terrorizing the people of Gaza and displacing thousands of them from their homes, the denial of the protected civilians their right to access water and electricity. These acts are in breach of international law and are considered a collective punishment and clear war crimes… We equally renew our call on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to expedite the investigation into the situation in Palestine to hold those responsible for committing international crimes accountable.”
On October 9, Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR published a statement claiming, “The call by Israel’s Minister of Defence to cut off food, water and basic supplies necessary for human survival in a besieged area under occupation and in a context of widespread and systematic attacks against the civilian population, may meet the threshold of ‘extermination’…Given complementary calls by Israel’s Prime Minister to reduce Gaza to ‘rubble’, such a widespread and systematic attack against the civilian population may amount to a crime against humanity, and is reminiscent of the ‘scorched earth’ policy prosecuted at Nuremberg.”
On October 8, Al Mezan, Al-Haq, and PCHR sent an open letter to the UN Security Council calling for Member States to “Address Root Causes of Palestinian Struggle, and Protect the Palestinian People from Retaliatory Israeli Attacks.” According to the letter, “Member States must consider Israel’s 75-year settler-colonial apartheid regime, 56-year illegal occupation, and 16-year unlawful blockade and closure of the Gaza Strip as the root causes of the Palestinian plight….We once more reiterate our call to the UN Security Council to refer Israel’s continuing acts of aggression, including its illegal occupation of the Gaza Strip for investigation to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court.”
On October 8, Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and PCHR published a joint statement calling for “Immediate Action from the International Community to Stop Israel’s Reprisals against Palestinian Civilians.” According to the statement, “On Saturday, 7 October 2023, Palestinian armed groups engaged in an operation in response to escalating Israeli crimes against the Palestinian people…Al-Haq, Al-Mezan, and the Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) urge the international community to take immediate and urgent action to stop Israel’s revenge and reprisal against Gaza’s civilian population and civilian objects. The latest statements by the Israeli establishment quoted above portend an unprecedented number of killings, with civilians bearing the brunt. Accountability is the key to ending Israeli crimes, with Third States sharing responsibility for its consequences. We call on the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to expedite the investigation into the Situation in Palestine with full resources and onsite visits as promised in December 2022. We stress that if no immediate action is taken by the international community to hold Israel accountable for the international crimes committed against the Palestinian people, more civilian casualties will follow, and destruction will continue to take place. To this end, we call upon the UN Security Council, Third States, and UN Member States to immediately intervene with all necessary means to cease Israel’s attacks against the Palestinian people, and to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel. In line with international obligations, the international community must cooperate to bring Israel’s illegal occupation as a continuing act of aggression since 1967 to an end; ensure the dismantling of the occupying administration and the full and unconditional withdrawal of all Israeli occupying forces from the territory, and the dismantling Israel’s apartheid regime.”

Addameer

On October 14, Addameer published a statement: “we implore the International community (International organizations, European Union and its Member Estates, public institutions, and civil society alike) to take immediate and meaningful actions to end the Israeli aggression on the people in Gaza and to protect the lives of innocent civilians. We appeal all the states parties to the Geneva Conventions to put pressure on Israel to respect international law, including the principles of proportionality, necessity and distinction, to prevent harm to civilians, and to establish humanitarian corridors to ensure that medical aid and food supplies reach those in need.”
On October 12, Addammer Documentation Officer (and the daughter of PFLP Secretary-General Ahmad Sa’adat) Sumoud Sa’adat, shared a picture of PFLP central committee member and the head of the prisoners department [of the PFLP] Awad al-Sultan, and wrote, “Glory to the martyrs and mercy on their spirits.”
On October 11, Sa’adat shared a picture of a Palestinian child with the flag of Palestine, writing, “They kill us and destroy everything, but we know well that we have the right [to the land] that shall not be vanish.”
On October 8, Sa’adat, shared a picture of Ahmad Sa’adat and wrote, “You shall soon be with us, loved one,” adding a heart emoji.
On October 7, Sa’adat wrote on Facebook, “Freedom is inevitable. May you have a good morning.”

Association for Woman and Child Protection (AISHA)

On October 16, 2023, Taghreed Jomaa, Chair of the Board at Aisha Association for Woman and Child Protection, shared a Facebook post denying the Hamas massacre in Southern Israel and that bodies of victims were burnt. The post suggested, using graphic images, that Israel was trying to pass off a picture of a burnt dog as that of a burnt child. The post read: “Western support for Israel is because of a dog??? American journalist Jackson Hinkle revealed that the photo of the charred child published by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was fake. Netanyahu said that it was of an Israeli child who was burned by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas). According to a report by Fatima Triki, the American journalist revealed that the photo of the alleged Israeli child is [actually] one of a dog in a veterinary clinic that was distorted using artificial intelligence, but Western media is quick to repeat Netanyahu’s lies without verification or evidence.”

Al-Dameer

On October 12, Al-Dameer issued a statement claiming, “The continuation of the attacks against Gaza is a disgrace to humanity. Every minute that passes is equal to a human life.” According to the statement, “…Al-Dameer Foundation for Human Rights – Gaza, calls on all free peoples in the world to demand from their governments to pressure the Israeli occupation to stop the massacres and crimes of genocide against the civilian population of the Gaza Strip…Al-Dameer Foundation for Human Rights emphasizes the Palestinian people’s right for self-determination, which includes waging resistance against the occupation by all means, as this is a recognized right in international law. Al-Dameer emphasizes that targeting and killing civilians ‘genocide’, destroying their property, targeting the health sector, displacing civilians, and cutting off electricity and water is a crime and a clear and blatant violation against Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.”

Al-Haq

On October 25, the Irish Times ran an interview with Shawan Jabarin: “The fact that Palestinian civilians in Gaza are currently being killed by Israeli forces is not exceptional, says Jabarin, but ‘the scale, and the statements and the clear intention to commit crimes against humanity are’….adding that he believes the threshold for the crime of genocide has been met by Israel for its attacks on Gaza. ‘The leaders of big countries like Germany and France are supporting Israel as they close their eyes to what’s going on against Palestinians as if Palestinians are not humans; as if international law doesn’t apply to them… From our point of view, the US and other European countries are complicit in the crimes.’”
On October 24, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “‘Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination’ said the UN in 1975. Anti-Zionism is Anti-Racism (Anti-Apartheid) says logic and common sense! #GazaGenocide #EndIsraeliApartheid.”
On October 23, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “How many more souls of Palestinian children #Israeliapartheid needs to harvest for its revenge? Tell us, and we will offer ourselves for you to slay, but spare our children! #Gazagenocide.”
On October 22, Al-Haq published a statement claiming, “The deliberate failure of the international community to hold Israel responsible for its 56-year illegal occupation and aggression on the Palestinian territory, and its impunity over decades for its international crimes, including apartheid, has culminated in this week of horrific violence, war crimes and incitement to genocide.”
On October 22, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “I wrote on Israel’s skyrocketing violence over Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem & in Israel since its genocide on #Gaza, exposing that it isin’t ‘a war against Hamas’. It’s a century old settler-colonial regime against the Palestinian people.”
On October 21, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh published an article claiming, “Israel is intensifying its violence and collective punishment against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, Jerusalem, and for Palestinian citizens of Israel, exposing that its attacks are not against Hamas, but against the Palestinian people as a whole…While Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza is an opportunity for settlers to ‘eradicate’ Palestinians, it is also a chance to steal more land and expand illegal settlements… Israel continues to escalate the collective punishment of Palestinians through an aggressive mass arrest campaign since the onslaught on Gaza… Amidst this Israeli genocidal warfare, collective punishment, and repression against Palestinians all over Palestine, many Western governments have been fueling Israeli war crimes… Mainstream media, on the other hand, has also been complicit in greenlighting Israel’s genocidal war while failing to adequately cover the reality of the ongoing massacres in the wider context of apartheid, occupation and colonisation. As people of consciousness should mobilise to end the genocide in Gaza, remember that Israel’s ‘current’ war is not new… Since the Nakba of 1948, the Israeli state has been relentlessly pursuing the elimination of the Palestinian people and control of their land — and now, with the world watching, it is enacting a second Nakba.”
On October 20, Al Haq shared the twitter thread of Forensic Architecture writing that “Thread on @ForensicArchi, Al-Haq and @earshot_ngo’s preliminary analysis into the #AlAhliHospital blast in #Gaza.” The thread claims that “Preliminary analysis by FA, @alhaq_org & @earshot_ngo into the #AlAhli hospital blast in Gaza casts significant doubt on IOF claims that the source of the deadly explosion was a Palestinian-fired rocket travelling west to east… Israel has falsely claimed that ‘the IDF does not hit hospitals’. @alhaq_org has footage of an IOF strike on the Al-Ahli Hospital cancer ward on 14 Oct (see image stills), and WHO has reported 59 attacks on healthcare in Gaza and 137 across the Occupied Territory since 7 Oct…The IOF has a long history of providing false and misleading information after it has targeted and killed civilians.”
On October 20, Al Haq tweeted, “These days we mark 2 years since Israel’s unlawful criminalization of 6 civil society & human rights organisations. 2 years and we continue to document and promote the rights of the #Palestinian people. Now more than ever the voice of human rights must prevail! #EndImpunity #Gaza.”
On October 19, in an interview with Anadolu, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul claimed, “It is an Israeli usual tactic to attempt to create doubt by lying about their attacks and hoping that the media, and even politicians, will buy into those lies and disseminate them which would influence public opinion. Then these lies in a way become the truth.”
On October 19. Al-Haq published an article urging the “international community to take immediate and effective measures to hold Israel accountable for the indiscriminate targeting of civilian homes and infrastructure, the killing of entire families and the strategic deprivation and subjugation of the people of Gaza. We also call upon the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli crimes in accordance with the Rome Statute and hold accountable every individual who has incited, carried out or ordered the commission of such crimes.”
On October 19, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “You shouldn’t be getting your news from a settler colonial state, who has been massacring & ethnically cleansing Palestinians for a century!”
On October 19, Head of Legal Research and Advocacy in Al-Haq Susan Power tweeted, “Ireland needs to take action. Adopt #OccupiedTerritoriesBill. Divest Irish Strategic Investment Fund from companies fueling illegal settlement enterprise. Recognise #Apartheid as root cause, call for repeal discriminatory laws and practices. Condemn Israeli calls to Genocide.”
On October 18, Al-Haq and Global Legal Action Network (GLAN) sent a letter to UK Secretary of State for International Trade Kemi Badenoch “threat[ing] legal action” if the UK does not “suspend all weapons export licences to Israel.” According to Al-Haq’s Head of Center for Applied International Law Wesam Ahmad, “Colonialism and corporations have historically been intertwined….If the UK is ever going to break from its legacy of colonialism it cannot continue to support the ongoing colonization of Palestine.”
On October 17, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “What can be done now: 1- protest, protest, protest! 2- advoacte (sic) to: kick the Israeli ambassador from your city, stop the brutal Israeli offensive on civilians, allow humanitarian aid into Gaza, hold Israeli war criminals accountable.”
On October 17, Al Haq tweeted, “Our FA Investigative Unit geolocated earlier footage of the Israeli attack on the #Ahlihospital in #Gaza- it shows the front yard of the hospital in flames. The killing of Palestinians in #Gaza with intent to destroy the Palestinian people as a group may amount to #Genocide.”
On October 16, Al-Haq tweeted, “The G.D. of Al-Haq, @SJabaren in a press conference in Ramallah on Israeli aggression on #Gaza, made the following points:…Mr Jabarin condemned of the leadership of the EU, US and others who have facilitated Israel’s aggression on the civilian population in Gaza, and have been one-sided with complete disregard to international law, thus giving Israel the green light to commit war crimes in Gaza; Israel’s widespread, systematic & intentional indiscriminate targeting of civilians in Gaza, in addition to the intentional cut of water, electricity & other measures have reached the threshold for the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza;…”
On October 13, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “Israel’s demand for the UN to evacuate 1.1M (half of Gaza) to the South reaffirms Israel’s intention to push Gaza to Sinia-Egypte to liquidate the Palestinian cause & fully realise the Zionist settler-colonial dream of eliminating the indigenous Palestinians &stealing their land…If isn’t #EthnicCleansing, I don’t know what is!”
On October 12, Al-Haq published a statement accusing Israel of “annihilat[ing] the population of the Gaza Strip.”
On October 12, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “The Israeli occupation is turning Gaza from the world’s largest open-air prison to the world’s largest mass grave. The civilised world is watching & reminding us that #Israeliapartheid has the “right to defend itself” by burying our children under the rubble.”
On October 12, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “The world response: arms provision for more massacres and greenlighting Israel’s so called right to self-defence!”
On October 12, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “We don’t need to speak of our right to resist, for it is not a right, but a way of being & survival for Palestinians. We don’t demand our right to narrate. Our ability to narrate was never out of our hands & resistance doesn’t need the pre- approval of static int’l law codes. Its not ‘our duty to expose the bloody barbarism of zionism, their actions as a fascist state & a ruthless army are more than sufficient to undertake this task. We remain attached to our land & in our humanity, as Pal Arabs no need to prove our humanity to those who have lost it”
On October 12, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh shared a statement by the Birzeit Union of professors and employees, calling it “a powerful statement.” According to the statement, “We don’t need to speak of our right to resist, for it is not a right, but a way of being & survival for Palestinians…resistance in all its manifestations and forms don’t the pre-approval of static international law codes…An occupying power cannot claim the right to self-defense against the people under its brutal occupation…”
On October 12, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “Now, despite #IsraeliApartheid‘s cruel & inhuman assault on the civilians in #Gaza; its defence minister’s genocidal statement & his decision to cut off water, electricity & food; its the indiscriminate booming of residential areas, @KarimKhanQC hasn’t uttered a single word!“
On October 12, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “So @IsraelMFA is saying: ‘These aren’t ‘freedom fighters’. They are Hamas terrorists, but no different than ISIS terrorists.’ So who do they refer to, those burned or those who burned/targeted them? This deceptive and misleading formulation is intentional. Judging by the reactions to this tweet, people seem to believe that Palestinian fighters did this to Israelis. Yet, it seems that this car was targeted from above, and the bomb entered from the roof. Who has an Air Force (including drones) capable of that? In fact, we have seen similar footage of Israel targeting Palestinians in Gaza during its past military assaults on the Gaza Strip, not only targeting resistance members but also targeting civilians & journalists. So who are those burned/targeted? There are 2 possibilities: 1. Palestinian resistance fighters (most probably). 2. Palestinian resistance fighters and Israelis kidnapped. Notably, Israel has a military directive called “The Hannibal Directive.” The Hannibal Directive allows the #Israeliapartheid army to literally use any means necessary in order to prevent the capture of an Israeli soldier, even if it means killing the soldier…”
On October 12, in response to a tweet by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen about Russian war crimes, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “So @vonderleyen knows very well how to characterise what #IsraeliApartheid is doing in #Gaza! (listen to the first 23 sec) Why can’t she say the same about #IsraeliCrimes? Is it that the Palestinians are not the right victims for the West to be treated as equal human beings?”
On October 11, Al-Haq Head of the Training and Capacity Building Unit Ziad Hmaidan posted on Facebook, “Anyone who would watch the carnage; And remain silent; Partner in it!!” (translated from the original Arabic).
On October 11, Al Haq tweeted, “For the fifth day, the occupation forces continue to launch their attacks on the #Gaza Strip, with distructive intensity, and have resorted to bombing and destroying entire residential neighborhoods on top of their residents, while destroying streets and infrastructure, and while targeting male and female civilians and civilian objects in such a way that amounts to acts of genocide” (translated from the original Arabic).
On October 11, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “Israel is massacring 2 million Palestinians under seige (sic) & the world is encouraging it with arms provision & saluting Israel’s so called right to defence. This is not only dehumanising of Palestinians & complicity. This is partnership in genocide.”
On October 11, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “‘The process of liberation is irresistible & irreversible & in order to avoid serious crises, an end must be put to colonialism & all practices of segregation & discrimination associated therewith’ UN resolution 1514, binding on all states!”
On October 10, Al-Haq Head of the Training and Capacity Building Unit Ziad Hmaidan wrote on Facebook, “It is written in the Hadith: ‘You must wage jihad. The best jihad is preparing for war, and it is best to prepare for war in Ashkelon’.”
On October 10, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “It is outrageous to call on Palestinian resistance (permitted by international law) to CEASE its attacks while asking the occupying power ONLY to respect IHL.”
On October 10, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “Breaking: Egyptian official sources have warned against the mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza to Sinai. #IsraeliApartheid have been aiming at another Nakbe, aiming at ethically cleansing & pushing the Palestinians in Gaza & them into Sinai, Egypt.”
On October 9, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “We call on [@KarimKhanQC] the Prosecutor of the @IntlCrimCourt to expedite the investigation into the Situation in Palestine with full resources and onsite visits as promised in December 2022.” This is long overdue! #GazaUnderAttack #EndIsraeliImpunity
On October 9, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “A war criminal is proud of his war crimes bombarding innocent civilians including children! @netanyahu’s most appropriate place is behind bars in the Hague at an @IntlCrimCourt cell. The fact that @KarimKhanQC still has not issued an arrest warrant for him yet is unfathomable.”
On October 9, 2023, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Ahmed Abofoul tweeted, “Western governments’ bureaucrats could learn something from this principled and courageous statement from 31 Harvard student organizations. #GazaUnderAttack #EndIsraeliImpunity #EndIsraeliApartheid.” Abofoul shared a statement made by Harvard student groups, in which they held Israel entirely responsible for the October 7 Hamas attacks.
On October 9. Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted, “genocide in progress! Cutting water from 2 million Palestinians! And again, the world is supporting this century old brutal colonial power!”
On October 9, 2023, Head of Legal Research and Advocacy in Al-Haq Susan Power tweeted, “Urgent: Israel Announces Total Warfare on Gaza’s Civilian Population, Employing Starvation as a Weapon.”
On October 9, Al-Haq Head of the Training and Capacity Building Unit Ziad Hmaidan posted on Facebook, “To Palestine alone we give everything, until it is pleased. And for what the world wants – may it go to hell.”
On October 9, 2023, Al-Haq Head of the Training and Capacity Building Unit Ziad Hmaidan shared a picture on Facebook of a Palestinian terrorist Ibrahim Nabulsi aiming a gun, and wrote, “A message of intense love. The picture of one of the men of the ‘flood’ [referring to the name ‘the flood of Al-Aqsa’ given by Hamas to the murderous October 7 attacks], during a confrontation in one of the [israeli] bases that was stormed [by Palestinian terrorists]. This picture carries a thousand signs and meanings. Observe the picture that the sniper of the flood stuck on his rifle. Do you recognize who is in the picture? This is the intense love is for Ibrahim [Nabulsi].”
On October 8, Al-Haq published a Twitter thread calling on the UN Security Council to “address root causes & protect the Palestinian people from Israeli attacks,” including “Recognize and condemn Israel’s illegal occupation, settler-colonialism, and #apartheid regime as the root causes underpinning the continuous waves of conflict in the territory” and “Sanction Israel’s illegal occupation, apartheid and acts of aggression through the application of an arms embargo, economic sanctions and countermeasures against Israel.”
On October 7, Al-Haq Legal Researcher and Advocacy Officer Aseel Al-Bajeh tweeted Hamas head Ismail Haniyeh stating, “Leave our land, get out of our faces.’ Haniyeh. It’s Just like that.”

Al Mezan

On October 22, Al Mezan tweeted, “Today, we called on UN agencies involved in the delivery of aid and relief into #Gaza to adhere to the humanitarian principles of neutrality, independence, impartiality and humanity and categorically reject Israeli-imposed conditions aimed at forcibly transferring Palestinians… Given Israel’s track record of forced displacement & ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, that the distribution of humanitarian aid has been so far limited to southern Gaza raises concerns that relief efforts could be instrumentalized to force more Palestinians to move south.”
On October 22, Al Mezan tweeted, “In light of this, Israel’s ‘urgent warning’ and its explicit indication that it may consider the remaining civilians in northern #Gaza to be military targets should be considered a dire red flag and prompt the international community to immediately intervene… Intentionally directing attacks against the civilian population as such or against individual civilians not taking direct part in hostilities are war crimes. Willful killing of protected persons is also a grave breach of the 1949 Geneva Conventions.”
On October 21, Al Mezan tweeted, “What humanity? Palestinians in Gaza are starving and drinking polluted and contaminated water, hospitals cannot care for the thousands of wounded—all because of Israel’s total warfare.”
On October 20, Al Mezan tweeted, “URGENT: @AlMezanCenter staff member “B” has been injured in reported Israeli airstrike on Greek Orthodox Church in #Gaza City. She was among civilians sheltering in the church and was covered in debris Intentionally directing attacks against religious buildings is a war crime.”
On October 20, Al Mezan tweeted, “Update on the current water and sanitation emergency in #Gaza. On 9 October, the Israeli government decided to cut off electricity and water supply to Gaza and deliberately punish more than 2 million civilians, thereby causing a humanitarian crisis of unprecedented proportions… The international community must assume its responsibilities + urge Israel to restore water supplies to Gaza’s civilian population and allow humanitarian aid in.”
On October 20, Al Mezan tweeted, “Our calls to @IntlCrimCourt Prosecutor @KarimKhanQC: 1. Issue an official preventive statement to deter incitement to commit #genocide against the Palestinian people in #Gaza; 2. Issue arrest warrants for pending cases; 3. Visit Palestine, as pledged to do by the end of 2023.”
On October 19, Al Mezan published a statement claiming that, “destruction inflicted on al-Rimal neighbourhood is intended to cause physical, psychological and economic distress as a form of collective punishment on the people of Gaza. This constitutes a war crime, and may give rise to evidence meeting the threshold for the crime of genocide… We also call upon the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court to investigate Israeli crimes in accordance with the Rome Statute and hold accountable every individual who has incited, carried out or ordered the commission of such crimes.”
On October 16, Al Mezan tweeted, “Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed at least 1,030 Palestinian children in #Gaza. One. Thousand. Thirty. Children. None of whom have known life outside of Israel’s closure, military occupation, and apartheid. The world has failed each and every one of them.”
On October 16, Al Mezan tweeted, “In six days, Israel reportedly dropped around 6,000 bombs over two million civilians trapped in a 365km square open-air prison.”
On October 16, Al Mezan published a statement, “ The order to evacuate does not absolve Israel from its obligations and responsibilities under IHL, and Israel continues to bear obligations to protect civilians and civilian objects from indiscriminate attacks.”
On October 13, Al Mezan tweeted a statement from a staff member: “I fell asleep in 2023 and woke up in 1948. We are re-experiencing a new Nakba. The same scene, crowds walking without knowing where to go. We are already refugees. We still remember [the Nakba]. We prefer to die than to live it again.”
On October 13, Al Mezan tweeted, “Israel called on all residents of North Gaza and Gaza Districts to evacuate to Wadi Gaza. One million Palestinians. This is no real warning; this is psychological warfare to terrorize an entire civilian population and force them to leave their homes. This is another Nakba.”
On October 10, Al Mezan published a press release “condemn[ing] the mass killings of residents of the Gaza Strip.”
On October 9, Al Mezan tweeted, “BREAKING: The Israeli government has announced that it will implement a total closure of #Gaza, which means no food, fuel, or electricity for the civilian population. This is a collective punishment against two million Palestinians and a war crime of unprecedented dimensions.”
On October 8, Al Mezan published a Twitter thread claiming that “Over the past 15 years, Israel has carried out at least 6 large-scale military offensives against #Gaza. In each of them, we were on the ground and collected compelling evidence that the Israeli authorities have committed war crimes and crimes against humanity.” The thread accused Israel of “an intention to carpet bomb #Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas in the world, in full disregard for civilians and civilian infrastructure, and portend an unprecedented number of killings, with civilians bearing the brunt.”

BADIL

On October 21, BADIL tweeted, “EU’s unlimited support for Israel is not only baseless when taking the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime, political context & root causes into consideration, but constitutes an active participation in the Israeli genocidal war on Gaza.”
On October 21, BADIL tweeted, “Ignoring & omitting any mention of the 15 yr long illegal Israeli blockade on Gaza, denying Palestinian ppl’s right to self-determination & over 9 M. refugees & IDPs’ right to return confirms your bias, double standard and complicity.”
On October 20, BADIL posted a statement titled, “Under the Umbrella of the Genocidal War on Gaza The Israeli Colonial-Apartheid Regime Escalates its Suppression in the West Bank and in 1948 Palestine.”
On October 20, BADIL tweeted, “As a colonial power & oppressor of the Palestinian ppl, Israel has no justification of ‘self-defense’ in committing atrocities since 1948 until today. The renewed ethnic cleansing & displacement in Gaza, can’t be justified as ‘self-defense’ as the EU claims.”
On October 18, BADIL tweeted, “The USA, UK, EU, France, Germany, Canada, Italy and Sweden are aiders and abettors to Israel in the Crime of Genocide!” The tweet was accompanied by a picture stating, “Your hands are as bloody as Israel’s.”
On October 18, BADIL tweeted pictures of President Biden, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, French President Emmanuel Macron, and European Commission President Ursula Von Der Leyen, stating they are all “accountable for facilitating Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.”
On October 18, BADIL tweeted, “Western states are complicit in the Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip! Our message is: Resistance until liberation and return!”
On October 16, BADIL tweeted, “This is the western media’s message to the Palestinian people! Stop the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip!”
On October 16, BADIL tweeted, “Resistance until Liberation and Return!”
On October 16, BADIL tweeted, “ACT NOW! Urge your governments to demand immediate ceasefire, humanitarian & medical aid and protection of civilians! Stop the genocidal war on Gaza!”
On October 13, BADIL sent a letter to UN Secretary General António Guterres claiming, “the immediate objective behind this call is to isolate the Palestinian resistance, restrict its movement, and fake the aggressors’ appearance of being humanitarian, while the strategic goal of this brutal war remains to create a new Nakba (catastrophe) in the Gaza Strip. Therefore, the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime and the countries supporting it in the genocide of our people must cease their crimes, rather than seeking to displace the Gaza Strip’s population to Egypt in explicit violation of international law.”
On October 13, BADIL tweeted, “The Palestinian people have the right to resist the Israeli colonial-apartheid regime by all available means including armed struggle!”
On October 13, BADIL tweeted, “The Israeli colonial-apartheid regime & the countries supporting it in the genocide of our people must cease their crimes, rather than seeking to displace the Gaza Strip’s population to Egypt!”
On October 12, BADIL tweeted, “The Israeli colonial-apartheid regime – supported by the USA and the EU- is committing genocide in the Gaza Strip!”
On October 11, BADIL tweeted, “Committing genocide on Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip.. THIS IS WHAT THE USA STANDS FOR!”
On October 9, BADIL tweeted, “Impunity and double standards are no longer acceptable! In pursuit for their liberation, the Palestinian people have an equal right to resist.”
On October 8, BADIL tweeted, “Nothing about the Palestinian resistance is unprovoked! #DecolonizePalestine #FreePalestine #OngoingNakba.”

BDS Movement

On October 23, the BDS Movement tweeted, “Many companies are complicit in Israel’s genocidal war against 2.3 million Palestinians in Gaza. All peaceful popular efforts, including boycott and divestment, to hold these entities accountable for their support of Israel’s crimes against Palestinians are justified. #BDS”
On October 20, BDS published a statement titled “Let’s Keep Mobilizing to Stop Genocide: If Not Now, When?” The statement affirmed, “Recognizing the risk of genocide, UN experts have called for its prevention… Despite this televised genocidal campaign, backed by the US and European partners of Israel’s settler colonial and apartheid regime, and the complicity of western media’s relentless dehumanization of the Palestinian people.. We need to keep the pressure on! An urgent ceasefire and life-saving aid are immediately required to stop this genocide, followed by enacting international law measures to hold Israel accountable for this genocide, as well as 75 years of apartheid and settler-colonialism against Indigenous Palestinians.”
On October 19, BDS published a statement: “Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the occupied and besieged Gaza Strip.. A failure to stop the genocide unfolding in Gaza would amount to a failure of humanity at large and would signal the effective collapse of the international law system.”
On October 15, BDS published a statement titled “A Textbook Case of Genocide,” claiming “Israel’s campaign to displace Gazans—and potentially expel them altogether into Egypt—is yet another chapter in the Nakba.. But the assault on Gaza can also be understood in other terms: as a textbook case of genocide unfolding in front of our eyes… and the racist regime of Israeli apartheid… Leaders in the West reinforced this racist rhetoric by describing Hamas’s mass murder of Israeli civilians—a war crime under international law that rightly provoked horror and shock in Israel and around the world—as “an act of sheer evil”.. the assertion of “evil,” in its absolutism, elides distinctions between Hamas militants and Gazan civilians, and occludes the broader context of colonization and occupation… Indeed, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza is quite explicit, open, and unashamed.”
On October 8, the BDS Movement published a statement “support[ing] the Palestinian freedom fighters in their struggle against Israeli apartheid. We believe that the heroic actions of Hamas fighters against the occupying forces are reasonable in their quest to liberate their stolen lands. The aggression of the Zionists occupiers has been met with a deserved response – Justified use of armed resistance against the oppressors’ military and civilians. We support the armed resistance of the brave Palestinian fighters. The BDS movement calls on all its supporters to spread this information and continue to support the BDS and the Palestinian people in their efforts.”
On October 7, the BDS Movement published a statement claiming, “Western Complicity in Apartheid Israel’s Brutal Violence Heightens Palestinian Resistance & International Solidarity.” According to the statement, “Israel’s far-right government, the most racist, fundamentalist and fanatic ever, has been ruthlessly escalating its ethnic cleansing, siege, killings, incarceration, and daily humiliation of millions of Indigenous Palestinians in the occupied Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. The BDS movement strongly condemns the governments of the colonial West for, once again, hypocritically standing with apartheid Israel and duly adopting its deceptive timeline of the current ‘violence’ as if it all began this morning with the powerful armed reaction of the oppressed Palestinians in Gaza.”

Bisan Center for Research and Development

On October 18, Bisan tweeted, “Hundreds of people were killed by Israel last night, as a result of the bombing of the Baptist Hospital in the Gaza Strip. Most of the dead were children and women, some of them were found without heads. Are these the terrorists that Israel is trying to eliminate?! #StopGenocide.”
On October 13, Bisan tweeted, “What is happening in Gaza? Help spread the Palestinian narrative. Share broadly and help putting pressure to stop the genocide in Gaza! #StopIsraeliGenocide #GazaGenocide #FreePalestine #FreeGaza.”
On October 13, Bisan tweeted, “Ubai Aboudi during The Gaza Debrief: ‘Gaza run out of flour to produce bread for their people. People are drinking polluted water. The bodies of murdered people are piling up. This is a genocide of the Palestinian people.’”
On October 13, Bisan Executive Director Ubai Aboudi tweeted, “This is ethnic cleansing. This is a second Nakba. Palestinians will not allow for a second Nakba. #Stop_Genocide.”
On October 13, Bisan Executive Director Ubai Aboudi tweeted, “#ApartheidIsrael doesn’t care about its citizens held in Gaza. The indiscriminate Israeli bombing of Gaza not only killed Palestinians but also some of their own citizens being held there. #ApartheidIsrael is a danger to all life. #Stop_Genocide.”
On October 11, Bisan Board Member Nadia Habash shared pictures from a demonstration “in loyalty to the blood of the [Palestinian] journalists and in anger over the criminals who are committing massacres against journalists in Gaza,” which the former participated in. Habash wrote, “the engineers association [which Habash heads] participated in this demonstration in support of the brave resistance in the revolutionary Gaza [Strip] and to affirm the support in the Palestinian narrative and image and to protect journalists…”
On October 10, Bisan Executive Director Ubai Aboudi tweeted, “Save Gaza. #Stop_Genocide.”
On October 10, Bisan Board Member Nadia Habash shared a statement on Facebook by the Order of Engineers & Architects – Beirut, writing, “Much respect for the Order of Lebanese Engineers and the president of the union Aref Yasin for this respected position which supports our legitimate fight, and for their announcement on a demonstration in support of ‘The Al-Aqsa flood…’” According to the statement Habash shared, “The resistance against the occupation by all means is a national, human and moral duty…the Al-Aqsa flood operation, which made the enemy lose its balance is a unique development in the resistance’s methods, in this historic confrontation the resistance has won and has become more powerful…May the resisting steadfast Palestinian people have a blessing of greatness and honor, and may the resistance fighter martyrs and incent martyrs have glory and eternal life. Palestine shall remain Arab and the occupation will be gone…”
On October 10, Habash published a statement by the Professional Association Complex, which stated, “Today we look with pride on our brave resistance which is writing the most terrifying sights of strength and glory, and trampling the enemies of our nation and returning stolen rights. We congratulate this victory and attest before Allah that we are all soldiers under the command of the Palestinian resistance…Get ready, oh free man of the nation, and support your resistance in all levels, wherever you are, this is your day, a day of Allah…Long live Gaza, and long live Palestine, free and proud. May our beloved resistance go on and be unbreakable.”
On October 9, Bisan Executive Director Ubai Aboudi tweeted, “Israel is committing genocide against Gaza,” sharing a video of Israeli bombardment of terrorist infrastructure.

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

On October 18, CIHRS published a statement titled, “Massacre of Palestinian civilians outcome of unconditional international support for Israeli war on Gaza.”
On October 14, CIHRS tweeted, “Transfer/ #Forcible #displacement of population is a #Crime…#Starving Civilians as a method of warfare is a #Crime..Randomly #Bombing intensively residential areas is a #Crime…#Siege and #Collective_Punishment policies are a #Crime..Kidnapping #civilians and holding them is a #crime…#Gaza #Crimes_against_humanity #War_crimes #Protecting_civilians is a priority #Safe_paths” (translated from the original Arabic).
On October 10, CIHRS tweeted, “7 urgent demands to protect #civilians.” These demands included, “All international parties must immediately acknowledge the root causes that have resulted in this horrific explosion of violence and stop supporting Israel in its indiscriminate retaliatory attacks against civilians… Israel should immediately end its indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza and lift its total siege, which is an act of collective punishment and a clear war crime. The international community should unite to demand an end to Israel’s occupation of the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and to demand the dismantling of Israel’s apartheid regime.”
On October 13, CIHRS published a statement calling for “urgent international and Arab action to stop the bloodshed.” According to the statement, “CIHRS further reaffirms that this latest and bloodiest cycle of violence in decades is deeply rooted in the apartheid policy carried out by Israel and its 56 year-long illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories, which must be ended in order to avert more bloodshed.”
On October 10, CIHRS published a statement affirming, “It cannot be overlooked that escalating violence against Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza since the beginning of this century, which has killed thousands of Palestinian civilians, coupled with the expansion of Illegal Israeli settlements, increasing attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinian civilians and repeated threats by senior Israeli leaders to annex Palestinian territory and expel the existing Palestinian population from Jerusalem and the West Bank, has exacerbated tension in a situation where Palestinians have no path to realize their rights provided for in international law, including their right to self-determination.” According to the statement, “The international community should unite in recognizing that the only way to de-escalate the violence in Gaza, Israel and the West Bank, which threatens to develop into a catastrophic broader regional conflict, is through the impartial application of the protections of international law to all, including through the dismantlement of Israel’s apartheid. The events of October 7 have exposed the illusory plans of authoritarian Arab leaders to normalize relations with Israel, while not even considering the rights of the Palestinian people. Unlike Arab leaders, people throughout the Arab region do not condone deprivation, humiliation, imprisonment, killings, occupation, colonialism and apartheid.”
On October 9, CIHRS tweeted, “We hope that the #international_community realizes that its failure to hold #Israel accountable and bind it to international resolutions, ensure equal application of international law, and its insistence on confiscating the Palestinians’ right to self-determination are a major reason for today’s tragic situation.”

Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P)

On October 21, DCI-P tweeted, “GAZA UPDATE: At least 1,756 Palestinian children have been killed in the Israeli bombardment of the Gaza Strip. DCIP is preparing regular reports on the UN’s Children and Armed Conflict agenda & grave violations against Palestinian children.”
On October 20, DCI-P Advocacy Officer Miranda Cleland tweeted, “The Israeli military has slaughtered more Palestinian children since October 7 than it killed in ALL OTHER Israeli military offensives on Gaza since 2006 COMBINED. That is the scale of death we are dealing with. Genocide.”
On October 16, DCI-P published a statement titled, “One Palestinian child in Gaza killed every 15 minutes by Israeli forces.” According to the statement, “More than 1,000 Palestinian children in Gaza have been killed by Israeli forces since October 7 as surviving children suffer untold physical and emotional consequences as a result of intensive Israeli bombardment and unprecedented internal displacement. Israeli forces have killed a Palestinian child approximately every 15 minutes since the Israeli military unleashed a massive military offensive on the Gaza Strip on October 7 after Palestinian armed groups fired rockets toward Israel and breached the Israeli perimeter fence surrounding Gaza, launching attacks inside Israel…Under international law, genocide is prohibited and constitutes the deliberate killing of a large number of people from a particular nation or ethnic group with the aim of destroying that nation or group, in whole or in part. Genocide can result from killing or by creating conditions of life that are so unbearable it brings about the group’s destruction…”
On October 14, DCI-P Advocacy Officer Miranda Cleland tweeted, “45 Palestinian families in Gaza have no surviving members. Quite literally erased by the Israeli military’s bloodlust.”
On October 13, DCI-P published a report accusing Israel of “Genocide in Gaza.” The report quoted DCI-P Attorney and Senior Policy Adviser Brad Parker, who claimed, “‘Israeli officials’ statements combined with widespread and systematic attacks carried out by Israeli forces in the Gaza Strip raise extreme concern that this is now a campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people…Israeli military assaults have reached an intensity where they are seemingly intended to deliberately kill large numbers of Palestinians in Gaza.” The report also quoted DCI-P Accountability Program Director Ayed Abu Eqtaish, “The international community, led by the U.S. and European Union, are actively enabling the Israeli military to carry out a second Nakba and eradicate the Palestinian people” (emphases added).
On October 13, DCI-P Advocacy Officer Miranda Cleland tweeted a picture of a handshake between President Isaac Herzog, European Parliament Roberta Metsola, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, writing, “If you’re lucky maybe the International Criminal Court will let you all use this picture as a joint mugshot.”
On October 12, DCI-P Advocacy Officer Miranda Cleland tweeted, “More people than ever are cheering for the genocide of Palestinians. And we’ve found out so quickly that so many so-called allies were never truly down for Palestinian liberation. But many more everyday people than the media would have us think are doing what they can” (emphases added).
On October 11, DCI-P Advocacy Officer Miranda Cleland tweeted, “If there is one thing I’ve learned at @DCIPalestine it’s that all the dead Palestinian babies in Gaza won’t humanize Palestinians to the Israeli war machine, funded by the US government, cheering on their killings. 326 dead Palestinian children in just five days.”
On October 10, DCI-P Accountability Program Director Ayed Abu Eqtaish claimed, “Rather than deescalating hostilities to rein in civilian harm, the international community is actively bolstering Israeli war efforts through increased military funding and weapons despite Israeli officials declaring their intention to commit war crimes and crimes against humanity. Systemic impunity must end.”
On October 9, DCI-P posted a statement failing to mention Hamas’ involvement or the kidnapping of Israeli children: “as hostilities continue as Israeli forces unleashed a massive military offensive on the Gaza Strip on Saturday after Palestinian armed groups fired rockets toward Israel and breached the Israeli perimeter fence surrounding Gaza early on October 7, launching attacks inside Israel…Israeli forces routinely use explosive weapons in densely populated civilian areas with complete disregard for the indiscriminate effects…Right now, Israeli forces are killing Palestinian children at an unprecedented rate over the past 48 hours as Israeli forces and warplanes target Palestinian armed group leaders taking no precautionary measures and seemingly intending to disproportionately kill and injure civilians and destroy civilian objects…. investigations and evidence collected by DCIP regularly suggest that Israeli forces use lethal force against Palestinian children in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings.”
On October 9, DCI-P Advocacy Officer Miranda Cleland tweeted, “Nearly 100 Palestinian children have been confirmed killed since Saturday morning between the Gaza Strip and West Bank. Children who never knew another life besides Israeli occupation, bombs, guns, and siege. War crime after war crime emboldened by the West.”
On October 8, 2023, DCI-P Advocacy Officer Miranda Cleland tweeted, “Israeli forces, for decades, have killed Palestinian children with complete impunity, often using weapons sourced from the US. @DCIPalestine documents their deaths in hopes of getting justice & accountability. Palestinian children deserve to grow up without a boot on their neck.”
On October 8, 2023, DCI-P Advocacy Officer Miranda Cleland tweeted, “It is beyond insulting and blatantly racist to assume Palestinians resisting Israeli colonization & trying to take back their land will result in anti-Semitic attacks in DC. What a joke” (emphasis added). Cleland was responding to a statement by the Mayor of DC condemning the Hamas attacks and committing to protect the Jewish community in DC.

Hebron Rehabilitation Committee

On October 15, Hebron Rehabilitation Committee published a statement claiming, “once the incidents and events started happening in Gaza Strip, the occupation authorities accelerated exploiting opportunities to execute its Judaization settlement scheme through forcing a curfew on the population of the blockaded areas and isolating them.”

Independent Commission for Human Rights

On October 21, ICHR published a statement “warn[ing] of the looming danger of further atrocities committed by the Israeli occupation against innocent civilians and critical civilian infrastructure.” The statement also called on the UN to “shoulder their responsibilities and take swift, resolute actions to deter the Israeli occupation from perpetrating further massacres against innocent civilians.”
On October 11, ICHR sent a letter to the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court demanding, “In light of the imminent humanitarian crisis in Gaza, we urgently request a preemptive statement from your office regarding the war crimes being committed by Israel.”
On October 10, ICHR shared the statement of the Arab Network of National Human Rights Institutions “condemn[ing] the inhumane acts being perpetrated by the Israeli occupation forces against Palestinian civilians in Gaza, including acts of killing, shelling, and the destruction of homes, residential buildings, and civil institutions.”
On October 9, ICHR sent a letter to UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territory occupied since 1967 Francesca Albanese, the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, and other UN Special Rapporteurs to “take all means to place pressure on Israel, the Occupying Power, to cease military attacks on Gaza and its civilian population, and to put an end to violations of international law.” According to the letter, “Since October 7, 2023, when Palestinian factions in Gaza launched the ‘Al-Aqsa Storm’ operation targeting settlements near Gaza, Israel has responded with intense retaliatory missile attacks on densely populated areas…The root causes of Israel’s actions and crimes against Palestinians stem from its discriminatory policies based on the Apartheid. Addressing these root causes, including ending the occupation, colonial settlement, and racial segregation, while acknowledging the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, including their right to self-determination, are imperative actions that the international community must take. It is essential to exert pressure on Israel, which has historically evaded accountability for its systematic assaults on Palestinians.”
On October 8, ICHR published a statement “strongly condemn[ing] the grave violations of human rights perpetrated by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian civilians in Gaza. These violations encompass acts of killing, bombing, destruction of homes and residential structures, targeting civil institutions, obstructing the entry of essential supplies, and cutting off electricity to Gaza. These actions persist amidst the enduring presence of a blockade imposed on the Strip for more than 17 years. ICHR sounds the alarm about the possibility of the Israeli government exploiting certain international endorsements to commit further massacres against Gaza’s civilian population and implement widespread displacement operations.”

International Solidarity Movement (ISM)

On October 13, ISM published a “call to action,” urging people to “Contact your representatives NOW and demand that they put an end to the Israeli government’s blatant violations of international humanitarian law and end the oncoming ground invasion.”
On October 9, ISM published a statement calling on “everyone in solidarity with Palestine to act immediately to stop Israeli massacres by organising demonstrations, and pickets and direct actions, organising boycott campaigns in line with the Palestinian call for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions against Israeli apartheid. We also call for people to contact their representatives, and lobby them to condemn the colonial policies of the Israeli state.” According to the statement, “On Saturday Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu declared that Israel was at war. What this really means is that for the first time in decades, Palestinians are not the only ones facing the consequences of Israel’s colonial apartheid state. The International Solidarity Movement joins Palestinians and Palestine solidarity activists and organisations all around the world in restating that the root cause of the current violence is Israeli occupation and settler colonialism. Until the oppression of Palestinians comes to an end, Israel is responsible for the death and misery of Palestinians and Israelis. Governments and companies that directly support Israeli apartheid and military occupation, and the international community that fails to react to constrain Israeli terror, also share responsibility for the continuing violence.”

Kairos Palestine

On October 21 Kairos published a statement, “This war must stop. It’s a crazy war. It’s a crazy revenge. Exterminating or expelling two million people… What is required is justice and peace for a city that has been under siege and collective punishment for more than sixteen years, and instead of liberating and creating justice and peace in it, it is being exterminated.”
On October 11, Kairos published a statement claiming, “As for the root causes driving the war, they are the permanent state of terror that we Palestinians live in daily from the rule and tyranny of the Israeli occupation army, and the absolute insistence by successive Israeli governments, especially this government, that there is no Palestinian state, and that the Palestinian people have no right to self-determination.. It is a demand for justice and freedom. It is a demand for independence in a recognized state with Arab Jerusalem as its capital… Do not think that your comprehensive and destructive war on Gaza is the solution. Do not think that your ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians in Gaza is the solution!”

Masar Badil

On October 13, Masar Badil issued a statement titled, “The Battle of October: Stop U.S./Israel Genocide in Gaza – Support the Palestinian People’s Resistance.” According to the statement, “Since October 7, the alliance represented by the United States, Israel, Britain and European countries, along with their subordinate Arab reactionary regimes, has been exposed by the initiative and achievements of the Palestinian resistance – and this camp is now responding with a genocidal assault on the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.…What is happening today in Palestine is genocide and ethnic cleansing at the hands of the Israeli occupation forces…This is the time to support the Palestinian armed forces and the Lebanese resistance. This is the time to defend Jerusalem, Al-Aqsa Mosque and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre as they are not only sacred and holy places; they are also the manifestations of our history, culture and existence…Do not wait until after the battle is done” (emphasis added).
On October 9, Masar Badil published a statement claiming that “The Palestinian decision is in the hands of the resistance, and the West will pay a high price for its crimes in Gaza.” Masar Badil called on “Palestinian, Arab and Muslim youth and all of the forces of liberation and people of conscience in the world, to participate actively in the Battle of the Al-Aqsa Flood by defending our people in the Gaza Strip by all means available, including organizing popular demonstrations, occupying and beseiging the embassies of the Zionist regime, and liberating the Palestinian embassies from the agents of the puppet ‘Palestinian Authority.’”
On October 7, Masar Badil published a press release calling on “organizations and supporters, the masses of our Palestinian people, supporters of the resistance in exile and diaspora, allies from the liberation forces and movements, and solidarity committees with the Palestinian people everywhere, to express their support for the heroic Palestinian resistance, raise the flag of Palestine and the banners of resistance, and organize popular, political and media demonstrations and events to expose the Zionist crimes against our people in occupied Palestine, and to support the “Al-Aqsa Flood” operation announced by the Commander-in-Chief of the Izz al-Din al-Qassam Brigades, Brother Mohammed al-Deif.”

Miftah

On October 24, Miftah tweeted, “While the focus is on #Gaza, Israeli state-sanctioned settler terrorism is rapidly escalating in the occupied West Bank. Settlers are using this period as an opportunity to kill more Palestinians and steal more land.”
On October 23, Miftah tweeted, “Nabila Nawfal, born on October 6th and killed on October 13th. Israel killed a 1-week-old soul. #GazaGenocide”
On October 23, Miftah tweeted, “There are currently around 50,000 pregnant Palestinian women in Gaza who have nowhere safe to stay and give birth. Many already gave early birth in the streets while being displaced from early bombing. #GazaGenocide”
On October 21, Miftah tweeted, “STOP THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION AND FACILITATE UNCONDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID. STOP THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION AND FACILITATE UNCONDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID. STOP THE ISRAELI AGGRESSION AND FACILITATE UNCONDITIONAL HUMANITARIAN AID. 🚨🚨🚨 #GazaGenocide”
On October 21, Miftah tweeted, “In just 2 weeks, Israel has killed 4,385 Palestinians in #Gaza, including 1,756 children & 967 women among other civilians, in addition to 13,561 wounded. 70% of casualties are women, children and elderly. Israel is deliberately targeting civilians. Stop #GazaGenocide.”
On October 20, Miftah tweeted, “’It’s not aid that people need. We need to lift the siege….We need to end the occupation.’ @DrHananAshrawi speaks with @ABC about the ongoing Israeli bombardment on Palestinians in Gaza and what needs to happen to end this genocide.”
On October 9, MIFTAH tweeted, “Approximately 74,000 displaced Palestinians in #Gaza are taking refuge in @UNRWA schools after Israel bombed their homes. Israel also targeted those UNRWA shelters with aerial bombardment. War crime after war crime. #GazaUnderAttack.”
On October 8, MIFTAH tweeted, “Israel is targeting medical staff, ambulances and hospitals in addition to homes and shelters. No where is safe in the largest open air prison. #GazaUnderAttack.”

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)

On October 18, PCHR Director Raji Sourani tweeted, “Shame on US President Biden to cover up such large scale massacres and be complicit in doing the second Nakba for Palestinians. We are the stones of the valley. No power on earth will uproot us from our land again. Palestinians have dignity and pride.”
On October 10, PCHR published a press release “condemn[ing] the mass killings of residents of the Gaza Strip.”
On October 9, PCHR published a press release claiming, “For the past 48 hours, the Israeli military has carried out a relentless series of attacks against the civilian population in Gaza, destroying dozens of family homes, residential and commercial buildings—often without issuing precautionary warnings—and wiping out entire Palestinian families…Further, the dehumanising language by Israel’s Minister of Defence, a senior ranking government minister, calling the Palestinian people ‘human animals’ comprises a particularly egregious form of inciteful invective, employed to degrade and encourage the commission of international crimes.” (emphasis added)
On October 8, 2023, PCHR issued a statement “emphasiz[ing] that these Israeli airstrikes are retaliatory widely targeting civilian objects. PCHR also warns that the Israeli threats and conduct in field would inflict further Palestinian civilian casualties and cause mass forcible displacement across the Gaza Strip…PCHR stresses that the Israeli airstrikes violating the international humanitarian law principles (distinction and proportionality,) the strikes targeting densely-populated areas, and the use of weapons as collective reprisals constitute grave breaches of the four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and amount to war crimes. PCHR calls upon the international community to take immediate action to end the Israeli crimes and prevent any further deterioration of the humanitarian conditions.”
On October 7, 2023, PCHR Fundraising and Program Officer Feda’a Murjan posted on Facebook, “We will truly step in our land. Allah, you are our protector and supporter.”

Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS)

On October 17, PMRS published a statement declaring: “At the time of writing, PMRS has in the last hour learned of the Baptist Hospital in Gaza being bombed. It has been confirmed that over 500 have been killed and hundreds more injured. The act of attacking a hospital or any healthcare infrastructure or personnel is a grave violation of international law and can constitute a war crime under article 8 of the Geneva Convention.” According to the statement, “There can be no justification for the slaughtering of over 1000 children. There is no justification for withholding of humanitarian aid or bombing the road to be used for said aid to reach millions of Palestinians in Gaza. There can never be a justification for genocide.”
In televised statement broadcasted on Wattan on October 15, PMRS President Mustafa Barghouti claimed, “The Palestinians are subjected to a new Nakba now, one that is more dangerous and worse than the 1948 Nakba…Israel, with full support from the US and unfortunate backing from western countries, is committing four dangerous actions against the Palestinian people: Dehumanizing Palestinians, collective punishment, ethnic cleansing and genocide. ‘Israel’ is attempting to dehumanize and demonize Palestinians, and falsely claim that Hamas is ISIS, by various lies which some media outlets have retracted from, as the CNN reporter who apologized who spreading fake news about the beheading of Israeli children, in addition to the LA Times newspaper that apologized for its false claims on incidents on rape…Barghouti warned from black propaganda that is spread by ‘israel’ and fabrication of news in order to commit war crimes against the Palestinian people…’Israel’ is exploiting current events to carry out schemes that it has been planning for the past years…”
On October 15, PMRS Director Mustafa Barghouti tweeted, “All efforts must be directed to stop the aggression and thwart the ethnic cleansing plot.”
On October 14, PMRS published a statement calling on “the entire international community, those directly involved and those who are not, to speak up on behalf of Palestinians, especially those in Gaza who, as we write, are victims of war crimes. PMRS requests this community to not be distracted by the western media maelstrom caused by blatant Israeli propaganda designed to dehumanize Palestinians and to remain focused on the issue of human rights.” According to the statement, “Since the 7th of October, we have collectively witnessed genocide in action and the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza…We need the international community to stand against the documented crimes against humanity and to call an end of the apartheid and persecution.”
On October 11, PMRS published a statement claiming, “Silence is complicity. Silence is violence. Silence won’t end the ongoing cycle of violence and it won’t end the illegal occupation and apartheid.”
On October 11, in an interview with Democracy Now, PMRS Director Mustafa Barghouti declared, “Netanyahu is saying that Palestinians should be evicted from Gaza. He’s preparing for a third war crime, which is ethnic cleansing of the population of Gaza…These people, these criminals who committed ethnic cleansing against 70% of the Palestinian people in 1948, 70% of the population of Gaza were among these people who were evicted from Palestine. Now they are subjected to the possibility of another transfer, another kind of ethnic cleansing, that would empty Gaza so that Netanyahu can annex it…the solution is to end the Israeli illegal occupation of Palestinians, that the solution is to stop what has become the worst system of apartheid ever, much worse apartheid than what revealed in South Africa at one point of time.”
On October 10, PMRS Director Mustafa Barghouti published a statement “against the plot of the government of Benjamin Netanyahu to carry out the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip…It is clear that he is aiming to repeat the massacres of the Zionist movement in 1948, which he aims to achieve through barbaric and indiscriminate airstrikes on civilians in their homes and to force them to flee or die.” Barghouti called on the international community to “put a halt to its double standards that allow for the Netanyahu government and his army to perpetrate gregious war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
According to Wattan, during a demonstration held “in support of the resistance in Gaza” on October 10, PMRS President Mustafa Barghouti said, “These marches affirm the Palestinian people’s support in the resistance and that the Palestinian people is united wherever it is.”
On October 8, PMRS published a statement claiming that “Palestinians have been living under occupation for 75 years and military rule since 1967. The international community including the ICC has opened investigations into the serious crimes committed by Israel, including crimes against humanity- Apartheid and Persecution. Palestinians have been subjected to systematic discrimination, repression, ethnic cleansing, and daily human rights abuses. All Palestinians under international law, have the right to protection, and Israel as an occupying power must ensure that protection.”
On October 7, in an interview with Al Jazeera, Director of PMRS Mustafa Barghouti stated, “This initiative by the resistance that we have seen is a response to Israeli settlers terror that has been taking place all over the West Bank with the protection of the Israeli army. It is a response to the fact that the Israeli army and the settler terrorists killed 248 Palestinians, including 40 children. It is a reaction to the attacks on the Aqsa mosque and the process of judaization of not only Jerusalem and the Aqsa mosque but the whole of the West Bank…but maybe politically it is also a response to those who thought that through normalization with the Arab countries they can liquidate and marginalize the Palestinian issue. It is coming back in the most possible forcible way…It shows that Israel is not almighty and also it shows what Palestinians can do when they are determined to resist for their freedom…”

Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO)

On October 22, PNGO published a statement calling on the “Secretary-General of the United Nations to bear the responsibility to protect the lives of citizens who are victims of genocide at the hands of the occupying state.”
On October 22, PNGO tweeted, “The #Israeli aggression on #Gaza has claimed the lives of 4,651 martyrs, including 1,873 children, 1,023 women, and 187 elderly individuals. 14,245 civilians are left to bear the burden of various injuries. Civil society urges an immediate end to the aggression by Israel.”
On October 22, PNGO tweeted, “An Israeli air strike bombed a site near an #UNRWA school in Khan Yunis, severely injuring and claiming the lives of innocent civilians, children, and babies. Civil society demands an end to #Israeli #aggression on #Palestinians and the unjustified murder of innocent civilians.”
On October 21, PNGO tweeted, “20 trucks of aid is far from enough for the 2.3 MILLION people in the besieged enclave of #Gaza. The international community must act immediately to establish additional humanitarian aid.”
On October 20, PNGO tweeted, “Video from Al-Quds #Hospital in the Gaza Strip, who have been asked to evacuate and threatened to be bombed. Targeting a medical facility is a war crime. Civil society urges that the international community demand an end to the #GENOCIDE of the Palestinians #GAZAUNDERATTACK”
On October 19, PNGO tweeted, “Over 4,200 Palestinians killed and 13,000 wounded in the past 12 days. It is imperative that the global community unites to condemn actions that constitute violations of international humanitarian law, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. #GAZAUNDERATTACK #GENOCIDE #ETHNICCLEANSING.”
On October 17, PNGO tweeted a quote by PMRS Director Mustafa Barghouti, “#Israeli jet fighters shelled the Baptist hospital in #Gaza killing over 500 #Palestinians and injuring hundreds of civilians. World leaders must condemn these atrocities and exercise immediate pressures on Israel to stop the genocide of Palestinians.”
On October 17, PNGO tweeted, “The targeting of children and civilians in Rafah by the #Israeli occupation is a clear violation of international law and a heinous war crime. The international community must unite and demand an end to Israeli aggression and the genocide of #Palestinian Gazans. #GazaUnderAttack.”
On October 17, PNGO tweeted, “Over 3,500 Palestinians killed and 10,000 wounded in the past 10 days. It is imperative that the global community unites to condemn actions that constitute violations of international humanitarian law, genocide, and ethnic cleansing. #GAZAUNDERATTACK #GENOCIDE #ETHNICCLEANSING.”
On October 15, PNGO issued a statement calling to, “secure the protection of the health sector in the Gaza Strip and save it. PNGO holds international parties responsible for saving the health situation, and for protecting medical teams in the [Gaza] Strip, and in order to strive with all available ways to stop this Israeli attack against the Gaza Strip and the Palestinian people…and protecting civilians from the atrocities of the hostile war carried out by the occupation war, during which it is violating the principles of international law, and committing war crimes under international covenants and laws.
On October 15, PNGO tweeted, “Civil society demands that global action be taken to end the humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Over 2,300 Palestinians killed and 9,000 injured in just these past 8 days. The globe must unite in condemnation of genocide and ethnic cleansing. #GazaUnderAttack #EthnicCleansing”
On October 13, PNGO published an infographic “Warn[ing] Against Calls For The Evacuation of Palestinian Citizens Outside Of Palestine as this inadvertently aids Israel in their aggression against Palestinians and the ethnic cleansing of the Gaza Strip. The primary focus of international institutions should be to end the aggression and siege on the Gaza Strip.”
On October 12, PNGO tweeted, “Civil society demands that third states demonstrate respect for international law. Providing military equipment to Israel amid war crimes is absolutely unacceptable. The relentless war crimes must cease immediately to uphold international laws. #GazaUnderAttack #GenocideinGaza”
On October 12, PNGO tweeted, “Israel’s deployment of white phosphorous on Gazan civilians flagrantly violates the Geneva Convention, amounting to a war crime. The international community must unite and demand that Israel uphold international law and put an end to the genocide. #GazaUnderAttack #GenocideinGaza”
On October 11, PNGO tweeted, “IOF soldiers filmed deliberately cutting off water supply to over 2 million Palestinians in Gaza. This is the face of oppression. Collective punishment is an unequivocal war crime under international law. Stop the genocide of Palestinians! #GazaUnderAttack”
On October 8, PNGO published a statement demanding “National unity to combat the challenges and to supply international protection to the Palestinian people.” According to the statement, “What is happening today in Gaza and the Palestinian West Bank, including Jerusalem, is nothing but a continuation of what the occupying state is planning through settlement expansion and daily killings, the Judaization of Jerusalem and targeting of Islamic and Christian holy sites…the world sees with double standards, especially the American position, who is the occupation’s partner in its aggression…and the European position as well, which is placing the blame on the Palestinian people. In the past two days an aggressive war has been taking place as part of the occupying state’s efforts to have revenge and expand the circle of massacres against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip. We in PNGO salute this honorable image that our people are sketching” (emphases added). The statement further called for the world to “see the true reality, which is that the Palestinian people have been facing, for more than 75 years, a racist, fascist occupation…The Palestinian people are living in a national liberation phase and do not deal with the illusions of peace that is based on imposing a fait accompli. They are resisting this with all valor and sacrifice. The world must wake up today in order to achieve the rights [of the Palestinians] by prosecuting the occupying state, boycotting it, and imposing sanctions on it, and by delegitimizing its crimes until achieving the legitimate national rights of the Palestinian people and ending the occupation in all its forms” (translated from the original Arabic by NGO Monitor, emphases added).

Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC)

On October 18, PARC published a statement calling on “international community, international organizations, and human rights advocates to take swift and decisive action to stop the massacres and egregious violations committed by the Israeli occupation against Palestinian civilians. The most recent and horrifying of these crimes was the deliberate targeting by the Israeli occupation of Al-Ahli Hospital in the Al-Zaitoun neighborhood of Gaza City, resulting in a tragic loss of over 500 lives, with a significant number of victims, mostly women and children. These events constitute grave human rights violations and a crime against humanity that warrants international investigation and immediate measures to halt these heinous acts, hold the perpetrators accountable, and ensure the protection of Palestinian residents.”
On October 10, PARC posted a statement calling to “stop the Israeli occupation’s massacres against our people in the Gaza Strip.” The statement claimed, “Gaza, as we all know and seen, has been living in the world’s largest open-air prison for the last 16 years! They suffer regular attacks from the Israeli Zionist army.…The massacre committed in the Gaza Strip is horrific…Time has come, for all people around the world to stand upright in the face of injustice, aggression and occupation.”

Sabeel

On October 12, Sabeel held a “worship service” for “the end of the occupation, an end of apartheid, and an end of violence.”
On October 11, Sabeel published a statement that claims “It has been 75 years since the Nakba, 57 years of brutal military occupation in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and 16 years since the suffocating military blockade of Gaza began. In light of this seemingly endless march of dispossession and death, armed Palestinian resistance groups initiated an unprecedented assault, including the tragic massacre of Israeli civilians. Responding, the Israeli government has engaged in airstrikes, indiscriminate bombing campaigns, and responsive actions that amount to war crimes-accompanied by genocidal rhetoric-against the civilian population in Gaza….As we experience and attentively keep track of events as they unfold, it is pivotal to remember: Palestinians have been under attack, suffering dispossession and dehumanization from Zionism, for over 75 years. The continuation of Israel’s policies related to displacement, apartheid, and occupation has been facilitated by the backing of several dominant global powers, notably the U.S., which remains deeply involved in this conflict….The suffering over these years is significantly tied to the role of the international community in this turmoil, most especially the United States alongside global powers like the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and others… The longstanding policies of displacement, military occupation, and apartheid by the Israeli government must be dismantled, but not at the cost of our values and humanity… Palestinians call for a fair resolution to the injustice of the Nakba, an end to the 1967 military occupation, and an end to the apartheid system.”
On October 8, Sabeel published a statement that “Israel declared ‘Operation Swords of Iron,’ involving a brutal and continuous aerial attack on Gaza that claimed hundreds of lives….We lift up all innocent people in particular the people of Gaza who are vulnerable and helpless to the Israeli airstrikes. May we remember that the recent events are connected to the long history of the Nakba and Israeli systematic oppression against the Palestinian people.”

Stop the Wall

On October 21, Stop the Wall tweeted, “Israeli apartheid forces bombed a mosque in Jenin camp, Two Palestinians were killed and several others were injured. the bombing of mosques, churches, and hospitals is something we will see …frequently as part of Israel’s systematic policies of genocide and ethnic cleansing.”
On October 14, Stop the Wall tweeted, “800 children were killed since the start of the genocide in Gaza. How many more should it take for the world to take action and stop the genocide in Gaza.”
On October 11, Stop the Wall tweeted, “War on Gaza did not start on 7. Oct. 2023 it is no war, it is no revenge. It is a Genocidal policy that apartheid Israel planned and implemented for decades.”
On October 10, Stop the Wall tweeted, “Targeting journalists is systematic targeting of the Israeli apartheid forces to cover the genocides and massacres they carry out in the aggression against Gaza.”
On October 8, Stop the Wall published a statement claiming that “Israel said it declared war yesterday – but it is waging a daily brutal war against the Palestinian people and has imposed its vicious apartheid regime for every day over the last 75 years. This is why we hold Israel fully responsible for each and every killing over the last days across historic Palestine. This is why the only ethical and effective way forward is to stop Israel, its crimes against the Palestinian people, and international complicity with it now.”

Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

On October 21, UAWC issued a statement titled “The Bleak Intersection of Genocide and Food Inaccessibility.” The statement claimed, “The relentless assault that Israel launched on October 7th marked the beginning of a harrowing chapter for the Gaza Strip…Demanding that the Israeli occupation be held accountable for its crimes and ensuring that those responsible for acts of extermination and the destruction of life’s essentials in Gaza face justice.”
On October 16, UAWC published a statement claiming, “ISRAEL DEPRIVES GAZA OF WATER, MANUFACTURES CATASTROPHE.” According to the statement, “Water is a fundamental human right, essential for life and dignity. However, for the residents of Gaza, access to clean water is an urgent crisis, as Israeli settler colonialism systematically restricts their access…Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, which began on October 7th and has involved its launching of hundreds of airstrikes on Gaza, has created an ongoing and rapidly deteriorating humanitarian catastrophe…The catastrophic situation in Gaza is not a product of recent events alone but has been manufactured by decades of Israeli occupation and injustice, including total control of water resources” (emphasis added).
On October 13, UAWC Project Coordinator Moayyad Bsharat posted on Facebook, ”At central campaigns, standing on the sidelines is considered betrayal…The entity [i.e. Israel], aided militarily by America, Britain, Germany and France, have decided to erase Gaza from the face of the map of Palestinian existence, everyone sees this and does not lift a finger…What Gaza [i.e. Hamas] has accomplished is equivalent to what all the Arabs together in their wars against the entity have done since 1948 until today…#Al-Aqsa_flood#Gaza_shall_not_be_defeated.”
On October 13, UAWC Project Coordinator Moayyad Bsharat posted on Facebook, “What is required today from the [Palestinian] Authority is simple, really simple, that it responses, in an assertive fashion on the countries that support the Zionist terror and make it clear for them what the position of the Palestinian people is about self-determination by all means available…We Palestinian are facing a mechanism of Zionist terror and its western supporting tools. Our Arab Palestinian people shall have victory no matter the time it will take” (emphasis added).
On October 13, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr posted on Facebook, “We are living through an action of ethnic cleansing and genocide accompanied by stravation and severing all capabilities of life from water to electricity and fuel…what we are living through is more powerful and stronger than the holocaust which the Zionists talk about…”
On October 13, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr posted on Facebook, “Freedom is a tree that is watered with blood. May Allah accept your work, oh heroes. #Al-Aqsa_flood.”
On October 12, UAWC’s Director of Advocacy Saad el-Din Ziada posted on Facebook, “All of Palestine is ours alone. All the land, water and sky. We are still alive and full of hope.”
On October 11, UAWC Project Coordinator Moayyad Bsharat posted on Facebook, “Is there anything more beautiful than traveling by air from Lebanese airspace to Israel airspace with a glider?! [i.e. addressing the threat posed by Hezobllah to Israel] May Allah be pleased with them. #Gone_be_the_humiliation [a shi’ite phrase said in times of waging war].”
On October 11, UAWC published a statement claiming, “For five days, Israel has attacked Gaza with the aim of total destruction, and the situation is at an unprecedented level of urgency. Israel’s actions have amounted to a humanitarian catastrophe of unfathomable proportions…Israel is indiscriminately decimating hospitals, schools, mosques, markets, and entire neighborhoods…This calculated assault severs Gazans’ only means of escape from ceaseless bombings or access to essential humanitarian aid…Israel’s assault is deliberately destroying any infrastructure that allows Gazans to support themselves. Vital agricultural and fishing infrastructure, crucial for food production, have been mercilessly attacked…Israel’s strategy aims to ensure that those who survive the bombs are condemned to a future without sustenance…It is the moral and legal obligation of the international community to intervene and end this crisis immediately. Food, as a basic necessity, must be allowed to reach the people of Gaza, and the deliberate targeting of civilian infrastructure must cease without delay” (emphasis in original).
On October 10, UAWC’s Director of Advocacy Saad el-Din Ziada posted on Facebook, “I support the resistance. It is our legitimate and natural right.”
On October 10, UAWC’s Director of Advocacy Saad el-Din Ziada posted on Facebook, “Do not hesitate in supporting the resistance, even by praising. It is our right and the protector of our dignity and dreams.”
On October 8, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr posted on Facebook ,”As long as the resistance is well, we are in the best shape.”
On October 8, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr posted on Facebook, “The occupation is evacuating the settlements surround the Gaza Strip, with the knowledge that they are [situated on] lands belonging to the Gaza Strip and a part of historic Palestine which was occupied by Zionist gangs.”
On October 8, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr posted on Facebook, “Sderot is the city of horror for the occupiers.”
On October 8, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr shared an illustration of a Hamas fighter gliding in above the Dome of the Rock, and wrote, “We_will_get_to_Jerusalem.”
On October 7, UAWC Project Coordinator Houssam Abuabdou posted on Facebook, “October 7 has witnessed the power and will of a great people.”
On October 7, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr posted on Facebook, “Complete the history and change the geography, it is the great October, October of victories.”
On October 7, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr posted on Facebook, “By ground, sea and air, our boys are beautiful.”
On October 7, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr shared a picture of a stolen IDF vehicle in the hands of cheering Gazans and wrote, “Write_it,_oh_makers_of_history.”
On October 7, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr shared videos from Hamas’ October 7 attacks and wrote, “Write_history.”
On October 7, UAWC’s head of the Gaza Fisherman Committee Zakaria Bakr shared a video of Hamas fighters killing and dragging Israeli soldiers, writing, “Until now they are in a blunder. They do not know that the number of their prisoners is 50 and not 30, and not even 200,” adding a laughing emoji.
On October 8, UAWC’s Director of Advocacy Saad el-Din Ziada posted on Facebook, “The only constant is that the resistance is a legitimate right and resisting the occupation is a duty under international law and international legislation.”

Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC)

On October 10, UPWC published a statement affirming, “The entry of the Palestinians into part of their occupied territories comes from the belief of the Palestinian people in their right to freedom, justice, and self-determination as a people subjected to the authority of the Zionist occupation” (emphasis added).

Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)

On October 16, WCLAC tweeted, “War Crimes are being committed in Gaza by the IOF. Get involved, be the voice of the voiceless, share.”
On October 11, WCLAC published a statement calling on the “international community must intervene and halt the ongoing Israeli military aggression and war crimes committed against the Palestinian civilian population.”

Israeli NGOs

7amleh

On October 14, 7amleh addressed a letter to EU Commission Thierry Breton seeking “clarification on your stance regarding content moderation under the #DSA in crisis situations. Your recent remarks have raised concerns…We’re concerned that the framing of your statement may inadvertently contribute to the discrimination against Palestinians’ online content, perpetuating dehumanization. Non-discrimination is a fundamental principle of the #DSA…We agree with the need to combat false information. Much disinformation serves to justify collective punishment for Palestinians, endangering lives…Commissioner @ThierryBreton, we seek your clarification on ensuring a balanced, non-discriminatory approach to content moderation in global crises, like Israel/Palestine. Let’s uphold the values of freedom of expression and access to information.”
On October 12, 7amleh published a statement claiming, “The Israeli government is taking advantage of the current international sentiment to continue exerting pressure on social media companies to censor the Palestinian narrative and silence voices critical of Israeli policies. Palestinian content and those advocating for Palestinian rights are continuously subjected to deletion and restrictions, all while false and misleading news spreads rampantly across online platforms, as is common during times of crisis.”
On October 9, 7amleh Project Coordinator Mohammad Badarneh posted on Facebook, “The ‘only important’ value of a human being living under occupation is the extent of his resistance to that occupation, in all possible means.”
On October 7, 7amleh Board Member Neveen Abu Rahmoun, posted on Facebook, “The Palestinian resistance is imposing a new stage since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa flood operation by resistance fighters infiltrating into numerous Israeli neighborhoods in the settlements, by creating points of contact, and by firing rockets of the resistance. Israel, in its turn, is constrained by this and has announced a state of high mobilization for war. The message of the resistance is clear, it has started and it shall escalate and shall impose a new reality.”
On October 7, 7amleh tweeted, “In light of recent events, targeting of Palestinian content on social media platforms intensifies. This may include the spread of hate speech & incitement, as well as content take-downs or suspensions.”
On October 7, 7amleh Board Member Neveen Abu Rahmoun posted on Facebook, “The Al-Aqsa Flood operation is not deprived of context. The context must be restored to the event and the message conveyed to the whole world.”

Adalah

On October 20, Adalah published a statement claiming, “Police carried out illegal arrests following protests against Israel’s war crimes against civilians in Gaza… The arrests the police carried out in the past two days were unequivocally illegal, and are a direct result of the Commissioner’s illegitimate order to ban lawful protests and his inflammatory and racist statements…”
On October 17, Adalah published a statement claiming that “The tactic of arming civilians is imported from Israeli settlers in the West Bank, as a means of exercising control through terror… this statement perpetuates the racist perception of Palestinian citizens as the ‘enemy’ of Israel’s law enforcement authorities…and further entrenches Israel’s policy of maintaining two separate law-enforcement systems based on national affiliation: one for Jewish-Israelis and one for Palestinian citizens… The Israeli government is now capitalizing on the rage and anxiety of Israelis, amid the fog of war, to entrench its system of apartheid in policing, as part of its supremacist policy.”
On October 15, Adalah tweeted, “Since 11 October, Israel has been denying access to water and electricity to Palestinian ‘security prisoners’ in Israeli prisons. This act constitutes collective punishment, is illegal, and amounts to torture… in response, Adalah, @acri_online, @stoptorture_il, and @HaMokedRights demanded that Israeli authorities immediately halt these measures of collective punishment and open an investigation into the IPS’s violence against the prisoners.”
On October 15, Adalah published a statement claiming, “illegal attack by Hamas militants that claimed the lives of hundreds of civilians in Israel. Israel’s massive airstrikes targeting civilians, coupled with clear statements by officials, indicate the intent to commit war crimes and ethnic cleansing.”

B’Tselem

On October 22, B’Tselem tweeted, “B’Tselem told the BBC that it had documented ‘a concerted and organised effort by settlers to use the fact that the entire international and local attention is focused on Gaza and the north of Israel to try to seize land in the West Bank’.”
On October 19, B’Tselem published a statement: “This illegal and immoral policy was employed in previous rounds of fighting, during which thousands were killed.. The horrifying reality in the Gaza Strip is a direct result of a stated Israeli policy… That is also why there is absolutely no justification for the war crimes Israel has been committing in the Gaza Strip for the past 12 days.”
On October 19, B’Tselem published a statement claiming that “Israel has also ramped up efforts to drive Palestinian communities and single-family farms out of their homes and land, cynically exploiting the war to promote its political agenda of taking over more land in the West Bank… In fact, these actions are part of Israel’s well-known, longstanding policy to make life so miserable for dozens of Palestinian communities in the West Bank that the residents eventually leave, seemingly of their own accord… This unlawful policy constitutes forcible transfer of residents in an occupied territory.”
On October 19, B’Tselem tweeted, “Under cover of Gaza war, settlers working to fulfil state goal of Judaizing Area C.”
On October 15, B’Tselem published a report claiming, “Suffering does not justify suffering and, one injustice does not justify another and one crime does not warrant another.” According to the report, “Israel is planning to send tens of thousands of soldiers into the Gaza Strip at any moment, launching a ground invasion whose proportions are not yet known. For the last week, top government and military officials have been calling for revenge, promising to ravage Gaza and cause unthinkable harm to hundreds of thousands of civilians. We must stop this now…another cruel campaign of revenge against the two million residents of Gaza – currently on its eighth day, with ministers and commanders promising more to come – is prohibited. Hamas’ crimes do not make Israel’s current and future crimes right or lawful.”
On October 15, B’Tselem tweeted, “However, another cruel campaign of revenge against the two million residents of Gaza – currently on its eighth day, with ministers and commanders promising more to come – is prohibited. Hamas’ crimes do not make Israel’s current and future crimes right or lawful.”
On October 15, B’Tselem tweeted, “Settlers, with the full backing of soldiers and sometimes with their participation, have been attacking Palestinians throughout the West Bank, as well as invading villages and initiating clashes, that often end with Palestinian fatalities. This is a deliberate attempt of the state, implemented by settlers, to inflame tensions and promote the settlers land grab project, under the guise of the war.”
On October 13, B’Tselem tweeted, “2 million people live in Gaza. The desire to take revenge on everyone, to starve them, to make them thirsty, reflects a criminal policy that contradicts international humanitarian law and constitutes a war crime.”
On October 12, B’Tselem International Advocacy Officer Sarit Michaeli tweeted, “The messianic Israeli right views the crimes and horrors unfolding in the south of Israel and Gaza as an opportunity. The US and EU must step in and demand the Israeli army stop this settler rampage, which is seriously threatening even deeper escalation.”
On October 11, B’Tselem tweeted, “Since Saturday, settlers have been attacking Palestinian residents in many parts of the West Bank. Settlers are utilising the fact that public attention is focused elsewhere to continue to remove Palestinians from their land and take it over, and add fuel to the fire of violence.”
On October 10, B’Tselem published a statement titled, “Revenge policy in motion; Israel committing war crimes in Gaza.” According to the statement, “There is no justification for these actions, which constitute war crimes openly ordered by top Israeli officials. Even in the face of horror and terror – intentionally harming civilians, their property and civilian infrastructure is always prohibited. One crime does not justify another, nor does one kind of injustice justify another. Acts of revenge are prohibited by basic moral principles and by the provisions of international law that Israel is obliged to uphold. Contrary to what Israeli ministers are implying, this policy is not new, but has been implemented towards Gaza for many years. The death, destruction, pain and horror it has wrought have led to nothing but more horror. It is time to demand to a different reality – a new future for all those who live here.”
On October 9, B’Tselem Board Chair Orly Noy published an article claiming, “It is important not to minimise or condone the heinous crimes committed by Hamas. But it is also important to remind ourselves that everything it is inflicting on us now, we have been inflicting on the Palestinians for years.”
On October 9, B’Tselem published a statement affirming, “Meanwhile, Israeli government ministers now calling to kill, destroy, crush and even starve the residents of Gaza forget that this is already Israeli policy. The military is currently bombarding Gaza even though it is clear, once again, that many of the victims are civilians – including women, children and the elderly. Intentional attacks on civilians are prohibited and unacceptable. There is no justification for such crimes, whether they are committed as part of a struggle for freedom from oppression or cited as part of a war against terror.”
On October 9, B’Tselem tweeted, “Israel certainly cannot claim the upper moral hand. Israeli government ministers now calling to kill, destroy, crush and even starve the residents of Gaza forget that this is already Israeli policy.”

Breaking the Silence

On October 13, Breaking the Silence posted a statement on Facebook claiming, “The shock of this massacre is understandable, but we must not allow it to become a justification for indiscriminate harm against civilians….Some of the innocents in the Strip now are also the Israeli abductees, and it seems that the government is ready for them to pay with their lives for their revenge.”
On October 8, Breaking the Silence tweeted, “Hamas’s attack and the events unfolding since yesterday are unspeakable. We could talk about their cruel and criminal actions, or focus on how our Jewish-supremacist govt brought us to this point. But as former Israeli soldiers, our job is to talk about what we were sent to do.”

Combatants for Peace

On October 10, Combatants for Peace published a statement on Facebook, “What is painfully clear is that this extreme right-wing settler government is showing their inability to keep anyone safe. A government that since its formation has only focused on itself and their agenda to occupy and annex the West Bank, appease those that stand in their way, and entrench the separation of Israelis and Palestinians. We as a community can not detach ourselves from the extremism and incitement that this government has been promoting since it formed, and the result is the biggest security failure that the State of Israel has ever known. For the sake of every Israeli and Palestinian life – it must go.”

Gisha

On October 13, Gisha published a statement affirming, “There are already clear indications that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza. Israel has a right and an obligation to protect its citizens, it does not have a right to commit war crimes.”
On October 10, Gisha Executive Director Tania Hary tweeted, “Today many asked me a version of the question ‘how much longer do they have?’ in reference to the siege. Do they mean how long until they starve to death? I can’t say. Maybe ask Israeli officials how many people in Gaza have to die before the thirst for vengeance is quenched.”

Kerem Navot

On October 8, Kerem Navot tweeted that “Any solution to this tragedy will require Israel to recognize the Palestinians and their historical and collective rights to this land, and to dismantle the system of oppression and apartheid that Israel practices against them.”

Ofek

On October 12, Ofek Co-founder (former Breaking the Silence Co-founder) Yehuda Shaul tweeted, “Hamas’ war crimes are an opportunity for the Israeli Right to advance their messianic agenda beyond the IDF response in Gaza. From rebuilding settlements in Gaza, to intensifying the takeover of Haram al Sharif/Temple Mount, & pogroms in the WB. We must prevent this.”

Zochrot

On October 22, Zochrot tweeted, “‘Palestinians don’t just die, they are killed by the Israeli regime.’ Another interview by biased western media corrected by Palestinians refusing misleading framings.”
On October 22, posted a statement on Facebook claiming that “Since the operation started, Israel has been committing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza, the same people that were forcibly removed from their indigenous villages during the Nakba.”
On October 22, Zochrot tweeted, “Ending the cycle of violence starts with us.
#Palestinians have suffered from occupation, settler colonialism and violence for decades. #Israel , as the occupying power, has the key to making this a reality. It’s time for Israeli society to choose a different path. #Palestine”
On October 21, Zochrot tweeted, “Things can be different: It’s time for us to realize that justice must be a fundamental part of our vision. We must value every life equally. Without these principles, violence will persist bcoz no one is expected to live a life of oppression without resistance. #FreePalestine”
On October 21, Zochrot tweeted, “No one is safe until all are safe
The safety of #Israelis cannot depend on the oppression & dispossession of Palestinians. Rather, our safety is dependent on each others’. It has never been more important to hold up the vision for decolonization and return of the refugees #Gaza”
On October 21, Zochrot tweeted, “We will not be true to our mission if we fail to see that the pain and grief we are experiencing now are part of a terrible trail of pain traced back at least 75 years. #FreeGaza”
On October 19, Zochrot posted a Twitter thread, “The pain we’re experiencing now is part of a trail of pain traced back at least 75yr ago. Truth telling & pointing out colonial structures of power & dispossession has been and remains our an integral part of our mission.. What happened on 7/10 and what continues to happen in #Gaza should be a reminder of that truth and an eye opener to the #Nakba that never ended and continues to be more present and resemble what happened in 1948… It is the Israeli society that must choose a different path towards #Justice which must uphold #Palestinians right of return.”
On October 19, Zochrot posted on Facebook, “We will be abandoning our mission if we fail to see that the pain and grief we are experiencing now are part of a terrible trail of pain traced back at least 75 years….We continue to get this cruel reminder every hour since, as Israel indiscriminately bombs the Gaza Strip in an unprecedented campaign of revenge and destruction.. Israeli officials and many, too many, in the Israeli public, continue to demand more blood, calling for ethnic cleansing, calling for genocide and ‘a second Nakba’ – and the caravans of Palestinians fleeing south, being bombed, the bodies being pulled out of rubbles, show it to be a plan, not just threat. So we have to remind ourselves and everyone that the Nakba never ended; that everything we see stems from the creation of the Gaza strip as a ״ghetto״ full of refugees, ethnically cleansed to create the state of Israel… As a criminal government uses genocidal tactics and language, willing to bomb and kill even its own captive citizens in the name of revenge and maintaining the image of a powerful army, as over a thousand children were already murdered in Gaza…”

American NGOs

Adalah Justice Project

On October 12, AJP tweeted, “The Western corporate media and western governments are guilty of genocide. But Palestinians will continue to rise.”
On October 11, AJP tweeted, “The demand of the Palestinian people is not radical: stop killing us!”
On October 9, AJP tweeted, “History will eventually write that Palestinians taught the world how to survive.”
On October 7, AJP tweeted a picture of terrorists breaking through the border fence, writing, “No cage goes unchallenged.”

Al-Shabaka

On October 25, Al Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “Remember, just a couple days ago, this man was crying real, actual tears on live television for dead Israeli children. But dead Palestinian children? Ehhh sucks to suck. At least they’re not wasting our time with ‘we’re all gods children’ bullshit.”
On October 25, Al Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “This brazen and honest disregard for the lives of innocent civilians in Gaza can only be attributed to the fact that they see the Palestinians as subhuman. If they considered Palestinian lives to be worth the same as Israeli or American lives, the conversation would be different.”
On October 25, Al Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “Evidence that shows Israel/the US are lying about what happened at Al Ahli Hospital is mounting, but it’s too late. Most mainstream news outlets have fallen for Israel’s well-oiled spin machine and the same misguided trust in intel agencies that led us to the invasion of Iraq.”
On October 25, Al Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “The children being pulled from under the rubble of their homes as we speak simply do not exist to John Kirby and the Biden Administration. They are completely invisible.”
On October 24, Al Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “This doesn’t show actual fuel, but if it did, why wouldn’t Israel bomb the fuel depots it claims only Hamas has access to? Israel has targeted bakeries, hospitals, water supplies, and other civilian infrastructure, surely it would take out supposed Hamas fuel depots. Just the latest example of Israeli disinformation to add to the endless list.”
On October 24, Al Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “A second Palestinian prisoner has been killed in Israeli prison over the span of just two days. It’s clear that Israel is torturing Palestinian prisoners to death, while international attention is focused on Hamas releasing Israeli hostages.”
On October 24, Al Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “‘This isn’t a ‘messaging’ problem for the Biden administration. The problem is that Biden’s actions scream to the world that he values an Israeli child more than a Palestinian one.’”
On October 24, Al Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “I spoke to @karmanomad about how anti-Arab/Muslim sentiment reminiscent of the post 9/11 days has surged across the US and how it is allowing Israelis to get away with calling for Palestinian genocide with no repercussions.”
On October 24, Al Shabaka tweeted, “Amid Israel’s brutal onslaught on Gaza, American universities have struggled to walk an almost impossibly narrow line: satisfying the demands of rich donors that they more clearly support Israel, while also respecting protesters’ rights of free expression”
On October 23, Al Shabaka tweeted, (Arabic) “The Human Rights and Democracy Media Center ‘Shams’ said, ‘The crimes committed by the Israeli occupation in the Gaza Strip… are an attempt to draw a new political and demographic map for the Strip,’ noting that the matter portends a new catastrophe for the Palestinian people through the forced displacement of citizens.”
On October 23, US policy fellow Tariq Kenney-Shawa tweeted, “For every Israeli hostage in Gaza, hundreds of Palestinians are being held hostage by Israel. Israeli forces went on a spree of arrests after October 7, but thousands of Palestinians have been languishing in Israeli prisons for years without charge/trial.”
On October 23, Al Shabaka tweeted, “‘What is certain, however, is that the Israeli settler-colonial state, with all its branches, has launched a war against Palestinians in all areas across historic Palestine.’ – Al-Shabaka policy analyst Basil Farraj for @Mondoweiss”
On October 23, Al Shabaka tweeted, “We call on you, in the name and memory of the hundreds of children exterminated by Israel in recent days, and in the name of all the oppressed whose dignity is being violated, to take your historic stand”
On October 23, Al Shabaka tweeted, “Gaza is not only a ground where Israeli weapons and technology are frequently revealed and used in the last years but also a testing ground for morality, hypocrisy, and privilege. It is a lab to test our human values. – Ahmad Amara in @mondowiess”
On October 20, Al-Shabaka tweeted, “Israel’s goal isn’t merely to defeat Hamas. It wants to eradicate Palestine altogether. When Israeli Defense Minister…declared that Israel would treat Palestinians like animals, he was conveying, in clear & direct language, a compulsion to genocide.”
On October 19, in an interview with The New Yorker, Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Amjad Iraqi claimed, “even to this day, there is an extensive legal infrastructure that inherently makes Palestinian citizens unequal to Jewish citizens…On one front, I think many of them saw the first phase of the Hamas attack, targeting military infrastructure, as this inspiring moment…it’s a very complex place to be in whereby they understand where Hamas is coming from and align themselves with the Palestinians who are trapped in that siege, but their politics is still much more about trying to play the system to try to change the status quo… Even if they’re horrified by the massacres and reject violence and call for a different kind of movement, they still understand why this is happening… whereas in the occupied territories they see Israelis physically as settlers and soldiers… but the problem now is that everyone is saying that the only answer to Jewish safety is Zionism, and I think many Jews will be the first to tell you that that’s not the case… But if Israel’s regime over Palestinians, which is defined by violence even outside of war, if this apartheid is still active, that is what metastasizes Palestinian violence….” (emphasis added),
On October 19, Al-Shabaka tweeted, “In addition to the American support pledged by Biden, the international community did not have the courage necessary to hold Israel responsible for the Baptist Hospital massacre, despite its condemnation, and has so far failed to stop the Israeli aggression against the Gaza Strip.”
On October 18, Al-Shabaka tweeted, “The UK should suspend all weapons export licenses to Israel because there is a clear risk British arms may be used to violate international humanitarian law, two organisations have warned the government.”
On October 18, Al-Shabaka tweeted, “To date, Israeli forces have murdered over 3,000 Palestinians in their latest assault on Gaza with no end in sight. Al-Shabaka analysts continue to respond to the brutalization of Palestinians with necessary grounding to the root cause that is Israeli settler colonialism.”
On October 16, Al-Shabaka Senior Policy Analyst Yara Hawari published an article titled, “Israel’s evacuation order is nothing but cover for ethnic cleansing.” According to the article, “Whichever way you look at it, the situation can only be described as ethnic cleansing and continuation of the Nakba that began in 1948.”
On October 16, Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Marwa Fatafta responded to a tweet by EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, writing, “You cheer for genocide and now you want to feed the lucky survivors? You don’t speak in our name, you war criminal.”
On October 15, in an interview with Jacobin, Al-Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kennedy-Shawa claimed, “This is a clear repeat of what happened in 1948, when over 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes in the face of rampaging Zionist militias only to be prevented from returning by Israel. This would create a new, even bigger refugee crisis to add to the existing tragedy. Meanwhile, Israel would be getting away with blatant ethnic cleansing with the full backing of the United States and the rest of the West.”
On October 15, Al-Shabaka tweeted, “Israel has dropped more bombs on Gaza in six days than the US dropped on Afghanistan in a single year. The Israeli military is ordering over one million Palestinian civilians to flee their homes. This is genocide & ethnic cleansing.”
On October 15, Al-Shabaka analyst Abir Kopty retweeted a post by President of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen, writing, “You are a war criminal. You could save lives but you prefer them die to then pretend you cared. Your money is stained with our blood. What a disgrace to humanity.”
On October 15, Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Marwa Fatafta tweeted, “Palestinians in Gaza have nothing expect prayer and dead bodies bearing witness to this colossal injustice and barbarity.”
On October 14, Al-Shabaka analyst Abir Kopty tweeted, “They are ethnically cleansing Gaza. That is not an analysis. That is happening openly. This are stating it clearly. Gazans have two choices: Ethnic cleansing or genocide.Under the watch of the world. ‘never again’ is reserved for people with the right color of skin.”
On October 13, in an interview with The Intercept, Al-Shabaka Board President Tareq Baconi claimed, “We have seen many times before what happens to Palestinians when they are expelled from their homes. We need to understand what the Israeli government is preparing right now in the context of ethnic cleansing.”
On October 12, in an interview with The New Yorker, Al-Shabaka Board President Tareq Baconi stated, “With this offensive, I think it’s much harder to go back to a world where we think of this as just terrorism that’s unprovoked…Hamas’s violence isn’t coming out of the blue.”
On October 12, Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Marwa Fatafta tweeted, “The level of disinformation and lies coming out from the mouth of @POTUS and his administration is despicable and dangerous. Very much on brand for a country that outright lied about mass destruction weapons so it can justify the invasion and killing of 1 million people in Iraq.”
On October 12, Al-Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kennedy-Shawa tweeted, “$2 billion US taxpayer dollars, in addition to the $3.8 billion we already throw at Israel annually, to pay for the munitions they are using to target civilians in Gaza as we speak. Our tax dollars are funding and facilitating a massacre.”
On October 11, Al-Shabaka Board President Tareq Baconi published an article claiming, “for decades Israel has operated on the pretense that it can provide security for its citizens while subjecting the Palestinian people to an apartheid regime. Now that pretense has been shattered.”
On October 11, in an interview with Novara Media, Al-Shabaka Senior Policy Analyst Yara Hawari stated, “This was not an unprovoked attack. There is nothing unprovoked in a situation when you have people living under colonial occupation for decades and in Gaza under siege.”
On October 11, Al-Shabaka Senior Policy Analyst Yara Hawari tweeted, “There is no doubt about it that an ethnic cleansing is taking place in Gaza.”
On October 11, in an interview with Sky News, Al-Shabaka Senior Policy Analyst Yara Hawari stated, “this was not a provocation by Hamas. The Israeli regime has for decades placed Palestinians under colonial occupation.”
On October 11, Hawari tweeted, “As of 2pm local time, Gaza’s only power plant ran out of fuel. This means that vital services, including hospitals, will soon no longer function. Those running on generators will also soon run out. Make no mistake about it, this is ethnic cleansing.”
On October 11, Al-Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kennedy-Shawa tweeted, “People are responding to this as if Israelis calling for Palestinian genocide is new or just a reaction to Hamas’s operation. There is nothing new about this blood lust. I remember hearing Zionists scream ‘turn Gaza into a parking lot’ when I was in middle school in NYC.”
On October 10, Al-Shabaka tweeted, “Activists and specialists called for stopping and freezing Arab normalization activities with the Zionist entity in various fields, especially economic ones, in a context of solidarity with the Palestinian side in the face of the American-Israeli war machine.”
On October 10, Al-Shabaka tweeted, “In the context of the Zionist colonization…these hierarchical power structures have meant it is the Palestinian who must explain himself, justify his actions, rationalize his presence, prove his humanity. The Palestinian bears the burden of proof.”
On October 10, Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Marwa Fatafta tweeted, “The US is explicitly —and in the strongest terms—green lighting Israel’s genocide in Gaza. We will never forget. We will never forgive.”
On October 7, Al-Shabaka Policy Analyst Marwa Fatafta tweeted, “Israel has been committing unspeakable war crimes, crimes against humanity, and illegal collective punishment against Palestinians in Gaza for 15 years. 15 years. Any comment or analysis that doesn’t take this fact into consideration today is hollow, immoral, and dehumanizing.”
On October 9, Al-Shabaka Senior Policy Analyst Yara Hawari tweeted, “The Israeli regime is unleashing hell on Gaza in retribution for the Hamas operation. But this didnt begin on Saturday. As if decades of Israeli colonial occupation werent enough, Gaza has been under siege for the last 16 yrs rendering it an open air prison. Context matters.”
On October 9, Al-Shabaka US Policy Fellow Tariq Kennedy-Shawa tweeted, “Sanctions, not even on Hamas, but on Palestinians as a whole who play no role in fighting. Meanwhile, they won’t even consider conditioning military aid to Israel despite decades of recognized war crimes and leaders who have been inciting ethnic cleansing for years.”
On October 8, Al-Shabaka tweeted, “Al-Shabaka rejects the Israeli Regime’s colonial borders that work to fragment and ultimately erase Palestinian existence. Breaching these boundaries expands the Palestinian imaginary for possibilities of both resistance and collective freedom. We recognize that decolonization is not a metaphor; it is not merely statements or analysis, but an active process that demands the dismantling of colonial power and the reclamation of land. We stand alongside those committed to this effort and to the liberation of Palestinans worldwide.”

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)

On October 13, AFSC launched a petition calling on Congress to “Oppose a ground invasion of Gaza by Israel!”
On October 13, AFSC published a statement claiming, “To bring change, we must address the roots of conflict, including historic and ongoing Palestinian displacement, occupation, and the reality of apartheid….Sending weapons and military aid to Israel at this time only expands violence and takes us further from a solution…Some ideas for shifting the narrative: Violence did not start with the attacks from Gaza. These actions occurred in the context of a 16-year-old blockade of Gaza… Killing, oppression, and dispossession at the hands of the Israeli state have been Palestinian realities for decades, and recent events must be seen in that context… For decades, the Palestinian people have faced Israeli occupation and systematic human rights abuses that constitute apartheid… call for an end to Israeli apartheid.”
On October 11, AFSC tweeted, “To end violence in Palestine and Israel, we must address root causes. We call on the US and the international community to focus on diplomacy, honor humanitarian law, and address systemic issues and policies at the root of the tragedy unfolding.”
On October 10, AFSC Secretary General Joyce Aljouny condemned Israel’s “racist rhetoric,” claiming, “There’s been no condemnation whatsoever of that racist rhetoric coming from the Israeli government. We had the Israeli finance minister saying Palestinians have three options – immigrate, or live under subjugation or die.”
On October 9, AFSC published a statement claiming, “The Israeli escalation is being justified by explicitly racist rhetoric… Through this experience it has become clear to us that security cannot be created by systematic oppression. Palestinians suffer from daily violence and collective punishment, while much of the world does nothing. One need not dig deeply into the history of the 75 years of occupation to find the evidence to prove that point. Look at the conditions this year… This is apartheid. And it must end for lasting peace to flourish in the region… We call on the U.S. and other members of the international community…to change long-term policies that ignore the Apartheid realities and Israeli abuses of Palestinian rights… history shows us that people who are oppressed will continue to find ways to resist their oppression… The only path to lasting peace for Palestine and Israel is by uprooting occupation and apartheid.
On October 9, AFSC published a fact sheet of “5 things you need to know about what’s happening in Israel and Gaza.” According to the fact sheet, “Violence did not begin with the attacks from Gaza…This lack of accountability and a sense by Palestinians that they have been abandoned by the international community is important to understanding recent violence. For violence to end, U.S. policy must change. Israel must be held accountable for its rights violations, and the system of apartheid must end.”
On October 9, AFSC launched a petition calling on Congress to “call for an immediate end to all violence—and to address the apartheid system and persistent inequality that are the root cause of this violence.”

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

On October 21, AMP and the US Council of Muslim Organizations held a “national march for Gaza” in Washington DC.
On October 21, AMP tweeted, “Every parent’s worst nightmare is the daily reality of the parents of the over 1,600 children massacred by Israel in the last two weeks. Will you stand by them? Will you call to #StopTheGenocide?”
On October 21, AMP tweeted, “The Biden administration has given Israel the green light to genocide Gaza. The US knows what Israel is guilty of but will never have the backbone to acknowledge, let alone act upon it. We will never forgive or forget what you have done in our name, @POTUS. #GazaGenocide.”
On October 20, AMP is hosting a “DC Friday Prayer for Gaza” calling to “Stop Genocide Now.”
On October 18, AMP tweeted, “Israel’s current onslaught on Gaza, which has killed over 3,500 Gazans, is a continuation and escalation of its initial genocidal ethnic cleansing campaign that began in 1947.”
On October 18, AMP staffer Mohamad Habehh was arrested for protesting at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Hearing.
On October 17, AMP tweeted, “This trauma will live on these children forever. What has Israel done to generations of Gazans? How has the international community not intervened to end this genocide? #GazaGenocide.”
On October 16, AMP endorsed the “CeasefireNOW Resolution” led by Reps. Cori Bush, Rashida Tlaib, Andre Carson, Summer Lee, and Delia Ramirez that urged the Biden administration to “immediately call for and facilitate deescalation and a cease-fire to urgently end the current violence.”
On October 14, AMP Director Osama Abuirshaid spoke at a protest, saying, “There is a lot of passion. There is a lot of anger. Not only because of what is taking place in Gaza now, but also because this administration implicated the United States in these crimes…This administration is not only inciting violence, it’s allowing it and enabling it against the Palestinian people by providing more ammunition, more missiles, more weapons, as if we don’t give Israel already a $3.8bn annually… The American people are unaware of the facts because most of our so-called mainstream media is adopting a one-sided approach, showing the human suffering on one side, while neglecting the real human suffering on the other side of the border, which is inside the Gaza Strip…”
On October 14, AMP Advocacy Director Ayah Ziyadeh stated at a press conference, “The root causes of this is clear. It is decades of Israeli military occupation, apartheid & US complicity.”
On October 14, AMP held a “Day of Action for Palestine” in “solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
On October 12, AMP published a statement claiming, “Israel is engaged in a genocidal rampage… These are not the actions of a nation acting in self-defence, but an entity actively engaged in genocide…. The US government’s role in perpetuating the mass murder of Palestinians… These actions constitute war crimes. The Biden administration has reinforced the Israeli narrative and has regurgitated Israeli talking points that further dehumanize Palestinians to justify Israel’s mass murder. We need to call out the US government for giving Israel more weapons to kill Palestinians. Instead of taking this opportunity to change course and end the violence, the US government has selected to add fuel to the fire and contribute to the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians… Gaza is no longer just an open-air prison, it’s an extermination camp…For 75 years Palestinians have had to endure mass murder and ethnic cleansing and displacement.”
On October 11, AMP Outreach Director Taher Herzallah stated in an interview with MPRnews, “This is absolutely devastating to have an American Government giving the green light to the Israelis to engage in this genocidal rampage against the people of Gaza.”
On October 10, AMP tweeted, “There it is!! Israel will not think twice before it attempts to wipe Gaza, and the rest of Palestine off the map. To the racist apartheid regime, they are not killing babies, mothers, fathers, sisters, and brothers, they are exterminating ‘human animals’. #GazaUnderAttack.”
On October 10, AMP Advocacy Director Ayah Ziyadeh tweeted, “Everything happening right now solidifies one major fact: the West will only ever value the lives of people that resemble its majority (white people). We are considered subhuman, and they are incapable of maintaining a true moral compass for anyone other than their own.”
On October 9, AMP Advocacy Director Ayah Ziyadeh tweeted, “Palestine 101 for those who need it right now. The ‘peace for everyone’ narrative is worthless until the root cause of this issue is addressed: Israel’s 75 year long occupation of Palestine, including its 16 year siege on Gaza.”
On October 8, AMP Executive Director Osama AbuIrshaid tweeted, “Palestinians have been murdered by the thousands & we say nothing. And suddenly Joe Biden pops up & starts teaching us about morality & humanity. Well, screw your morality!”
On October 9, AMP tweeted, “Israel is now engaged in a full-fledged genocidal rampage and its main objective is the complete and irreversible destruction of Gaza.”
On October 8, AMP published a statement titled “Reality vs. Propaganda: Changing the Discourse on Gaza.” According to the statement, “First of all, this was not an attack, it was a response. Expecting a besieged, occupied, brutalized, and colonized people to remain docile in the face of nearly a century of brutal oppression and colonial subjugation is inhumane and unjust. It was inevitable that Gaza, after more than 16 years under an air, sea, and land blockade with little food or potable water, medicine, or electricity, completely cut off from the world–with Arab regimes normalizing their oppression by cutting deals with the Israelis–is now rising up to end this violent system once and for all.”
On October 7, AMP and Adalah Justice Project published a statement calling on the Biden Administration to “facilitate an immediate ceasefire and address the root cause of violence, that is, Israel’s Apartheid regime, and specifically in Gaza, Israel’s brutal siege and blockade.” According to the statement, “While ignoring the plight of Palestinians, this unwavering support undercuts the moral ground that the U.S. claims to hold in promoting “democracy” and “human rights” worldwide. The U.S. is implicated and responsible for the continued escalations in this case.”
On October 8, AMP Education Coordinator Tarek M. Khalil participated in a rally in Washington DC, stating that, “Israel is the occupier, colonizer, and oppressor, Palestinians are the occupied, colonized, and the oppressed. As an American taxpayer, the choice is clear, stand with the oppressed.”

Center for Constitutional Rights

On October 24, CCR tweeted, “US @StateDept gave cover to Israel at the UN #bindingtreaty negotiations in Geneva this AM. CSOs walked out All states must immediately uphold the Genocide Convention by bringing about a #CEASEFIRE now and hold Israel and its allies, like the US, accountable for their actions.”
On October 22, CCR published an article quoting CCR Staff Attorney Diala Shamas at the United Nations Human Rights Committee claiming, “As we’re watching a genocide unfold in Palestine with what looks like full complicity of the United States, we’re also witnessing a parallel assault on those rising up to protest this genocide domestically… The public dehumanization of Palestinians at the highest level of US government has led to skyrocketing repression of activism and all expressions of support for Palestine… We call for the United States to end its complicity in genocide and call for an immediate ceasefire… to affirm the need for accountability for Israeli and US abuse of Palestinians.”
On October 22, in an interview with Common Dreams, CCR claimed, “The United States is not only failing to uphold its obligation to prevent the commission of genocide, but there is a plausible and credible case to be made that the United States’ actions to further the Israeli military operation, closure, and campaign against the Palestinian population in Gaza rise to the level of complicity in the crime under international law… the United States—and U.S. citizens, including and up to the president—can be held responsible for their role in furthering genocide, both under international and U.S. law…”
On October 21, CCR Attorney and Fellow Sadaf Doost tweeted, “The U.S. gov’t — including individuals who have the ability to prevent Israel’s unfolding genocide in Gaza — have a duty to act to prevent the bombing of Al-Quds Hospital under the Geneva Convention, otherwise they are complicit.”
On October 20, CCR tweeted, “Going All-In for Israel May Make Biden Complicit in Genocide ‘[T]he crime of genocide implicates not only those carrying out the crime, but also those complicit in it’.”
On October 19, CCR tweeted, “NEW: There is a credible case, based on powerful evidence, that Israel is attempting to commit, if not actively committing, genocide against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.… Our paper describes how through its ongoing unconditional military, diplomatic, and political support to Israel, the United States is not only failing to prevent genocide, but is complicit…”
On October 19, CCR tweeted, “BREAKING: We’ve authored an emergency briefing paper featuring legal and factual analysis of Israel’s unfolding crime of genocide against the Palestinian people and U.S. complicity in this grave international law violation.”
On October 19, CCR tweeted, “In our final informal briefing to the UN human rights committee, @USCPR_ executive director @A7madAbuznaid calls on the committee members to hold the United States accountable for its complicity with Israeli genocide of Palestinians.”
On October 18, Diala Shamas Senior Staff Attorney tweeted, “Palestinian rights advocates at UN call out US complicity amid accusations of genocide”
On October 18, CCR published an “emergency legal brief” on “Israel’s Unfolding Crime of Genocide of the Palestinian People & U.S. Failure to Prevent and Complicity in Genocide.” According to the brief, “There is plausible and credible case, based on powerful factual evidence, that Israel is attempting to commit, if not actively committing, the crime of genocide in the occupied Palestinian territory, and specifically against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.”
On October 16, CCR tweeted, “Speaking on genocide in Palestine to the UN Human Rights Committee: ‘The US must cease its support of a regime that is committing genocide of the Palestinian people. If we don’t act now, then the words ‘Never again’ will be just that, words.’ — @A7madAbuznaid”
On October 16, Diala Shamas Senior Staff Attorney tweeted, “US complicity w/ Israeli genocide first and foremost devastating consequences for Palestinians in Gaza. But the rampant dehumanization of Palestinian life has consequences in the U.S. too. My 2 minutes @ the UN Human Rights Committee. #WadeaAlFayoume”
On October 16, Diala Shamas Senior Staff Attorney tweeted, “Here in Geneva, at the US review by the UN Human Rights Committee, with @USCPR_’s @A7madAbuznaid, we’re raising the US complicity in Israeli genocide with anyone who will listen. #ceasefireNOW”
On October 16, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Diala Shamas tweeted, “US complicity w/ Israeli genocide first and foremost devastating consequences for Palestinians in Gaza. But the rampant dehumanization of Palestinian life has consequences in the U.S. too. My 2 minutes @ the UN Human Rights Committee.”
On October 13, CCR tweeted, “What Israel is doing in Gaza is genocide. Genocide is when actions are taken to destroy a group in whole or in part, including by killing or by creating conditions of life to bring about the groups destruction.”
On October 13, CCR tweeted, “Statements and actions by @POTUS and others in the US suggest that the United States is increasingly complicit. Complicity in genocide is absolutely prohibited and we will not forget.”
On October 12, CCR posted a statement claiming, “It is our commitment to human dignity and the preciousness of life that has long led our organization to stand with Palestinians as they resist Israeli colonization, occupation, and apartheid…to decry Israel’s slaughter in Gaza, which is in danger of becoming a genocide…Israel’s U.S-supported and sponsored subjugation of Palestinian communities – daily bombardments, vigilante violence, torture, imprisonment, land theft, arrests, annexation, restrictions on movement – that has contributed to this moment…The international community has watched in silence as Israel has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity against generations of Palestinians with impunity…and openly call for genocide, Israel is again engaging in collective punishment of a largely civilian, refugee population who cannot escape. There is good reason to fear that this will be Israel’s most horrific crime ever against Palestinians…all actors, including the United States, must be held accountable for war crimes and crimes against humanity.”
On October 10, in an interview with The Guardian, CCR Senior Staff Attorney Diala Shamas stated, “Recognizing the root causes of the current violence doesn’t require condoning attacks on civilians. Offering context is not offering an excuse. On the contrary: the only way to honor the loss of life – Palestinian and Israeli – is to address its source. The US must end its complicity in Israeli apartheid, systemic oppression, military occupation and collective punishment – not double down on its support.”
On October 8, CCR tweeted, “Palestinians and solidarity activists know their rights, and they will continue to protest.”
On October 8, following protests in New York, CCR tweeted, “Accusing supporters of Palestinian human rights of support for terrorism is dangerous, tired, and ignores 75 years of Israeli colonization and war crimes.”
On October 7, CCR published a press release claiming “Israeli Colonial Domination Is Necessary Context to Palestinian Resistance.” According to the press release, “The Center for Constitutional Rights stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people in their decades-long struggle for self-determination and freedom from Israel’s regime of apartheid and prolonged belligerent military occupation of the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and Gaza. Israel’s brutal 16-year closure of Gaza has suffocated the two million Palestinians imprisoned there, while Israel has repeatedly launched military assaults that have killed thousands of civilians and injured tens of thousands more. Israeli colonization of historic Palestine gives rise to the international legal right of colonized people to resist colonial domination and to pursue national liberation and self-determination. Under international law, armed groups, such as Palestinian resistance fighters, can lawfully carry out attacks on military targets. Israel, with the full support of the United States and much of the international community, has committed war crimes and crimes against humanity with complete impunity, resulting in the profound erosion of international norms and the necessary protections for occupied people and civilians. We echo demands for accountability and reaffirm our commitment to dismantling all forms of colonialism.”

Christian Peacemaker Teams

On October 15, CPT published a statement referring to all Palestinian deaths as martyrs with no mention of Hamas terrorism, writing,“As of now, there have been at least 2329 martyrs in Gaza and 55 martyrs in the West Bank during the week of the Israeli aggression on Gaza… They were fighters for their homeland, for their land. They were resilient resistance fighters on their own soil, resisting for a better life… They resist the occupation, which has been killing and displacing Palestinians since 1948… This resistance, a natural response to the occupation’s crimes against Palestinians, has been met with condemnation by many, while the occupiers are given the right to defend themselves. The Palestinian resistance is often unjustly labeled as terrorism, even though they are merely defending their land and within their rights of international law and UN General Assembly Resolution 2649 of 1970, which affirms the legitimacy of the struggle for self-determination… I understand that you stand against violence but don’t let your stance against violence create a space of denial for the right to resist.”
On October 13, CPT published a statement justifying Hamas’ use of violence, claiming “conflict is messy, propaganda is rampant, and power structures influence the course of violence. So, in our commitment to undoing oppressions, it is imperative that we also hold our position of nonviolence up to the mirror…Therefore, in times of horrific violence, our position on nonviolence needs to be deconstructed, especially as an organization born from white colonial and imperialist nations. As peacemaking practitioners, we cannot feed the dominant narrative that further justifies violence against the oppressed….So tell us, what are you struggling to come to terms with as we speak to the events of this week?”
On October 14, CPT tweeted, “Day by day, stories etched on sea, land, and sky, We shall not become a museum exhibit, erased by the colonial state, Nor bow to supremacy that seeks to dictate our lives. we are alive, we exist.”
On October 12, CPT tweeted, “Pray for Palestine. Gaza is suffering relentless violence from Israeli bombardments this week. Let us pray for recognition of our shared humanity and unite in calls for liberation.”

Church World Service

On October 12, Church World Service published a statement “condemn[ing] the State of Israel’s attacks that have put the civilians in Gaza, half of them children, directly in harm’s way. There is no place in our world for terrorism and violence against children and civilians… Given the particular vulnerability of Gaza’s population, we urge that humanitarian access be established to help prevent further human suffering among its 2.2 million inhabitants, half of whom are children.”

Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP)

On October 19, Churches for Middle East Peace published a statement: “We call for an immediate ceasefire and that the root causes of suffering be addressed. .. and for the collective punishment imposed upon the civilians in Gaza to be brought to an end. Atrocities against civilians are never justified.”
On October 13, Churches for Middle East Peace published a statement claiming, “At this critical juncture, Congress and the Biden Administration must not sit idly by as ethnic cleansing unfolds… We cannot be silent in the face of ongoing collective punishment against the more than 2.2 million citizens of Gaza – of whom more than half are children.”
On October 9, CMEP published a statement claiming, “For Palestinians, many feel their own suffering and catastrophes, at the hands of a decades-long military occupation and encroaching settlement expansion and violence has long been ignored. Neither tragedy negates the other. If there is ever to be long-lasting and sustainable peace, the core causes of the conflict must be addressed and resolved.”

CODEPINK

CODEPINK has an ongoing campaign titled the “The Gaza Genocide Gang: EXPOSED!” The campaign encourages individuals to post pre-written tweets. Examples include:
- “Genocide Joe: As Genocide Architect in Chief, Biden has openly enabled Israel to commit genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity by funding the bombs dropping on innocent people in Palestine.” Pre-written tweet, “From repeating lies to sending $100 billion for bombs to kill, Biden is not only supporting genocide, but he is funding it. He has blood on his hands. #GenocideGang @CODEPINK”
- “Bombin’ Blinken: Blinken not only supports the Genocide but also demands that no one in his office call for descalation or a ceasefire. It’s only foot on the gas genocide for him and his team of “diplomats.” Pre-written tweet, “Imagine being so pro-war that you ban the words ‘ceasefire/de-escalation’, ‘end to violence/bloodshed’ and ‘restoring calm’? Anthony Blinken and his ‘diplomats’ aren’t interested in diplomacy, they are pushing for more escalation and more violence. #GenocideGang @CODEPINK”
- “Villainous von der Leyen” Pre-written tweet, “The EU President is justifying genocide by calling it “democracy”. Von der Leyen: when will you wake up to the truth of Israeli ethnic cleansing? #GenocideGang @CODEPINK”
- “Blood Thirsty Zuckerberg” Pre-written tweet, “Zuckerberg is silencing the truth about genocide. He is acting as a propaganda tool for Israel. #GenocideGang @CODEPINK”
On October 25, CODEPINK tweeted, “Don’t let any member of Congress pretend they don’t know about the brutal genocide Israel is perpetrating with US support. People have been telling them to their faces for weeks now.Here’s what we told @RepGregoryMeeks’ office today.”
On October 25, CODEPINK tweeted, “Congress has blood on their hands! We were in Congress yet again today alongside many others demanding members push for a ceasefire and an end to the occupation of Palestine.”
On October 25, CODEPINK tweeted, “They are telling us to our faces that they are going to continue carrying out the mass slaughter of Palestinians. This is not a war. It’s a genocide.”
On October 24, CODEPINK tweeted, “‘It’s genocide. It’s ethnic cleansing. Call it what it is!’ Leslie is on the 8th day of her hunger strike for Gaza. She’s in Congress to demand they do the bare minimum and sign on to Cori Bush’s resolution calling for a ceasefire.”
On October 24, CODEPINK tweeted, “This is ridiculous. We ordered balloons that read ‘END THE SIEGE ON GAZA’ and the production plant refused to print them.”
On October 24, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Biden calling for peace??? What a cruel joke. For starters, he should stop Israel from bombing and starving Palestinians.”
On October 24, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “I have been glued to Al Jazeera and am sickened, sickened, sickened by the relentless Israeli bombing of Gaza. This Israeli government, along with its US enablers, are heartless war criminals.”
On October 23, CODEPINK tweeted, “We were lied to in order to justify the invasion of Iraq and other violence as part of the so-called ‘war on terror’. Now, our leaders are trying to justify arming apartheid and genocide in Palestine. We see right through it.”
On October 23, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Poet/writer/feminist June Jordan once said that Palestine was a moral litmus test. Now is the time for everyone to take that litmus test and stand in solidarity with the Palestinian people.”
On October 22, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “CNN’s Jake Tapper should be hired by the Israeli government to run their propaganda machine. He’s really good at it.”
On October 21, CODEPINK tweeted, “Tens of billions of dollars of public money is being spent on bombing children and arming apartheid. Who is that making safe and secure? Security comes from ending war and funding our communities!”
On October 21, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “There is DEEP frustration and anger among State Department staff re US support for Israeli genocide. The same is true in Congress. I know firsthand.”
On October 20, CODEPINK tweeted, “Sara Snider was responsible for amplifying an IOF soldier’s false claim about ‘40 beheaded babies’ as Israel began its relentless bombing campaign against Gaza.”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Blinken pretends he cares about Palestinian civilians while the green lights Israeli bombings, refuses to call for a ceasefire and promotes billions more US $$$ for more bombs to kill more civilians in Gaza.”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Biden said: ‘We are, as my friend Madeleine Albright said, the indispensable nation.’ It would have been more appropriate to remember his warmonger friend saying the deaths of 500,000 Iraqi children were ‘worth it’, as this basically what Biden is saying about Palestinians.”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Biden talks about bringing in small amounts of humanitarian aid to Gaza, but doesn’t call for a ceasefire to stop people from being slaughtered???”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Biden and congress: listen to the american people. No more weapons to Israel!!!”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “More than 6,000 bombs have been dropped on terrified civilians in Gaza, and Biden brags about more US jobs making more bombs. Unconscionable. A total lack of humanity.”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Biden’s ‘logic’ makes absolutely no sense: We must send more weapons to Ukraine because it is occupied; we must send more weapons to Israel, the occupier.”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “President Biden: Sending billions in bombs and weapons to the Israeli military that has mercilessly murdered over 4,000 innocent Palestinians is unacceptable.”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “BREAKING NEWS: Biden refused to say how much money he is asking for to fund more war in Ukraine and Israel. Maybe because he knows the American people want him to STOP wars, not fuel them.”
On October 20, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “WTF? Biden says sending more weapons to Ukraine and Israel is an investment to keep Americans out of harm’s way. It’s setting the stage for WWIII!!!”
On October 19, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Let Gaza Live. Let Gaza Live. @RepMTG supports genocide.”
On October 19, CODEPINK tweeted, “After backing an internationally condemned occupation for 75 years, the United States refuses to let up on its support for Israeli ethnic cleansing. Calling for a PAUSE to deliver humanitarian aid is literally the least the US could do for Palestinians, and they still won’t.”
On October 18, CODEPINK tweeted, “The ‘humanitarian’ thing to do would be ending all support for Israel’s genocidal military campaign against Palestine. You can’t ‘support’ Palestinians while you provide the bombs dropped on them.”
On October 18, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Biden’s speech in Israel today was painful to watch. He talked at length about the atrocities committed against Israelis, but ignored the horrific suffering in Gaza right now using US bombs–and the ongoing suffering from the siege of Gaza and the occupation of the West Bank.”
On October 18, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Biden in Israel shows ZERO understanding of what Palestinians have been suffering since the creation of Israel. Nor does he care to understand. He is an Israeli propagandist.”
On October 18, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Biden’s ‘ironclad support’ for Israel and his lack of ANY understanding or compassion for the plight of Palestinians will make the US hated throughout much of the world.”
On October 18, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “The Israeli’s bomb a hospital in Gaza, killing over 500 people, and Biden tells Netanyahu he thinks the hospital was bombed by ;the other team, not you.’ Biden’s cover up for Israeli war crimes is beyond disgusting. It’s hideous.”
On October 18, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “‘Explosion’ at the hospital in Gaza, @SecBlinken ??? No, it was an Israeli air strike. And you support Israel. So don’t give us more bs about your commitment to protecting civilian life!”
On October 18, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Re Palestine some of us have said that a 2-state solution has long been dead and the only solution is a unified democratic state with equal rights for all. But does the present crisis make that impossible as well? So what is the solution???”
On October 18, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Israel is committing genocide. The world must stop them!!!”
On October 17, Co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “See you there. At the US capitol tomorrow. Called by Jewish Voice for Peace #JVPLive Say No to Genocide in Gaza.”
On October 17, CODEPINK tweeted, “After committing the single deadliest massacre since the Nakba, Israel is requesting aid from the US. The US must stop arming this genocidal regime NOW.”
On October 15, CODEPINK co-founder Madea Benjamin tweeted, “So true re Gaza: When you need to have hundreds of protests just to tell the world that bombing children is not ok, that is when you know that humanity has failed.”
On October 15, CODEPINK co-founder Madea Benjamin tweeted, “It just gets worse and worse. The US State Department staff wrote that press materials should not include the phrases: ‘de-escalation/ceasefire,’ ‘end to violence/bloodshed’ and ‘restoring calm.’ Biden is giving a total green light for Israel’s collective punishment of Gazans.”
On October 13, CODEPINK tweeted, “The White House says peace is ‘repugnant’ and colonial occupiers have a right to violence against civilians. The last time they talked like this the US killed 4.5 million people.”
On October 13, CODEPINK tweeted, “Israel has told one MILLION people with nowhere to go to evacuate within a day (now 12 hours). This is nothing short of ethnic cleansing carried out with US weapons and political support. We cannot let our government keep arming a genocide.”
On October 13, CODEPINK co-founder Madea Benjamin tweeted, “‘Think of the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.’ says @GaborMate979, a Holocaust survivor.”
On October 13, CODEPINK tweeted a quote from the Union of Teachers & Employees of Beirzeit University in the West Bank, “We do not need to speak of our right to resist, for it is not a right, but a way of being and survival for Palestinians.”
On October 13, CODEPINK co-founder Madea Benjamin tweeted, “Given the conditions the Gazans have been subjected to, especially over the past 16 years of cruel besiegement, the unchecked rage and violence by Hamas can be understood but not excused.”
On October 13, CODEPINK co-founder Madea Benjamin tweeted, “Hamas and its excesses are the product of a century of systematic and brutal destruction of the Palestinian people by a Zionist project determined to displace the Palestinian people, take its lands, and turn their country into an exclusively Jewish state.”
On October 12, CODEPINK participated in a protest outside Elbit offices in Massachusetts demanding, “Elbit Systems won’t conduct business as usual in our city while profiting from the mass murder of Palestinian people!”
On October 12, CODEPINK co-founder Madea Benjamin tweeted, “Israel helped create these fighters in Gaza by starving them of hope, dignity and a future.”
On October 10, CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin tweeted, “Over 2 million people in Gaza have been taken hostage by the Israelis for the last 16 years.”
On October 9, CODEPINK co-founder Madea Benjamin tweeted, “So the US is not calling for a ceasefire or restraint as Israel pummels civilian residences in Gaza and prepares for an even more brutal military response. The US gives Israel a green light for more collective punishment, which is illegal and immoral.”
On October 8, CODEPINK launched a petition calling on President Biden & Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III to “Stop Supporting Israeli Apartheid.” According to the petition, “Israel has colonized, occupied and oppressed the people of Palestine for 70 years. This has inevitably led to the resistance of Palestinians. For the last 20 years Palestinians have been committed to non-violent activism to raise up their plight, with the increasing violence of the last few years, especially this year there are those who pivoted to resistance on October 7.”
On October 8, CODEPINK participated in a protest in Washington DC calling on “Biden to stop arming apartheid and impose sanctions on Israel!”
On October 7, CODEPINK co-founder Madea Benjamin tweeted, “The Israeli government can’t keep two million trapped in an open air prison in Gaza and not expect resistance.”

Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)

On October 18, DAWN Director of Research for Israel-Palestine Michael Omer-Man published an article claiming, “For the majority of the 21st century, Israel has pursued policies in Gaza that it believed would give it space to continue its apartheid and occupation regimes.”
On October 16, DAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson tweeted, “If you’ve been feeling like a righteous warrior flying a Ukrainian flag and crying for its civilians under attack but have had nothing to say about (or sought to justify!) Palestinians under Israeli bombardment and siege, you’re a self-deluded fraud.”
On October 16, DAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson tweeted, “This is going to sound odd to people but massacring thousands of men, women & children creates major PR problems for Israel because each death will confirm it’s an Israeli ISIS.”
On October 16, Dawn published an article by its fellow Michael Sfard, claiming, “At what point in time do you start an article about the catastrophe unfolding now in the Gaza Strip?… Or should we go back to 1948, to the Nakba, to the enormous ethnic cleansing of Palestinians carried out by the newly born Jewish state?…The fear that the profound shock and outrage in Israeli society over Hamas’s massacre will be exploited for ethnic cleansing in Gaza should not be waved off…”
On October 15, DAWN published an article calling to “Monitor and Restrict Use of U.S. Weapons by Israel to Avoid Complicity in War Crimes.” According to the article, “U.S. officials don’t care about Palestinian civilians facing atrocities using U.S. weapons, perhaps they will care a bit more about their own individual criminal liability for aiding Israel in carrying out these atrocities…The American people never signed up to help Israel commit war crimes against defenseless civilians with taxpayer funded bombs and artillery.”
On October 14, DAWN Fellow Diana Buttu published an article claiming, “Those who claimed that the Hamas attack was “unprovoked” conveniently chose to ignore the reality that Palestinians live under: 75 years of ethnic cleansing; 56 years of military occupation and, for Gaza, 17 years of a brutal siege.” According to Buttu, “It is only in a world where Palestinian lives are so dehumanized that Palestinian suffering becomes normalized. And it is only when Palestinians are so dehumanized that the Hamas attack is seen as ‘unprovoked’—coming from nowhere. For we Palestinians are supposed to endure for decades what Israel suffered for a day. We are supposed to remain in our cages. It is in this dehumanized world that Israel underestimates, painfully, the desire and will of a people to break out from their cages.”
On October 13, DAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson tweeted, “Bears reminding: the @IntlCrimCourt has an active investigation into international crimes in Gaza. US officials face INDIVIDUAL criminal liability for aiding & abetting war crimes & crimes against humanity by providing weapons & material support to @IDF.”
On October 11, DAWN Advocacy Director Raed Jarrar published an article claiming, “This narrow focus on dealmaking between Israel and Arab autocrats, while ignoring the Palestinian question and pretending it no longer mattered, created a fantasy of stability…All this should go hand-in-hand with a firm commitment to end U.S. support for Israeli policies that smack of apartheid and violate international law. As long as America continues to bankroll Israel’s military campaigns and fails to criticize its actions, we’re not brokers for peace; we’re enablers of conflict and suffering.”
On October 10, DAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson tweeted, “Targeting civilian government officials, including a Hamas Minister of Economy, is a war crime. Mere membership in Hamas does not make one a valid military target. Only combatants or those directly contributing to hostilities may be lawfully targeted in an armed conflict, – though Israel systematically has ignored this prohibition.”
On October 9, DAWN Executive Director Sarah Leah Whitson tweeted, “Expect to see an endless series of indiscriminate and deliberate attacks on civilians and civilian infrastructure by Israel. Saturday’s attack demonstrates what a failure Israel’s intelligence has been to begin with, they have little idea where to find military targets, and now they’re bombing and obliterating blindly, for naked revenge.”
On October 9, Whitson tweeted, “I recognize that emotions are running high and folks even thousands of miles away feel personally traumatized, but such craven calls for genocide of Palestinians, including children, should never be tolerated. Our role in the Int’l community should be to fight for the preservation of all life.”
On October 9, Whitson tweeted, “Can ⁦@SecBlinken⁩ tell us if any of these bombs are paid for or provided by US taxpayers? Will Israel provide a public. accounting of how many bombs, how many tons, and what locations it is dropping its arsenal in Gaza? (never has).”
On October 9, DAWN Director of Research for Israel-Palestine Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man stated, “this moment demands that the international community start to recognize and address the root causes—apartheid, occupation, and siege.”

Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP)

On October 24, FMEP President Lara Friedman tweeted, “Gaza War hasbara Rule 1: insist ANY suggestion Isr-Gaza history didn’t start on Oct 7 is anti-Israel/antisemitic/pro-Hamas Rule 2: attack anyone who violates Rule 1 — in this case 👇🏻 Israel demands UN SecGen RESIGN for accurately referencing facts about situation pre-Oct 7.”
On October 24, FMEP President Lara Friedman tweeted, “ICYMI, Biden supplemental asks for $$ to support Palestinians kicked out of Gaza, now & in the longer term. Hard to see how this is anything other than the Biden Admin giving a green light to an outcome that will amount to direct ethnic cleansing. See: https://whitehouse.gov/wp-content/upl”
On October 24, FMEP President Lara Friedman tweeted, “As you read about Israel Intell Min’s proposal for ethnic cleansing of Palestinians from Gaza in 🧵 below, reminder that, as I reported yesterday, the Biden Admin’s supplemental budget request to Congress explicitly includes $ to support this happening. “
On October 20, FMEP published a statement claiming, “the Israel reaction which at this point is clearly incipient genocide/ethnic cleansing.. It is all just soul-crushing to follow, let alone to try to document comprehensively while also following the actual horror-show of genocide unfolding on the ground.” Under the section of “Support Israel,” FMEP writes, “BIDEN – YOU SUCK FOR NOT DOING MORE TO HELP AMERICANS IN ISRAEL.” Under the section “Targeting all Palestinians,” FMEP describes a bill in congress as “ATTACKING US SCHOOLS & STUDENTS FOR ENGAGING IN/ALLOWING PROTEST IN SUPPORT OF PALESTINIANS IN GAZA; ACCUSING THEM OF ENDANGERING JEWISH STUDENTS & SUPPORTING/ENGAGING IN ANTISEMITISM” and another one as “**IHRA DEFINITION ALERT!*** (DE-FUND US UNIVERSITIES THAT PERMIT PROTESTS OF ISRAEL/PROTESTS FOR PALESTINIAN RIGHTS VIA LEGISLATING THE IHRA DEFINITION OF ANTISEMITISM” and another one as “GOING ON A WITCH HUNT! DEPORT FOREIGNERS IN THE US WHO CRITICIZE ISRAEL/DEFEND PALESTINIANS.”
On October 14, FMEP President Lara Friedman tweeted, “Palestinians are forced to constantly defend their existence/humanity in the media & defenders of Israel still try to delegitimize/silence them. This isn’t new but today it isn’t merely about suppressing criticism of Israel; it’s about directly enabling ethnic cleansing/genocide.”
On October 13, FMEP President Lara Friedman tweeted, “We are watching Israel commit large scale genocide/ethnic cleansing in real time, with the US govt and much of the organized Jewish community justifying it, defending it, materially supporting it, celebrating it and quite literally cheering it on.”
On October 13, Friedman tweeted, “In a few generations my people went from surviving genocide to reveling in doing same to Palestinians – in revenge for Hamas’s heinous acts this week, but more fundamentally as revenge for Palestinians daring to exist & not letting us forget what Israel’s done to them for 75 yrs.”

IfNotNow

On October 19, IfNotNow tweeted, “Biden’s unconditional support for Israel as Israeli officials threaten a genocide in Gaza is reckless and unconscionable. The aid he pledged to Israel will no doubt be used to commit war crimes. We need ceasefire and hostage release now, not fuel on the flames.”
On October 16, IfNotNow tweeted, “We’re throwing our bodies onto the cogs of the war machine. We will not allow a genocide of the Palestinian people to happen in our name.”
On October 15, IfNotNow is leading a protest at the White House, calling on “ALL American Jews and allies to join us at the White House this Monday to demand that Biden implement a ceasefire and force Israel to halt its war on Palestinians in Gaza. Mourn for the dead; fighting like hell for the living…Stop Genocide of Palestinians.”
On October 14, IfNotNow activists interrupted President Biden’s speech at the Human Rights Campaign, calling to “Let Gaza Live.”
On October 14, IfNotNow co-founded Yonah Liberman tweeted, “I am absolutely begging American Jews to take a breath and think before sharing content that makes us out as the exclusive victim in a moment when our people are about to commit genocide to another people with the backing of global superpowers.”
On October 14, IfNotNow tweeted, “On this Shabbat, Israel is on the brink of committing genocide. We know that word sounds jarring, even extreme to many of us in our community. We know the painful history of that word. And that’s exactly why we must use it.”
On October 13, IfNotNow and JVP protested outside the home of Majority Leader of the United States Senate demanding, “he do everything in his power to stop a genocide in Gaza that our grief and pain cannot be used as an excuse for more violence.”
On October 13, IfNotNow tweeted, “We refuse to let our grief be used to justify the ethnic cleansing of Palestinians. We must act to stop a second Nakba. Our leaders must step up — stop the war and demand de-escalation now.”
On October 13, IfNotNow Digital Communications Associate Naftali Ehrenkranz tweeted, “We’re seeing, in real time, the American President and Israeli president craft these narratives to justify a Palestinian genocide. If there was ever a moment to speak out for Palestinian life, this is it.”
On October 11, IfNotNow Digital Communications Associate Naftali Ehrenkranz tweeted, “to compare Israelis to holocaust victims during this moment in time is to ignore the ghettos the Israeli government has put Palestinians in.”
On October 9, IfNowNow co-founder Simone Zimmerman tweeted, “Israeli gov failures led to this catastrophe. Now Israel’s top propagandists are asking the public to turn a blind eye to crimes against humanity in Gaza at unimaginable scales. It is blood curdling. Massacres do not justify other massacres. They only create more bloodshed.”

Jewish Voice for Peace

On October 20, JVP tweeted, “These atrocities are carried out with full support from the U.S. government. With their aid, the Israeli military is carrying out a genocide and the destruction of Palestinian life and culture. We cannot stop demanding an end to this horror. Palestinians will not be erased.”
On October 20, JVP tweeted, “The crisis in Gaza only grows more extreme by the day. To shift the tides will require nothing short of a mass movement that refuses to rest–and refuses to let our government rest–until we end Israel’s genocidal war on Palestinians.”
On October 18, JVP tweeted, “Just as we demand an end to genocide in Gaza, we must put the same effort into dismantling the systems of Zionism, apartheid, and colonialism that brought us to this moment.”
On October 18, JVP tweeted, “We can and will stop genocide in Gaza. But this horrific situation was only possible because of the groundwork laid by the Israeli state over 75 years ago. Since 1948, the Israeli government built a system of apartheid and illegal occupation.”
On October 16, JVP published a statement claiming, “In order to justify this indefensible violence, the U.S. is breaking out the full post-9/11 playbook of repression and intimidation. Using state intelligence and surveillance agencies, rampant media disinformation and one-sided coverage, and dehumanizing, racist, and Islamophobic rhetoric, anti-Palestinian forces are working overtime to silence and intimidate anyone who stands against Israel’s attempt at genocide in Gaza.”
On October 13, JVP and IfNotNow protested outside the home of Majority Leader of the United States Senate demanding, “he do everything in his power to stop a genocide in Gaza that our grief and pain cannot be used as an excuse for more violence.”
On October 13, JVP published a statement titled, “Genocide, ethnic cleansing, and another Nakba in Palestine.”
On October 13, JVP launched a petition to call on American officials to “Stop genocide against Palestinians in Gaza.” According to the petition, “It is absolutely urgent that Biden and Congress demand a de-escalation and call for a ceasefire, and demand that humanitarian assistance be allowed into the Gaza Strip. We must also not exacerbate and fuel violence by further arming the Israeli government as it commits mass atrocities. There is only one way to end violence and that is to address the root causes of everything happening: 75 years of Israeli military occupation and apartheid, and end U.S. complicity in this systemic oppression.”
On October 12, JVP published a statement calling to “stop imminent genocide.” According to the statement, “the Israeli and American governments are weaponizing these deaths to fuel a genocidal war against Palestinians in Gaza, pledging to ‘open the gates of hell.’ This war is a continuation of the Nakba, when in 1948, tens of thousands of Palestinians fleeing violence sought refuge in Gaza. It’s a continuation of 75 years of Israeli occupation and apartheid.”
On October 11, JVP launched a petition calling on the United States to “stop fueling violence.” According to the petition, “There is only one way to end violence: to address its root cause, 75 years of Israeli military occupation and apartheid. We must end U.S. complicity in this systemic oppression.”
On October 10, JVP Political Director Beth Miller tweeted, “I am so furious. The pain is overwhelming. Every single life is precious. Every Israeli and Palestinian child is someone’s entire world. But Biden only values Israeli life. And he does not even care about Palestinian Americans. He willfully erases what brought us here.”
On October 10, JVP Political Director Beth Miller tweeted, “This approach from our government – this is what got us here. This full throated support for systemic Israeli violence and occupation and apartheid. This erasure and dismissal of brutality and violence against Palestinians. Biden is beating the drums of war.”
On October 8, JVP published a statement claiming that “right now, mainstream media is deliberately sidelining and censoring Palestinian narratives. It’s imperative that we uplift Palestinians as they describe their harrowing reality under Israeli occupation — whether that’s the last 24 hours, or the past 75 years. As the news of violence and loss of life unfolds, we must be clear: this is the direct result of decades of Israeli occupation, apartheid, and colonialism over millions of Palestinians.”
On October 8, JVP hosted a “Power Hour for Gaza,” calling for people to “Channel your anger and devastation into action! …What is happening right now is the direct result of decades of the Israeli government’s occupation, colonization, and apartheid over millions of Palestinians. The only path to that future is an end to the root causes of all violence: Israeli oppression of Palestinians. The bloodshed of today and the past 75 years traces back directly to U.S. complicity in the oppression and horror caused by Israel’s military occupation. The unchecked military funding, diplomatic cover, and billions of dollars of private money flowing from the U.S. enables and empowers Israel’s apartheid regime.”
On October 7, JVP published a press release claiming “The Root of Violence Is Oppression.” According to the press release, “The Israeli government may have just declared war, but its war on Palestinians started over 75 years ago. Israeli apartheid and occupation — and United States complicity in that oppression — are the source of all this violence. Reality is shaped by when you start the clock. For 16 years, the Israeli government has suffocated Palestinians in Gaza under a draconian air, sea and land military blockade, imprisoning and starving two million people and denying them medical aid. The Israeli government routinely massacres Palestinians in Gaza; ten-year-olds who live in Gaza have already been traumatized by seven major bombing campaigns in their short lives. For 75 years, the Israeli government has maintained a military occupation over Palestinians, operating an apartheid regime. Palestinian children are dragged from their beds in pre-dawn raids by Israeli soldiers and held without charge in Israeli military prisons. Palestinians homes are torched by mobs of Israeli settlers, or destroyed by the Israeli army. Entire Palestinian villages are forced to flee, abandoning the homes and orchards and land that were in their family for generations.”

Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)

On October 16, MECA tweeted, “the Israeli genocide unfolding in Gaza hasn’t stopped the Israeli machinery from continuing its crimes and murders in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem.”
On October 8, MECA participated in a protest in San Francisco, claiming, “We are witnessing the people of Gaza rising up to respond to decades of Israeli settler colonial violence. The US govt bears responsibility for its political, economic & military support of this brutal apartheid regime. Join us to stand in solidarity with Palestine.”

National Lawyers Guild

On October 7, NLG published a statement “stand[ing] in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle against the Settler Colonial State of Israel.”

Open Society Foundations

On October 11, according to news sources, Open Society Foundation President Mark Malloch-Brown sent an email to the Foundation’s network, writing, “collective punishment of civilians was a serious violation of humanitarian law…Because the current discussion is so divisive, we have not yet spoken publicly but will choose our moment to intervene to make this point when we think we might be heard.”

Palestine Legal

On October 18, Palestine Legal Staff Attorney Dylan Saba tweeted, “Now is the time to boycott Zionism. Push your institutions to take a stand against genocide.”
On October 17, Palestine Legal Staff Attorney Dylan Saba tweeted, “I am sick to my stomach. Zionism must end. There is no other path to redemption.”
On October 13, Palestine Legal tweeted, “While the Israeli government continues its indiscriminate bombardment of Palestinians in Gaza and appears to be setting the stage for a second Nakba, racists and Islamophobes in the United States have sought to silence and punish Palestinians and their allies.”
On October 10, Palestine Legal published a statement “express[ing] our firm and unequivocal solidarity with the Palestinian people in their struggle for self-determination and freedom…Four days into what is one of the most significant acts of Palestinian resistance to Israel’s nearly eight decade long settler colonial project in Palestine, it is clear that Israel is bent on waging a vengeful genocidal war on the people of Gaza – once again…There is no equivalence – moral or otherwise – between Israel’s nearly eight decades of ceaseless colonial violence, and the resistance that it has engendered.”

United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO)

On October 7, USCMO published a press release claiming that “The United States Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO) reaffirms its unwavering support for the Palestinian people and their right to freedom from the Israeli occupation. The recent unprovoked and continuous attacks by Israel on Palestinian towns, cities, and refugee camps have resulted in tragic loss of Palestinian lives. We condemn Israel’s targeted and indiscriminate killing of civilians, including innocent children, women, and the elderly, and we denounce the inhumane siege imposed on the nearly 2 million inhabitants of Gaza, a clear violation of international law and an implied declaration of open war on the Palestinians which oblige them to be in constant self-defense.”

US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)

On October 16, Ahmad Abuznaid spoke at the UN Human Rights Committee, affirming, “The US must cease its support of a regime that is committing genocide of the Palestinian people. If we don’t act now, then the words ‘Never again’, will be just that, words.”
On October 9, USCPR tweeted, “There are no ‘both sides’ when Israel has always been the colonizer & aggressor, with one of the world’s most advanced militaries, trapping 2+ million Palestinians (mostly refugees) in an open-air cage in Gaza in unlivable conditions. This is genocide. Pick a side. Free Palestine.”

WESPAC Foundation

On October 8, WESPAC published a statement claiming “The attack from Gaza has a context. It follows months and years of constant violence, pogroms, expulsions and other manifestations of apartheid inflicted on Palestinians in the West Bank and Jerusalem. We do not condone attacks on civilians or violence of any kind. We do recognize its root causes in oppression, injustice and apartheid.”

European NGOs

ACT Alliance

On October 8, ACT Alliance published a statement with no mention of Hamas or Israeli victims, writing, “We wish to emphasize the protracted nature of the Gaza Strip’s enduring blockade, which has persisted since 2007, resulting in countless violations upon the basic rights of its population. In response to these distressing circumstances, we not only demand an immediate cessation of this blockade but also strongly advocate for the establishment of a fair and enduring peace that will secure the restoration of these essential rights to all people.”

ACT Alliance EU

On October 10, ACT Alliance EU and CIDSE published a statement claiming “the indiscriminate bombing and the intentional attacks against the Palestinian civilian population and infrastructure such as hospitals and schools by the Israeli army also amount to War Crimes while persecution, or collective punishment, amounts to a Crime Against Humanity under the Rome Statute…we must not forget the root causes that are sustaining this endless cycle of violence and human tragedy. Sixteen years of blockade in Gaza… Fifty-six years of military occupation, the annexation of Palestinian land, and systemic discrimination…The illegal settlements…settler violence…The changes to the status quo around the Temple Mount/Haram Al-Sharif in East Jerusalem and violations of the right to worship… The international community and the EU and US government in particular bear a heavy responsibility for the deteriorating situation. For years, they have failed to adequately hold Israel accountable for gross violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, in accordance with their own third state obligations under International Law.”

Al Quds Association

On October 24, Al Quds tweeted a link to an article about companies against Israeli occupation and colonization with the hashtags “#Gaza_under_attack #Gazagenocideشاركونا #PalestinianGenocide #ApartheidIsrael”
On October 22, Al Quds tweeted, “Urgent appeal to unions #palestinos : put an end to all complicity, stop arming #ApartheidIsrael https://alqudsandalucia.org/llamamiento_sindicatos_palestinos_fin_complicidad_israel/ Let’s avoid #Gazageoncide Global solidarity with people #Palestina See appeal in other languages @RESCOP1 @BDSmovement @WorkersinPales1”
On October 20, Al Quds published an interview (Spanish) with Al Quds Vice President Eva Nieto: “We are being complicit in a consensual murder of 2 million people in the Gaza Strip, including tens of thousands of children. It is NOT a war between 2 states.. Eva comments on how the Zionist project was created to occupy the Palestinian territories after WWII… Introduction of BDS : boycott, divestment and sanctions on all products or artistic manifestations from Israel for not respecting human rights. Introduction to Israeli Apartheid, which must be defeated peacefully through citizen activism… which has been a breeding ground for Hamas to create an armed wing as resistance… We do not justify violence, but we have seen year after year the breeding ground created by Apartheid in the West Bank and the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.”
On October 20, Al Quds Association held a protest in Malaga “for the end of the Zionist occupation, against the apartheid of Israel and against the war.”
On October 19, Al Quds Association published a “feminist manifesto against the genocide in Palestine, silence and impunity.”
On October 10, Al Quds Association tweeted, “#Fósforo target launched against the population of #GazaUnderAttack . Its use is prohibited and today #ApartheidIsrael he has used it to cause as much damage as possible against civilians #palestinos. Hundreds dead, including 100 children. Crimes against humanity #FreePalestine.” (translated from the original Spanish)
On October 9, Al Quds Association published a statement by Red Solidaria Contra la Ocupación de Palestina: “The end of violence necessarily involves the end of the structural violence to which the Palestinian people have been subjected for decades. The end of violence requires the end of Israeli apartheid and its ethnic cleansing that has continued for 75 years. The Israeli colonial regime was founded and is maintained through war crimes and crimes against humanity….“End relations with the Israeli regime of colonialism, oppression and apartheid” (translated from the original Spanish).

Amos Trust

On October 10, Amos Trust published a statement, “We denounce Israel’s 17-year-long siege of Gaza and their decision to halt all fuel, food, water and medicine to the entire population of Gaza…We condemn the severity of Israel’s retribution, which will leave thousands dead.”

Association Belgo-Palestinienne (ABP)

On October 22, ABP tweeted, (French) “More than 40,000 demonstrators in Brussels to demand an end to the massacres in Gaza and an end to impunity for Israel.”
On October 20, ABP tweeted, (French) “More than 50 civil society organizations in solidarity with the Palestinian people are calling for demonstrations this Sunday 22.10 in Brussels to demand an end to the ongoing massacre in Gaza and the impunity from which 🇮🇱 benefits. 🕑 2:00 p.m.📍 Schuman roundabout 🇪🇺”
On October 14, ABP tweeted, “Attached to the law, we have always handled the notion of genocide with caution. The question of its perpetration by Israel against the Gazans is now openly raised by the Palestinian organizations @alhaq_org, @AlMezanCenter and @pchrgaza” (translated from the original French).
On October 14, ABP tweeted, “The UN special rapporteur @FranceskAlbs warns of the risk of ethnic cleansing in Gaza and urges the international community to act” (translated from the original French).
On October 14, ABP tweeted, “Neither its actions nor its words allow us to doubt it: Israel is not waging this war to destroy Hamas, but Gazan society as a whole. A crime against humanity perpetrated with the blessing of the EU. #Shame #NotInOurName #Gazagenocide” (translated from the original French).
On October 13, ABP tweeted, “We join this call from @jvplive warning of an imminent risk of genocide in Gaza” (translated from the original French).
On October 13, ABP tweeted, “War crime. One more” (translated from the original French).
On October 12, with an attached image of Israel announcing that water and electricity will be shut off in Gaza until its hostages are returned, ABP tweeted, “150 of our compatriots are taken hostage? We are taking 2.3 million Gazans hostage.”
On October 12, ABP tweeted, “Video review of yesterday’s demonstration for a ceasefire and the protection of the Israeli and Palestinian civilian populations and the end of occupation, colonialism and Israeli apartheid” (translated from the original French).
On October 7, ABP published a statement “support[ing] the right to anti-colonial resistance of the Palestinians.. Let us remember that the occupation of Palestinian territory constitutes an act of aggression which the Palestinians have the right to resist, as does the blockade of Gaza, responsible for a major humanitarian disaster for 16 years…The endless cycle of violence will only end if Israel ends the structural violence of its apartheid colonial regime. It is up to the international community to force it to do so.” (translated from the original French)

Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS)

On October 13, AFPS issued a statement claiming, “One more expulsion for these survivors or descendants of victims of the Nakba, the expulsion and forced displacement of more than 700,000 Palestinians… Gazans are therefore undergoing a second massive expulsion from their own territory” (translated from the original French).
On October 12, AFPS published a statement claiming, “the punitive expedition carried out by the Israeli army through its air force and ground artillery alone has caused a macabre toll. unpublished in recent years…To the continuous bombardments of civilians, there was therefore added the major humanitarian risk, in an enclave populated by 2.3 million inhabitants, locked in a military, land, naval and air blockade, imposed since 16 years, by the Israeli government and army…. The same day, bombings directly targeted the Gaza port, strikes that local human rights organizations identify as white phosphorus bombings. Remember that in 2009, the Israeli army had already confessed to having committed the same crime” (translated from the original French).
On October 9, AFPS published a statement titled, “After deadly Hamas attacks, Israeli army commits massacre in Gaza” claiming that, “These attacks are collective punishment inflicted on millions of Gazans for attacks carried out by Hamas and armed groups… The humanitarian organizations present on site highlight the fact that the first victims of these new restrictions, which amount to yet another potential war crime, are the Gazans injured in the bombings” (translated from the original French).
On October 7, AFPS published a statement emphasizing, “It is first important to qualify this operation for what it is: a military operation of the weak against the strong, remembering that the Israeli army is one of the strongest and best equipped in the world. We deplore that civilians have been killed on both sides, and warn against the use of the term ‘terrorist’ which has always been used against resistance movements” (translated from the original French).

CARE International

On October 13, CARE published a statement claiming, “Innocent Palestinians should not bear the cost of the response to the horrible act of terror perpetrated against innocent Israelis. If such an order stays in place, the humanitarian consequences will be on a scale that we have not seen in the region in recent history…. We implore those with the power to do so to immediately de-escalate the cycle of violence and prioritize the protection of civilians’ lives in Gaza, including of humanitarian workers, as mandated by international humanitarian law.”

Christian Aid

On October 10, Christian Aid issued a statement that “we are very concerned by reports that some official donors are halting aid for Palestinian civilians, which will only deepen their suffering… The cycle of violence will not end, and innocent people will continue to pay the price, until a new approach is taken, which treats Palestinians and Israelis as equals, and ends the occupation of Gaza and the West Bank.”

Council for Arab-British Understanding (Caabu)

On October 24, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “Privilege to address @LFPME. Key messages: Ceasefire now, lift total siege, full humanitarian access & release hostages. More aid unsufficient without ceasefire. Israel must stop bombing civilian targets. Leaders must call out racist genocidal statements from Israeli Ministers.”
On October 24, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted in response to a tweet by President Joe Biden, “It is quite something to supply the bombs to be dropped on the very people you wish to send aid to.”
On October 20, Caabu published a statement claiming, “Israel’s complete siege of Gaza is collective punishment of a civilian population, which experts say is a war crime in international law.”
On October 18, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “You need to hold Hamas accountable for its atrocity but hold Israel accountable for its actions. It was not Hamas who inposed (sic) a siege, and cut water, food and electricity off to a civilian population.”
On October 17, Caabu published a statement claiming, “Israeli actions in Gaza must be in accordance with international law, something it has not done in previous military operations… It is also vital that Israel not be allowed to collectively punish the Palestinian population of Gaza including by cutting off of electricity as has already been done… the situation is so grave that many lawyers and genocide experts are discussing whether Israel may be guilty of the crime of genocide in Gaza… this is a collective punishment of a captive civilian population and a war crime… If you have 75 years of enforced exile, 56 years of military occupation,16 years of blockade and impose a regime of apartheid, you do not get calm.”
On October 15, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “A state committing war crimes really should not be the one to determine what is right and wrong when another state criticises it.”
On October 15, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “Israel alone not Hamas is responsible for whether its bombs and shells hit civilian targets. Period. UK officials should make every effort to ensure that they do not become complicit in the commission of war crimes.”
On October 14, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “Netanyahu would rather bomb a prison (Gaza) than be in one.”
On October 14, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “I don’t deny Hamas has not helped Palestinian quest for freedom but to just ignore the role of its occupier is extraordinary.”
On October 13, Caabu published a press release calling on the UK to “Israeli plan for forcible transfer of 1.1 million Palestinians.”
On October 13, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “To be clear. This is giving a 24 hour warning of a war crime. Even issuing this is an act of terrorism. Israel knows that this evacuation is imperssible (sic). Imagine for a second the terror created on top of the terror of the bombardment Palestinians are already enduring.”
On October 13, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “The issue of whether what Israel is doing right now to Gaza constitutes genocide is definitely worthy of examination. Its officials have used genocidal language. It has imposed a genocidal siege, denying civilians food and water. It has decimated entire neigbourhoods.”
On October 12, Caabu published a press release claiming that “Imposing a total siege on Gaza is a war crime. No politician should condone this.”
On October 12, Caabu Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “Rather than send military hardware, the UK should be deploying diplomats and looking for political solutions. Legally this is also risky as Israel is engaing (sic) in war crimes right now. Makes UK even more complicit.”
On October 11, CAABU Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “You think Hamas’s actions have made ethnic cleansing of Palestinians less likely?”
On October 11, CAABU Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “The hypocrisy stinks. Russian war crimes challenged. Israeli war crimes condoned.”
On October 11, CAABU Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “Defending youself does not give licence to carpet bombing of civilian areas and a medieval siege. It does not give Israel the toght (sic) to turn Gaza into what a spokesman described as a city of tents.”
On October 8, CAABU Director Chris Doyle stated in an interview, “The assumption that you can leave that small strip of land to fester and it can stay contained, it won’t. If you have 75 years of enforced exile, 56 years of military occupation,16 years of blockade and impose a regime of apartheid, you do not get calm, you do not get peace; hell in Gaza will never equal heaven in Israel – you will get a reaction. Israel has now declared war, but for Palestinians, it already had. Occupation for them is a daily aggression.”
On October 8, CAABU Director Chris Doyle tweeted, “I share the sympathy for those Israeli civilians killed, yet every time I see these flags being raised after some atrocity, I think of those ignored, forgotten typically with much larger numbers.”

Diakonia

On October 14, Diakonia tweeted, “IHL is clear: civilians that decide for whatever reason to remain in northern Gaza are still fully protected under IHL. Issuing evacuation orders & warnings does not relieve Israel from its obligations to comply with the principles of distinction, proportionality and precautions.”

EAPPI UK and Ireland

On October 13, EAPPI UK and Ireland launched a petition calling on MPs “to hold Israel accountable to its obligations under international law. As hostilities continue, innocent civilians will pay the highest price unless the international community acts.”

Embrace the Middle East

On October 13, Embrace the Middle East published a statement claiming that Israel “does not have the right – on this international law is very clear – to act indiscriminately, without due regard for the safety of innocent civilians. It cannot for example erase whole neighbourhoods, starve or move an entire population from their homes.”

EuroMed Rights

On October 20, EuroMed Rights tweeted, “#Gaza: imposing conditions on the entry of basic humanitarian aid such as food, water and medicine is a war crime. We call for an immediate ceasefire & an end to the unlawful killing of innocent civilians in Gaza, says @EuroMedRights President @walasmar to @ifmTn”
On October 19, EuroMed Rights tweeted, “What we are seeing in #Gaza is caused by the unconditional support of the United States and the European Union for Israel without any accountability in the past for war crimes committed in occupied Palestine. What is happening today is not new to the Palestinian people. It is a systematic genocide, and it is unfortunate that it is happening in international silence.”
On October 16, EuroMed President Wadih al-Asmar and EuroMed Executive Director Rasmus Alenius Boserup published an article claiming, “Israeli repression of the rights of the Palestinians violates several international legal standards and is likely to breed radicalisation and violence.” According to the article, the EU must “ensure that war crimes perpetrators are held accountable. It must publicly support the International Criminal Court on its investigations of war crimes in Palestine and invite member states to support a chronically underfunded and understaffed court.”
On October 16, EuroMed Rights tweeted, “Considering the many missed opportunities to enforce accountability in #Israel & the #OPT & pursue a real peace process in the past, the ongoing violations of int’ law & collective punishement in #Gaza should be a wakeup call for the EU”
On October 10, EuroMed Rights published a statement claiming, “It is irresponsible to discuss the ongoing escalation of violence without addressing the root causes of the conflict, which lie in the Israeli occupation and the settler colonial project.”
On October 9, EuroMed Rights tweeted, “The situation in #Israel/#Gaza/#oPt is a terrible sign of the failure of the EU and the international community to pursue peace, enforce International Humanitarian Law & ensure self-determination for Palestinians.All must now be done to protect civilian life & infrastructure.”
On October 10, EuroMed Rights tweeted, “#Israel’s decision to cut all power, food and water supply to #Gaza constitutes an egregious violation of international law and a form of collective punishment, risking to aggravate the ongoing humanitarian crisis.”
On October 10, EuroMed Rights tweeted, “The recent declarations of Israel’s Defense Minister @yoavgallant when announcing the siege is another step of the dehumanization of #Gaza people & a call to commit a war crime that must be immediately repudiated by EU, international community & @IntlCrimCourt.”
On October 9, EuroMed Rights tweeted, “Suspending EU/MS funds for PA will worsen humanitarian situation.Cuts will target civilians, impact functioning of hospitals & administration thus worsening a dire human rights & security situation. Cutting funds is a form of collective punishment against Palestinian civilians.”

Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)

On October 14, ICAHD will participate in a “March for Palestine…in solidarity with Palestine and to demand Israel end its occupation of Palestinian land and apartheid rule over the Palestinian people.”
On October 11, ICAHD Director Jeff Halper published a statement claiming, “The dramatic break-out by Hamas fighter could have been a heroic and potentially decisive blow for Palestinian liberation. In fact, it did achieve at least two strategic goals. It restored Palestinian pride and agency by resisting oppression and proving that Israel was not invincible. And it demonstrated that the Palestinians can no longer be ignored and excluded as political actors. which the cynical, US-led attempt to “normalize” Israel in the Arab and Muslim world without addressing the Palestinian national rights tried to do. Having said that, Hamas ultimately failed the Palestinian people when its well-planned operation descended into wanton carnage. That is what happens when resistance loses its political focus and simply lashes out. Given the conditions the Gazans have been subjected to, especially over the past 16 years of cruel beseigement (sic), unchecked rage and violece (sic) can be understood but not excused.”
On October 9, ICAHD published a statement on “Hamas incursion and Israel’s disproportionate retaliation.” According to the statement, “we need to emphasize the political context if we hope to ever achieve a substantially just resolution and prevent further deaths and suffering. The context is clear. The Palestinians have never been at war with Jews; they have been resisting a unilateral settler colonial project whose declared aim is the take-over of their homeland, the transformation of Palestine into Israel and the erasure of the Palestinian people, its culture and heritage…We call on Israel to stop its genocidal revenge attacks on Gaza, and certainly not to mount a ground invasion. We call on progressive forces everywhere to change the narrative. No longer should we speak of a ‘conflict’ in which Palestinian resistance is criminalized and Israel’s expansion through military means is cast as its ‘right of self-defense.’”

Law4Palestine

On October 17, Law4Palestine held a webinar titled, “Gaza on the Brink: Israeli Genocidal Intent.”
On October 8, Law4Palestine published an article titled, “The Palestinian People have the right to resistance by all means available at their disposal.” According to the article, “Resistance by the Palestinian people by all means available at their disposal against an illegal occupying power is a legitimate act…As a consequence, third states are under the obligation to recognize the legitimacy of the Palestinian people’s resistance, and the State of Israel is under the obligation to refrain from persecuting Palestinians for legitimate resistance”

Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights

On October 13, LPHR published a legal brief on a “key component of Israel’s ongoing massive military response in Gaza following widespread atrocities perpetrated by Palestinian armed groups in Israel. The sheer scale of human suffering over the past six days is horrifying and immeasurable…Israel’s declaration of a total siege on Gaza, approved at the highest levels of Israel’s leadership, strongly appears to amount to a policy of starvation of the civilian population of Gaza.”
On October 10, LPHR published a statement claiming it is “acutely appalled by Israel’s military response to deliberately target scores of civilian homes in Gaza…Israel’s immediate military response demonstrates that it is again implementing its extremely controversial military policy of deliberately targeting family homes in Gaza.”

Palestinian Return Centre (PRC)

On October 7, PRC published a statement calling for the international community to “act without delay,” as “Israel alone is responsible for this escalation in the occupied Palestinian territory due to its continuous incursions into Al-Aqsa Mosque and violations of the rights of the Palestinian people to freedom of worship.”

Palestine Solidarity Campaign (PSC)

On October 14, PSC participated in a march to “demand the UK government end its support for Israel’s war crimes and apartheid rule over the Palestinian people.”
On October 13, PSC tweeted, “If people do leave their homes and try to go south, they know they are not safe from Israel’s attacks there. There is every reason to believe that Israel’s intention is to never allow them to return. Palestinians are rightly fearing another Nakba of mass ethnic cleansing.”
On October 13, PSC tweeted, “Israel is seeking to pre-emptively justify the likely mass slaughter of many thousands of civilians, on the basis  that they were warned to leave  and should do so if they care for their lives.”
On October 14, PSC will participate in a “March for Palestine…in solidarity with Palestine and to demand Israel end its occupation of Palestinian land and apartheid rule over the Palestinian people.”
On October 11, PSC tweeted, “You cannot on the one hand condemn Russia for its violations of international law via its illegal occupation of Ukraine, whilst giving the greenlight to another state overseeing a decades-long military occupation to commit further war crimes.”
On October 10, in an interview with Leading Britian’s Conversations, PSC Director Ben Jamel stated, “The content for everything going on is that the Palestinian people have been living under an on-going military occupation for decades now…If you are threatening a siege of a people, if you are threatening to cut off medical supplies, water and food, that is a war crime.”
On October 9, PSC published a statement claiming that “An offensive launched from Gaza can only be understood in the context of Israel’s ongoing military occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land, and imposition of a system of oppression that meets the legal definition of apartheid, which under international law constitutes a crime against humanity. Benjamin Netanyahu has declared that Israel is now at war with Palestinians, but the reality is that Israel has been waging a decades-long war, enacted to enforce a system of occupation, apartheid and colonisation.”
On October 9, PSC will “take to the streets to demand Israel end its violent imposition of a system of occupation, apartheid and colonisation over the Palestinian people.” According to PSC, “The offensive launched from Gaza can only be understood in the context of Israel’s ongoing, decades long, military occupation and colonisation of Palestinian land and imposition of a system of oppression that meets the legal definition of apartheid. This is the context in which we need to understand the cycle of violence. If violence is to end, both that of the oppressor and the oppressed, then we must all take action to end the root cause – Israeli apartheid and oppression of Palestinians.”

PAX

On October 13, PAX launched a petition calling on the Dutch Prime Minister to “not give Israel carte blanche.”

Rights Forum

On October 18, the Rights Forum published an article calling on the Dutch government to “pull the plug on military cooperation with Israel….You cannot work together with an army that indulges in violence against innocent civilians before everyone’s eyes. You also cannot purchase weapons from a company that uses the Gaza Strip as a laboratory to test them.”
On October 17, the Rights Forum, alongside Sabeel UK, and Tent of Nations, hosted a march at the House of Representatives in The Hague titled, “No Genocide in Gaza.”
On October 15, the Rights Forum published an article claiming, “As a target of Hamas rockets, the Israeli city of Sderot frequently makes the news. But the Palestinian village on which Sderot is built remains unnamed, even though it forms the core of Palestinian reality.” According to the article, “Israel is littered with Najds and Sderots – ethnically cleansed Palestinian communities between 1947 and 1952 that have been inhabited by Israelis ever since.”
On October 15, the Rights Forum held an event “in solidarity with the Palestinian victims of the Israeli bombings in Gaza.”
On October 13, the Rights Forum published a statement claiming, “The Netherlands opens the door to war crimes by Israel.” According to the statement, “Under the banner that Israel has ‘the right to defend itself’, the next disastrous chapter in the 75-year ‘conflict’ is being written. The Netherlands lets it happen.”
On October 9, the Rights Forum published a statement claiming, “With an attack from the Gaza Strip that was as sensational as it was brutal, the Palestinian Hamas movement caused a stir worldwide this weekend. It broke the stifling Israeli blockade that has turned Gaza into what has come to be called ‘the largest open-air prison in the world’ for 16 years.”
On October 9, the Rights Forum published a statement claiming, “The unwillingness to analyze the root causes of the ‘conflict’ and to equally respect the rights of the parties has created a situation in which the Palestinians no longer have any prospect of a future.”

Sadaka Ireland

On October 16, Sadaka Ireland tweeted, “#Israeli soldiers taken captive are prisoners of war, not hostages. Media, please distinguish between military personnel and civilians. #Gaza_under_attack.”
On October 12, Sadaka Ireland tweeted, “#Israel is without doubt a terrorist and criminal State. More than 400 dead Palestinian children in Gaza killed in an indiscriminate bombardment. Israel has used violence for 75 years to subdue and control Palestinians.”
On October 11, Sadaka Ireland posted on Facebook, “Western media’s racist propaganda is on steroids. The last time this happened against an Arab population, 1 MILLION Iraqis were killed! You are now being conditioned to accept Israel’s unfolding genocide against 2.3M Palestinians in Gaza.”
On October 7, Sadaka Ireland tweeted, “Leaders must acknowledge #Palestinians are attacked, ethnically cleansed and killed daily by #Israel and acknowledge decades of Palestinian suffering. Today’s events are inevitable outcome of Israeli crimes and int’l partisan inertia.”

Trocaire

On October 10, Trocaire published a statement claiming that “the indiscriminate bombing and the intentional attacks against the Palestinian civilian population and infrastructure such as hospitals and schools by the Israeli army also amount to war crimes…Imposing a total closure of the Strip amounts to collective punishment of an unprecedented scale..Decades of military occupation and 16 years of a blockade of the Gaza Strip, along with the systematic discrimination and oppression that Palestinians endure daily…There is an compelling need to address these root causes urgently and comprehensively.”

Union Juive Françaiqe pour la Paix (UJFP)

On October 15, UJFP activist Pierre Stambul published an article declaring, “Unquestionably, war crimes were committed. Amnesty International is credible in all circumstances, regarding this denunciation, as well as the fact that Israel is an apartheid state. On the other hand, stories of babies being disembowelled or decapitated are part of the propaganda. CNN journalists who arrived at the scene where this horror was supposed to have taken place, formally denied it” (translated from the original French).

Viva Salud

On October 9, Viva Salud published a press release claiming, “The military attack from Gaza comes as a surprise to many, but is a response to 75 years of Israeli colonisation, illegal occupation and apartheid.” The press release further called on “people to donate and support our partner organisation AWDA,” an organization with ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

War on Want

On October 18, War on Want tweeted, “Urgent pressure from citizens of conscience is needed to stop Israel’s apartheid regime from carrying out genocide of the Palestinian people. It is essential that the UK government and opposition parties do everything in their power to prevent it.”
On October 14, War on Want tweeted, “Israel is enacting an unfolding genocide in the Gaza Strip – supported by the UK government. We urgently need the UK govt to stop the slaughter and demand immediate ceasefire.”
On October 13, in an interview with Sky News, War on Want Direct Asad Rehman stated, “What we are about to witness is the total destruction of civilian infrastructure and the mass ethnic cleansing [of the Palestinian people].”
On October 13, War on Want called on individuals to contact their MP’s to tell them, “Palestinians are facing mass ethnic cleansing as Israel enacts brutal collective punishment on the occupied Gaza Strip.”
On October 13, War on Want tweeted, “The UK should be ending its shameful arms trade with Israel in the wake of these growing atrocities, not increasing its military complicity with Israel’s lethal violations of international law.”
On October 13, War on Want Director Asad Rehman tweeted, “Genocide academics say one of its steps is the deliberate dehumanisation & spreading of lies that normalise hatred against the ‘other’. The Palestinians have been ‘othered’ for decades by apartheid Israel & with the active support of media & western politicians. It’s racism 101.”
On October 13, War on Want Director Asad Rehman tweeted, “I urge everyone with an ounce of compassion and humanity to email their MP’s & urge them to help stop the killings of Palestinians & the proposed ethnic cleansing that Israel has threatened & the UK is supporting.”
On October 11, War on Want tweeted, “Israel is committing war crimes by subjecting Palestinians to humanitarian catastrophe as collective punishment. The UK must stop enabling war crimes and end all arms sales to Israel.”
On October 11, War on Want published a statement claiming, “This continuing cycle of violence is firmly rooted in Israel’s ongoing 75-year colonisation and illegal occupation, 16-year illegal blockade of Gaza and the maintenance of an apartheid state…Israel has a horrific track record of deliberately targeting civilians, using its military might and advanced military hardware to carry out disproportionate attacks, and indiscriminate attacks which kill or injure civilians can amount to war crimes. This oppression and brutality is carried out in service of maintaining Israel’s illegal occupation and apartheid regime, themselves violations of the basic human rights of the Palestinian people. It is therefore crucial that the UK government ends its complicity in these crimes by ending all arms sales to Israel.”
On October 10, War on Want tweeted, “This continuing cycle of violence is firmly rooted in Israel’s ongoing 75-year illegal occupation, 16-year illegal blockade of Gaza and the maintenance of an apartheid state.”
On October 10, War on Want tweeted, “Israel has a horrific track record of deliberately targeting civilians, using its military might and advanced military hardware to carry out disproportionate attacks, and indiscriminate attacks which kill or injure civilians, which can amount to war crimes.”
On October 10, War on Want tweeted, “This oppression & brutality is carried out in service of maintaining Israel’s illegal occupation & apartheid, themselves violations of the basic human rights of the Palestinian people. It is therefore crucial that the UK gov ends its complicity by ending all arms sales to Israel.”

United Nations

On October 16, UN Special Rapporteur on the “situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” Francesca Albanese wrote on Facebook, “The proportion of Israel’s response. Here is Gaza, now it’s almost like this. Things like this but to the worse extent he has done them 6 times in 15 years. Killing 6,800 civilians and 2000 children today in Gaza alone. Not to mention the brutality of the colonial occupation in West Bank, where the comparison between colonists and soldiers is daily…If you don’t recognize them as rights bearers, the problem is your selective outrage, and ethical elativism or racism…”
On October 15, UN Special Rapporteur on the “situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” Francesca Albanese tweeted, “Once again: I implore the UN to intervene for an immediate CEASEFIRE. There can be no more delay. Under int’l law, atrocity crimes must not only be punished but also prevented. The only possible meaning of ‘never again’ is simply this: never again, for any human being.”
On October 14, Albanese wrote on Facebook, “Ethnic cleansing is a constant reality in the life of the Palestinian people, unpredictable in their invisibility.”
On October 14, Albanese wrote on Facebook, “URGENT- Mass forced displacement of Palestinians has occurred in 1947/49 and 1967, and continued ever since, in less visible but not less painful forms. This time it risks to be as cruel as ever, under our watch, with some member states even risking to enable it. #CeasefireNow.”
On October 14, Albanese claimed, “Israel has already carried out mass ethnic cleansing of Palestinians under the fog of war…Again, in the name of self-defence, Israel is seeking to justify what would amount to ethnic cleansing…Any continued military operations by Israel have gone well beyond the limits of international law. The international community must stop these egregious violations of international law now, before tragic history is repeated. Time is of the essence. Palestinians and Israelis both deserve to live in peace, equality of rights, dignity and freedom.”
On October 13, Albanese tweeted, “Not the first time Israel uses white phosphorus on Gaza civilians. In 2009,the Goldstone report found it ‘reckless and unjustifiable in relation to any military advantage. Self-defense cannot be invoked to replace int’l law with brute force, and to justify war crimes.”
On October 14, Albanese posted on Facebook, “Ethnic cleansing is a constant reality in the life of the Palestinian people, unpredictable in their invisibility.”
On October 12, Albanese wrote on Facebook, “Overcoming the plight of settler-colonialism is hard, too much harm to the dispossessed colonised, by the oppression and dehumanization of the coloniser. Yet, it is a necessary process that requires a powerful decolosation of the mind: the mind of the settler component of the society first and foremost.”
On October 10, the UN Human Rights Council’s permanent “Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and in Israel” (COI) published a press release stressing, “The Commission is gravely concerned with Israel’s latest attack on Gaza and Israel’s announcement of a complete siege on Gaza involving the withholding of water, food, electricity and fuel which will undoubtfully cost civilian lives and constitutes collective punishment…In line with its previous findings, the Commission emphasises that the only path towards ending violence and achieving sustainable peace is through addressing the root causes of the conflict including through ending the illegal occupation of Palestinian territory and recognising the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination.”
On October 10, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the Occupied Palestinian Territory Lynn Hastings published a statement affirming that, “On 8 October, the Government of Israel declared war, launching intensive air strikes into the densely populated Gaza Strip over the past three days. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed and over two thousand now injured. The magnitude of the ongoing hostilities has led to grave humanitarian consequences…in accordance with the complete siege ordered by the Israeli Government on Gaza, access to electricity, food, and fuel have also been severed, inevitably worsening the already dire humanitarian situation.”
On October 9, UNICEF Executive Director Catherine Russell published a statement claiming that “Nothing justifies the killing, maiming or abducting of children – grave rights violations which UNICEF wholeheartedly condemns. Yet less than 72 hours after the outbreak of horrific violence in Israel, reports indicate that grave rights violations against children are rampant. Many children have been killed or injured, while countless others have been exposed to the violence.”
On October 9, in an interview with Al-Jazeera, Albanese stated, “I’m horrified by the narrative, by the discourse, because it’s possible and necessary to stand with both the Palestinians and the Israelis without resorting to ethical relativism, to selective outrage, or worse, calls for violence. This is something that has been ongoing for over six decades now, 56 years, just in the context of the occupation…the militarized settler colonial occupation that israel maintains entraps both people…What’s happening needs to be put in context, a context of decades of oppression imposed on the Palestinians. Brutalization, structural violence…human rights organizations have said all along that…continuing to oppress a population with total impunity would lead to a catastrophe, and this is what’s happening” (emphasis added).
On October 7, UN Special Rapporteur on the “situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967” Francesca Albanese tweeted, “Today’s violence must be put in context. Almost six decades of hostile military rule over an entire civilian population (incomprehensibly ignored by too many official statements & media outlets) are in themselves an aggression, and the recipe for more insecurity for all.”

Table of Contents

1) Joint Statements

2) International NGOs

3) Palestinian NGOs

4) Israeli NGOs

5) American NGOs

6) European NGOs

7) United Nations

Excerpts of Statements from NGOs

Joint Statements

Joint Statement by Oxfam GB, Action Against Hunger, War Child, Islamic Relief, Christian Aid, CAFOD, Plan International UK, Humanity and Inclusion, Action Aid UK, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Care International UK, Norwegian Refugee Council

Joint Statement by American Friends Service Committee, Churches for Middle East Peace, Church World Service, Mennonite Central Committee, Pax Christi USA, Presbyterian Church USA, United Church of Christ

Joint Statement by Adalah Justice Project, Al-Haq, CAIR, National Lawyers Guild, Palestine Legal, US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR)

Joint Statement by Al-Haq, Al Mezan, PCHR, ICHR, PNGO, Addameer, Bisan, MIFTAH, WCLAC, JLAC, WSC, UAWC, Hurryyat, DCI-P, ELSC, FIDH, CCR, EuroMed Rights, Rights Forum, PYALARA, PARC, YMCA, CODEPINK

Joint Statement by Kairos Palestine, Christ at the Checkpoint, Sabeel Ecumenical Center for Liberation Theology, The East Jerusalem YMCA, The YWCA of Palestine, The Department of Service to Palestinian Refugees of the Middle East Council of Churches

International NGOs

Action Aid

Amnesty International

Association of International Development Agencies (AIDA)

Human Rights Watch (HRW)

International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)

Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF, Doctors Without Borders)

Norwegian Refugee Council

Oxfam

Samidoun

Save the Children

World Council of Churches

Palestinian NGOs

Joint Statement by Al-Haq, Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC), MIFTAH, Independent Commission for Human Rights (ICHR), Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), Bisan Center for Research and Development, Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council (PHROC)

Joint Statement by Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS), Addameer, Human Rights & Democracy Media Center “SHAMS”, Palestinian Human Rights Organisation “PHRO”

Al-Haq/Al Mezan/Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) (PFLP linked, Funded by the EU and individual governments)

Addameer

Association for Woman and Child Protection (AISHA)

Al-Dameer

Al-Haq

Al Mezan

BADIL

BDS Movement

Bisan Center for Research and Development

Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS)

Defense for Children International – Palestine (DCI-P)

Hebron Rehabilitation Committee

Independent Commission for Human Rights

International Solidarity Movement (ISM)

Kairos Palestine

Masar Badil

Miftah

Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR)

Palestinian Medical Relief Society (PMRS)

Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO)

Palestinian Agricultural Relief Committees (PARC)

Sabeel

Stop the Wall

Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC)

Union of Palestinian Women’s Committees (UPWC)

Women’s Centre for Legal Aid and Counselling (WCLAC)

Israeli NGOs

7amleh

Adalah

B’Tselem

Breaking the Silence

Combatants for Peace

Gisha

Kerem Navot

Ofek

Zochrot

American NGOs

Adalah Justice Project

Al-Shabaka

American Friends Service Committee (AFSC)

American Muslims for Palestine (AMP)

Center for Constitutional Rights

Christian Peacemaker Teams

Church World Service

Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP)

CODEPINK

Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)

Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP)

IfNotNow

Jewish Voice for Peace