
click.actionnetwork.orgSign on to demand not only a permanent ceasefire, but next steps for Palestinians’ self-determination and other fundamental rights For over a year, activists and legal institutions around the world have demanded an immediate ceasefire in Gaza, but Israel’s officials have continued to block and sabotage each ceasefire deal. Now, an initial deal has been reached with the first phase including only a temporary ceasefire. Even after the truce began, we’ve seen Israel’s military kill Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank. The violence and genocide won’t stop until the United States—which is Israel’s biggest arms supplier by far—enacts an arms embargo. We’ve been demanding a permanent ceasefire, which is just the beginning: There are many more necessary steps beyond that to ensure Palestinians’ inalienable right to self-determination. Please sign on to demand the Israeli government not only approve a permanent ceasefire deal, but also fulfill the rest of its obligations under international law, including: ending its decades-long blockade on Gaza and ensuring unrestricted humanitarian aid into Gaza, withdrawing from all occupied Palestinian territories and stopping the ongoing annexation of more land, ending its 76-year-long practice of blocking Palestinian refugees from returning home, and paying reparations to Palestinians. More information: For over a decade Israel has limited and banned imports and exports into and out of Gaza, controlled Gaza residents’ access to survival needs like food and water and electricity, and blocked Palestinians from leaving or returning to Gaza—including by destroying Gaza’s port and airport and maintaining full control of the waters on Gaza’s shores, which even extends to controlling Palestinians’ ability to fish to survive. These conditions left Palestinians in Gaza hungry and destitute long before the escalation into genocide. Over a year ago, the International Court of Justice—the world’s top court—ordered the Israeli government to “take immediate and effective measures to enable the provision of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance to address the adverse conditions of life faced by Palestinians in the Gaza Strip” and take other steps to prevent genocide. As human rights organizations like Amnesty International have made clear, Israel’s government “failed to take even the bare minimum steps to comply,” instead engineering a famine and widespread starvation in Gaza, while destroying Gaza’s healthcare system, agricultural lands, access to clean water, infrastructure, and other necessary conditions to sustain life. It will take many years and many billions of dollars to rebuild and recover from these genocidal war crimes, and in the meantime many more Palestinians will die from the ongoing impacts of Israel’s near-total destruction of essential services. Last summer, the International Court of Justice ruled that Israel’s government is guilty of apartheid and demanded that Israel dismantle illegal settlements and end its illegal presence in the occupied Palestinian territories “as rapidly as possible”—including Gaza, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Israel’s government tightly controls many aspects of Palestinians’ lives, including in the West Bank, restricting Palestinians’ movement and ability to build homes and other civilian infrastructure. The International Court of Justice’s July 2024 ruling also demanded Israel provide reparations to Palestinians and let Palestinian refugees return to their homeland. Last fall, the vast majority of nations in the United Nations voted to support a Palestine-led resolution echoing the main demands from the International Court of Justice’s July ruling: that the Israeli military must immediately withdraw from the occupied Palestinian territories, allow Palestinians the right of return, and pay reparations to Palestinians. That UN resolution also calls on UN Member States such as the United States to comply with international law by implementing sanctions and withholding assistance (including weapons) to Israel. Countries are legally obligated to end their illegal complicity in Israel’s apartheid, occupation, war crimes, and genocide against Palestinians.