La Via Campesina calls on its member organisations and allies to strengthen their actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. In Palestine, the Israeli occupation regime is waging a genocidal war in Gaza while deepening its project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank. On 8 August, Netanyahu approved the seizure of Gaza City, the heart of the besieged enclave, confirming the plan to annihilate and fragment Palestinian society. Across the West Bank, the E1 settlement expansion around Ramallah, Bethlehem, and East Jerusalem; the destruction of the UAWC Seed Multiplication Unit in Hebron; the daily surge of armed settler terror; and the tightening matrix of checkpoints and settlement growth form part of a single strategy: to erase Palestinians from their land and dismantle their very existence.

In Gaza, famine is being deliberately engineered and weaponized. This is not humanitarian failure, but a war crime carried out with the full complicity of the United States and European powers. The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and the military “aid” airdrops are not aid – they are mechanisms of domination. They are tools of control designed to fragment and humiliate Palestinians, entrench dependency, and strip them of sovereignty over food, land, and life. This deliberate starvation and denial of humanitarian access constitute grave breaches of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity.

The European Union stands complicit in these crimes. One-third of the bombs dropped on Gaza are manufactured in Europe. Its silence and inaction make it a direct partner in genocide. The symbolic gestures by France and the UK to recognize a Palestinian state are not only meaningless – they are grotesquely inadequate while genocide unfolds in real time. Real solidarity requires immediate sanctions, the end of all military and trade cooperation with Israel, and accountability for war crimes under international law. Anything less is complicity.

We emphasize four types of action that are particularly important in the current context:

1. – Ensuring the support of numerous international volunteers for the autumn 2025 olive harvest in the West Bank. In the face of attacks by Israeli settlers and threats of complete annexation of the West Bank by the Israeli state, it is more essential than ever to come and support Palestinian farmers on the ground to enable them to access their fields. (Link to the UAWC campaign)

2 .– Support the ‘1000 Madleens for Gaza’ and ‘Global Sumud Flotilla’ campaigns to end the blockade on Gaza and demand unconditional access to humanitarian aid. We encourage activists from La Via Campesina member organisations and allied organisations to participate in these flotillas.

3. – Increase pressure at all levels to obtain sanctions against Israel:

• at the national level, by using legal means to sanction Israeli soldiers who participate in genocide, to block funds from Israeli decision-makers, to sanction companies that supply military equipment to Israel or import goods from illegal settlements, and more generally to ban trade with Israel; Working with other movements to block any shipment to Israel;
• at the international level, by encouraging states to join the Hague Group and to commit to the ‘Uniting for Peace’ resolution at the UN General Assembly in New York in September, in order to override the US veto in the Security Council and obtain the suspension of Israel from the United Nations through a vote by the UN General Assembly. Organisations can join ‘Friends of the Hague Group’ to urge their countries to join the Group, or to campaign for sanctions against Israel.
• at the European level, increase pressure on the EU to suspend its trade agreement with Israel. Support the Dutch proposal calling for an urgent review of the EU-Israel Agreement under Article 2 of the Agreement. The EU and its member states to stop their complicity and take concrete actions to stop this crime against humanity.

4. – We call for all the inclusion of Palestinian voice in all the talks and negotiations related to the future of Palestine. We urge all international institutions (e.g. United Nations and its bodies) and governments to include the Palestinian civil society organisations (CSOs) in processes and negotiations on Palestine.