ICSPR calls for strengthening urgent humanitarian response, launching a comprehensive recovery and reconstruction plan, lifting the blockade, and holding the occupation accountable for its crimes

Date: October 12, 2025

Press Release
ICSPR calls for strengthening urgent humanitarian response, launching a comprehensive recovery and reconstruction plan, lifting the blockade, and holding the occupation accountable for its crimes

Two years have passed since the genocidal war waged by the Israeli occupation against the Gaza Strip, resulting in an unprecedented humanitarian catastrophe. The number of martyrs, wounded, and missing persons has exceeded a quarter of a million, while nearly 90% of homes, infrastructure, and service facilities have been destroyed. More than two million Palestinians have been displaced, living in dire conditions marked by hunger, thirst, lack of shelter, and the collapse of healthcare services.

This situation requires continued efforts by mediators and the international community to ensure the cessation of Israeli aggression and to prevent further humanitarian disaster in the Gaza Strip, as well as to guarantee accountability for Israeli leaders, the occupying state, and their partners before international courts. They must bear their criminal and civil responsibilities as a prerequisite for achieving justice for Palestinians and ensuring their right to life, dignity, freedom, and self-determination.

A ceasefire represents a necessary step but does not mark the end of the catastrophe or the crisis unless concrete measures are taken to ensure the complete lifting of the blockade, the opening of all crossings, the unimpeded entry of humanitarian aid, the restoration of essential services, and the rescue of what remains of the devastated social fabric.

The International Commission to Support Palestinian Rights (ICSPR) calls on the international community, the United Nations, and the States Parties to the Geneva Conventions to uphold their legal and moral obligations by establishing safe and permanent humanitarian corridors to deliver all essential needs to Gaza’s residents, enable UNRWA and international relief organizations to operate freely, support the establishment of field hospitals, shelters, and community kitchens, ensure the entry of journalists and international fact-finding missions, and facilitate the evacuation of the wounded for treatment.

ICSPR also believes that achieving national reconciliation and forming a committee to manage the relief, recovery, and reconstruction phases has become an urgent necessity to unify Palestinian efforts politically and on the ground, and to strengthen national resilience in the face of the grave threats to the Palestinian cause.

Accordingly, ICSPR:

• Calls for launching a comprehensive national and international plan for humanitarian response, recovery, and reconstruction, including the provision of tents, caravans, and aid supplies; the restoration of electricity, water, and desalination plants; the rebuilding of schools, hospitals, and road networks; compensation and reparations for victims; and the provision of financial and social support for displaced families, while ensuring the participation of civil society organizations in all stages of relief, recovery, and reconstruction.

• Stresses the importance of protecting civil peace and the social fabric by promoting the rule of law, ending all forms of insecurity and monopolization, implementing psychosocial support programs for women, children, persons with disabilities, and survivors, and fostering values of solidarity and community cohesion.

• Urges Arab and Islamic countries, as well as the free peoples and states of the world, to establish a permanent humanitarian and relief bridge to deliver aid, support the victims of genocide, finance economic and social recovery programs, and back legal efforts to prosecute Israeli war criminals before international courts. It also calls for launching a comprehensive reconstruction program in accordance with the Egyptian and Arab plans, with UN participation, and for supporting the convening of the Cairo Conference for Reconstruction and Recovery, while continuing efforts to ensure the complete lifting of the blockade, the consolidation of the ceasefire, the provision of international protection for the Palestinian people, and the fulfillment of their national rights to establish an independent state with Jerusalem as its capital.