La Via Campesina urgently 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 through starvation in Gaza while deepening its project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) in its recent report of August 22 finally confirmed a famine (IPC Phase 5) in Gaza Governorate and projected that this catastrophe will expand to Deir al- Balah and Khan Younis Governorates by the end of September. The report highlighted that over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions (IPC Phase 5), characterised by starvation, destitution and death. Another 1.07 million people—54 percent of the population—are facing Emergency (IPC Phase 4), and 396,000 people (20 percent) are in Crisis (IPC Phase 3). To avert total catastrophe, the IPC called for an urgent and immediate ceasefire and end to the conflict to enable an unimpeded, large-scale humanitarian response to save lives.

This famine is being deliberately engineered and weaponized. It is not a 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.

An unprecedented land annexation is happening. 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.

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 urgently appeal to all the civil society organisations and movements globally to intensify mobilisation against this genocide, which uses hunger as a weapon of ethnic cleansing. The following actions are necessary in the current context:

  1. Increased global campaigns and mobilization of peasants, farmers’ and workers’ unions to intensify pressure on governments to act and end the genocide
  2. 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.

To the States/governments and multilateral institutions, to:

  1. Increase pressure at all levels to obtain sanctions against and end all political, military, and economic support to 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 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.
    • Stronger positions from Global South countries and pressure on Western governments.
  2. Activating the Uniting for Peace mechanism at the UN General Assembly
    • We encourage all 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.
  3. 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.