Date: January 16, 2024
Urgent Appeal
The International Commission “Hashd”: Your intervention should not be delayed any longer to stop the largest genocide and ethnic cleansing committed by the Israeli occupation forces against the residents of the Gaza Strip. We call on the free people of the world to escalate popular and solidarity movements with the Palestinians, demanding support and protection for civilians, especially children, women, journalists, and medical teams. Activate accountability, boycott, and sanctions against the state and leaders of the Israeli occupation, preventing them from escaping punishment.
The International Commission “Hashd”: The ongoing catastrophic situation in Gaza means sacrificing the lives of 2.3 million people suffering from real famine, especially in northern Gaza, where the Israeli forces prevent humanitarian aid from entering. Every day, the death toll rises due to hunger, thirst, diseases, and environmental and health crises. The limited daily aid entering, covering less than 7% of the needs of Gaza’s residents under a suffocating blockade and collective punishment, is exacerbating the humanitarian disaster.
The International Commission “Hashd”: Over the past 102 days, more than 24,000 Palestinians have been documented as martyred, and around 8,000 others are missing, most under the rubble of their homes. Another part is in pieces and decomposed bodies on the streets. Sixty-two thousand citizens have been injured, with 70% of the victims being children and women. Eighty percent of Gaza’s civilian economic, agricultural, industrial, and infrastructural buildings have been destroyed or damaged by Israeli and American missiles, rendering Gaza an uninhabitable disaster zone and forcing its residents into forced migration.
The International Commission “Hashd”: The martyrdom of Yazen Al-Zu’aydi, a photographer for Al-Ghad Satellite Channel, raises the number of journalist martyrs to 119, confirming the deliberate targeting of journalists to obstruct media coverage of genocide crimes. Destruction of media institutions, satellite broadcasting vans, cutting communication and internet services, and preventing international journalists, the International Investigation Committee, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, and the Secretary-General of the United Nations, as well as international workers from UN agencies and humanitarian organizations, from reaching Gaza, underscores the occupation’s intent to hide facts and evidence. This requires international community action to force the Israeli authorities to stop targeting journalists, enable concerned parties to access the sector, and halt the cutting of communication and internet services.
The International Commission “Hashd”: The international community’s failure and delay in intervening to stop the Israeli aggression on Gaza, the West Bank, and Jerusalem make it lose its humanity. It allows the Israeli occupation to continue genocide, field killings, ethnic cleansing, forced displacement, retaliatory collective sanctions, aggression, war crimes, expanding colonial settlements, racial discrimination, invading Palestinian cities and camps, demolishing homes, destroying the environment, expanding arbitrary detentions, and tormenting prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons, as well as continuing attacks on religious sites and Judaization of the occupied city of Jerusalem.
The International Commission “Hashd”: The United Nations, high-contracting parties to the Geneva Conventions, international and regional organizations, and the free people of the world are urged to act to stop the Israeli aggression and genocide war, reinforce the resilience and protection of Palestinians, ensure the flow of humanitarian aid, medical supplies, relief, evacuate the wounded and sick, and lift collective sanctions on them. Support the just struggle of the Palestinian people for self-determination and the end of the occupation.
