Dear comrades and friends,
We send you our warmest greetings as we stand at the threshold of a new phase in the path of our national cause. This message reaches you with the launch of the first phase of the U.S. President’s proposal to halt the war in the Gaza Strip, providing an initial glimpse into the severe humanitarian reality experienced by our people following the temporary pause in the war of extermination.
The Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP), together with the masses of our people in the homeland and in exile, follows closely the beginning of the first phase of the U.S. President’s proposal to halt the war in the Gaza Strip, and the return of hundreds of thousands of displaced persons to their devastated areas.
At this critical juncture, all eyes are on the Israeli occupation and its actual commitment to stopping the aggression—especially since our long experience with it proves that it does not honor agreements or commitments. Israel has repeatedly sabotaged international initiatives that could have ended the war since early 2024, from President Biden’s proposal in July 2024, to the January 2025 agreement, and finally the proposal presented by U.S. Envoy Steve Witkoff in May 2025.
The continuation of this war was not the result of political or negotiation failures, but rather the direct outcome of a Zionist extermination mindset that denies the Palestinian people’s rights and national existence, and seeks to impose new realities through destruction and mass killing, under explicit American support. The result has been catastrophic: a war of genocide unprecedented in modern history in its brutality and the scale of devastation it has caused.
Today, as residents begin returning to their areas, the reality appears even more horrific than what cameras and reports have shown:
• Thousands of martyrs remain under the rubble of destroyed homes, with debris estimated by international organizations at over 50 million tons.
• Entire lives have vanished: homes, schools, universities, hospitals, and places of worship have been reduced to ruins. Those returning search among the wreckage for traces of the lives that once existed.
• Systematic and total destruction: over 90% of the civilian infrastructure has been obliterated, and 300,000 housing units have been leveled to the ground. Around two million people are now living in tents—without water, electricity, or security.
• Documented crimes: human rights organizations have recorded the Israeli army’s deliberate destruction of residential areas through the daily detonation of dozens of booby-trapped vehicles loaded with hundreds of tons of explosives, particularly in Gaza City and Jabalia.
Although the proposal to end the war has been announced, holding Israeli leaders and soldiers accountable for their crimes remains a moral, humanitarian, and political duty for all free peoples of the world. Accountability must proceed in parallel with pressure on the states that continue to arm Israel, fund its aggression, and shield it politically.
Accordingly, the Department of International Relations of the DFLP emphasizes the following points:
• To ensure that the genocide does not resume, and to lift the blockade on the Gaza Strip completely, as it constitutes an integral part of the territory of the independent State of Palestine.
• To continue the struggle in all fields and international forums—official and popular—to isolate the Israeli occupation, hold it accountable for its crimes, and prevent it from escaping punishment.
• To escalate legal and popular actions against the states and companies complicit in arming Israel or granting it political cover, and to consider them direct partners in war crimes and acts of genocide.
• To regard the battle of relief, reconstruction, and recovery in Gaza as a shared humanitarian responsibility, and to call upon progressive forces and humanitarian organizations worldwide to support and assist the people of Gaza in rebuilding their lives.
Our struggle against Israeli fascism will continue as long as the occupation persists on our land. Our goal remains clear: to end the occupation and ensure the departure of all settlers from the Palestinian territories occupied in 1967, to establish the independent State of Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital, and to guarantee the right of return for Palestinian refugees in accordance with UN Resolution 194.
We call upon all friendly parties, movements, and popular organizations around the world to stand in active solidarity, to continue joint efforts in defense of freedom, justice, and the right of peoples to self-determination—foremost among them, the Palestinian people, who continue their just struggle for life, dignity, and sovereignty on their national land.