Stop the genocide, do not be complicit, and take a stand that history will record in the face of Israeli fascism
Excellencies, Kings, Presidents, and Heads of Delegations participating in the United Nations General Assembly,
Esteemed representatives of the international community,
In just a few days, the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip will enter the third year of a comprehensive war of annihilation waged by Zionist fascism. Civilians—children, women, and the elderly—are being killed; homes are being demolished over the heads of their inhabitants; shelters are bombarded with lethal missiles; international organizations, humanitarian institutions, press offices, and ambulance teams are being targeted; and an unprecedented policy of starvation is being pursued, leading to the deaths of hundreds who were simply searching for food and medicine.
Although all United Nations bodies have described what is taking place in Gaza as genocide, no authority has yet succeeded in halting the ongoing cycle of killing. Neither the International Court of Justice has been able to stop the war and aggression, nor the International Criminal Court has deterred the perpetrators, nor have the various UN institutions translated their condemnations into effective measures—whether due to structural incapacity, the support that Israeli fascism receives from its ally, the United States, in the Security Council, or the complicity of certain Western states.
Today, as you gather in the General Assembly for its 80th session, the eyes of our oppressed people are upon you, with both hope and anguish, that Gaza and the atrocities committed there will be given the attention they deserve. Equally, they look to you to safeguard the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA), for which you bear legal responsibility, against the ongoing Israeli-American campaign aimed at undermining General Assembly Resolution 194 of 1948, which affirms the right of all Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties.
Excellencies,
One year ago, you adopted Resolution (10/24), which gave Israel one year to end its “illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territory.” Yet the Israeli occupation has persisted in defying the international will and international law, amid a failure that now threatens the credibility and legitimacy of the United Nations itself, particularly following repeated failures of the Security Council to act due to the American veto—the latest instance occurring on 18 September 2025.
On behalf of the “UNRWA Department of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,” and on behalf of millions of Palestinians dispersed across the globe, we submit this message, urging you to employ every available instrument of international law and diplomacy to put an end to the genocide in Gaza, and to empower international judicial mechanisms to perform their duties free from external pressure or interference, thereby ensuring accountability for Israeli war crimes. Confident that you will stand in defense of UNRWA, we call upon you to oblige Israel to annul the law recently passed by the Knesset banning UNRWA, and we emphasize the following points:
The inalienable right of Palestinian refugees to return to their homes and properties, as enshrined in Resolution 194, is not subject to negotiation or compromise. We affirm our adherence to UNRWA as the international custodian of the refugee question under its UN mandate (Resolution 302), and we reject all attempts to dismantle, reduce, or replace its role.
Urgent action is required to halt the genocide in Gaza, ensure the immediate entry of humanitarian and relief aid, and impose comprehensive international sanctions on Israel, including an arms embargo and suspension of military and political support. We further call upon the Secretary-General of the United Nations to invoke measures under Chapter VII against Israel, in line with calls already made by the President of Ireland and other states.
UNRWA’s mandate must be renewed and strengthened under Resolution 302, with secure and sustainable financing provided directly from the UN budget, free from political and financial conditionalities. We also urge the creation of an international coalition to guarantee both political and financial protection for UNRWA.
Excellencies,
The continuation of impunity, and the absence of accountability for Israel’s crimes, has only emboldened it to escalate further—threatening not only the Palestinian people but also regional and international stability. Silence in the face of these crimes is not neutrality; it is complicity. The United Nations must therefore rise to its historic responsibility to protect the Palestinian people, or else bear the burden of complicity in a genocide taking place in full view of the world.
We speak to you today on behalf of a people who have endured over seventy-seven years of oppression, war, and displacement, and who seek nothing but justice, freedom, dignity, and the right to return to their homeland.
Distinguished representatives of the world’s nations,
Let this 80th session of the General Assembly be remembered as a historic turning point. Either you stand for truth and justice—or you record yet another failure, a failure that will remain an indelible stain upon the conscience of humanity. Act now to stop the genocide, refuse complicity, and take a stand that history will honor in the face of Israeli fascism, whose danger today extends far beyond Palestine.