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Amid mounting interest astir the remorseless attacks by Israel against the civilian colonisation successful Gaza, which, since October 7, 2023, person reportedly led to the deaths and injuries of implicit 227,000 Palestinians and the displacement, successful the past 2 weeks, of much than 400,000 people, 325 erstwhile European Union and Member State Ambassadors and Senior Officials are calling for urgent action.
We powerfully impulse the EU to instantly enforce targeted sanctions connected the Israeli authorities and suspend the EU-Israel Association Agreement. In addition, we impulse the President of the United Nations General Assembly and the Chair of the United Nations Security Council to convene exigency meetings of some bodies to follow sanctions against Israel for the aggregate violations of planetary instrumentality being perpetrated regular against the radical of Palestine. The United Nations, being the established planetary assemblage for bid and security, indispensable unrecorded up to its responsibilities.
We cannot basal idly by, watching Gaza reduced to rubble and its inhabitants driven into destitution and starvation. The contented is whether the EU and like-minded nations volition basal up for basal humanity and for the values that underpin the post-war planetary order. Action needs to beryllium taken urgently to sphere life, extremity the subject onslaught successful Gaza, unafraid the instrumentality of each hostages, and determination to governance arrangements that let for a swift instrumentality of the Palestinian Authority to Gaza arsenic a indispensable measurement towards a unified and democratically elected Palestinian government.
We request that EU leaders respond urgently to the information that, successful caller days, the actions of the Israeli service person escalated to different level, with the bombardment of Gaza City successful pursuit of the openly declared Israeli authorities argumentation of clearing the colonisation retired of the metropolis and forcing the displacement of a cardinal and a fractional radical wrong oregon adjacent extracurricular the territory.
In addition, an engineered, man-made famine is unfolding successful Gaza, already affecting 500,000 people. Severe malnutrition is rife, and much than 130 children person starved to death, contempt the International Court of Justice’s provisional findings successful February 2024 successful the lawsuit brought against Israel, which required each States to instrumentality enactment to guarantee that capable humanitarian supplies scope Gaza. Finally, Israel has blatantly ignored the United Nations General Assembly Resolution of September 18, 2024 calling for an extremity to its amerciable concern of Gaza and the West Bank, alternatively doubling down by annexing further swathes of Palestinian territory.
While noting the European Commission’s recently announced proposals for constricted measures against Israel, our condemnation is that the EU’s institutions and its Member States indispensable enactment acold much decisively to uphold planetary instrumentality and support quality rights, notably by suspending the EU-Israel Association Agreement, ceasing the export and import of arms and subject equipment, banning imports from Israel’s amerciable settlements, restricting entree to EU co-financed programmes, and urging Israel’s different cardinal commercialized partners, including successful the Global South, to travel suit. They indispensable besides enforce contiguous targeted sanctions connected Israel’s governmental and subject enactment and each those complicit successful and liable for warfare crimes, ensuring accountability.
In addition, we impulse the 13 EU Member States that person not yet done truthful to articulation some the 147 UN Member States who person already recognised the State of Palestine, and those who person announced they volition bash truthful astatine the ongoing United Nations General Assembly meeting, including France, Belgium, Malta, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia. Furthermore, the EU indispensable show governmental and diplomatic enactment wrong each UN bodies and successful partnerships with the Global South, Arab States and determination powers, to unit Israel into compliance with its planetary obligations.
It indispensable besides enactment and fortify the Global Alliance for the Implementation of the Two-State Solution, the cardinal level for a sustainable governmental solution allowing Palestinians and Israelis to coexist successful bid and security, and request that the US rescind decisions preventing authoritative representatives of Palestine and the UN from engaging successful dialog astatine the United Nations General Assembly.
The heinous attacks of 7 October 2023 by Hamas and others against Israeli citizens, on with the continuing detention of hostages, tin ne'er warrant the retribution wreaked connected Gaza, which is becoming the graveyard of planetary instrumentality and cosmopolitan quality rights. Reckless subject assaults of the benignant committed by Israel connected the sovereign territory of Qatar, a cardinal subordinate successful ceasefire talks, unneurotic with the deficiency of effectual action, volition condemn generations of some Palestinians and Israelis to perpetual suffering and proceed to destabilise the portion and beyond. It is incumbent connected each of us, arsenic planetary citizens, to request from our leaders thing little than the afloat exertion of planetary law. The clip to enactment is now.
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