The following is an abridged version of a statement issued by the Palestinian People’s Party on September 22.
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The intensification of Israel’s ongoing unprecedented and wide-ranging war crimes of genocide in the Gaza Strip for nearly two consecutive years — using all types of modern weaponry, including internationally prohibited weapons — alongside a suffocating siege, deliberate starvation and the denial of basic food, medicine and all necessities of life, has resulted in the killing, injury or disappearance of no fewer than 230,000 Palestinian civilians, while 2.1 million civilians suffer extreme hunger.
Accordingly, the Palestinian People’s Party issues this call for all progressives to urgently compel the Israeli occupation government and its fascist system to immediately end the ongoing genocide against our people in Gaza, to save lives.
This requires action on the following:
• Expand and intensify all forms of popular and official protests against the comprehensive genocide, siege and forced displacement imposed on our people, and exert maximum pressure on the United States administration and its allies to compel Israel to stop its bloody war.
• Impose a total ban on the supply of all types of weapons to Israel and cancel all agreements in this regard.
• Boycott Israeli products and institutions across all sectors, end normalisation, cut ties at every level and in all fields, halt investments in Israel and impose sanctions on it.
• Compel international bodies, especially the UN Security Council and General Assembly, to implement international law — foremost the Fourth Geneva Convention of 1949 in all occupied Palestinian territories — and to uphold the advisory opinion of the International Court of Justice, fulfilling their obligations under international law by taking serious and concrete measures to end Israel’s occupation and to implement UN resolutions on Palestinian rights.
• Demand that UN member states expel Israel from the UN and all its agencies and organisations, and work to isolate it as an occupying and terrorist power guilty of all forms of war crimes and genocide against humanity, while rejecting recognition of any changes it has imposed on the status of occupied Palestinian land.
• Pursue and arrest Israeli war criminals to bring them before international courts for their war crimes and genocide against humanity, and take all necessary measures at every level to end Israel’s and its leaders’ ongoing impunity.