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In light of the ongoing Israeli aggression against our Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip - including bombings, massacres, and the prevention of humanitarian aid from entering since March 2, 2025 - and the near-total depletion of food, medical supplies, fuel, and hygiene materials, the shutdown of bakeries and many community kitchens, the bombing of food and medicine warehouses and the water desalination plant, and the blocking of life-saving supplies such as polio vaccines, medicines, and nutritional supplements:
The Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network confirms that the Gaza Strip has entered an advanced stage of famine and warns of its catastrophic impact on the lives and health of civilians—especially children, women, and the elderly.
This is unfolding amid shameful international silence and alarming complicity, as the Israeli occupation government violates its international obligations as an occupying power, supported by the Israeli Supreme Court’s refusal to compel the government to allow entry of food, medicine, and humanitarian aid. As a result, the siege has tightened, and Israeli forces are acting without restraint, bombarding civilians and threatening the lives of over two million Palestinians, half of whom are children.
According to data from humanitarian organizations and the United Nations:
- 91% of Gaza Strip’s population is now classified as being in crisis levels of food insecurity (Phase 3 or higher), among them 345,000 people are in the most extreme phase (Phase 5),
- 92% of children aged 6 months to 2 years, along with breastfeeding mothers, are not receiving adequate nutrition—putting them at risk of lifelong health complications,
- 65% of people lack access to the minimum daily requirement of 6 litters of clean water for drinking and cooking.
The Ministry of Health in Gaza has also warned that 60,000 children urgently need treatment for malnutrition.
All of this confirms that we are not only facing an unprecedented humanitarian crisis but a systematic and deliberate crime that demands urgent international intervention. The Israeli apartheid regime is intentionally preventing the entry of food, medicine, and fuel, obstructing the work of relief organizations, and targeting their personnel—all as part of a cold-blooded policy aimed at a single goal: the eradication of the Palestinian people in Gaza Strip.
We demand:
- That the Palestinian Authority and the United Nations officially declare Gaza Strip a famine zone, and hold all responsible parties accountable for this unprecedented disaster threatening the lives of our people, particularly children and women.
- That countries intervene to provide international protection for the Palestinian people, open all crossings into Gaza Strip, and guarantee safe humanitarian corridors for the entry of aid and medical and relief personnel.
- That Israeli leaders be brought before the International Criminal Court on charges of genocide and using starvation as a weapon of war.
- That all military support to the Israeli government and army be suspended — especially from the United States and the European Union — and that weapons shipments be blocked from passing through the ports, airports, and territories of other countries, since these weapons are being used in widespread human rights violations.
- That the UN Security Council act immediately to impose international sanctions on Israel, to end the aggression and lift the blockade entirely. If the Council fails due to a veto, we call on the UN General Assembly to suspend Israel’s membership.
We welcome the statement from the UN Secretary-General, who rejected any Israeli plans to control or condition humanitarian aid distribution, stating that such actions violate the core principles of humanitarian work. We support his call to protect civilians and aid workers, end the war, and open the crossings.
We issue this appeal to address the situation before the humanitarian catastrophe worsens, leading to more deaths from famine and disease. We declare to the world that the Palestinian people will hold accountable—in the court of history—anyone who witnessed this genocide and failed to act to stop it.
How many Palestinian children must starve to death before the world acts? How many hospitals must collapse? How many doctors, paramedics, aid workers, children, and women must be killed before action is taken?
The Gaza Strip is crying for help… is anyone listening?
—Palestinian Non-Governmental Organizations Network
