This came in a statement by the organizations on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which falls on November 29th of each year.
The organizations that signed the statement are: Alkarama for Human Rights - Geneva, Association of Victims of Torture - Geneva, Alshehab Center for Human Rights - London, Free Voice for Human Rights - Paris, IFDI International - Belgium, Adalah Foundation for Human Rights - Istanbul, and Solidarity for Human Rights - Geneva.
The organizations affirmed their support for the measures announced by the International Court of Justice in the case brought before it against Israel.
She called for "the swift enforcement of arrest warrants issued by the International Criminal Court against the leaders of the occupation for their responsibility for committing the war crime of starvation as a method of warfare, in addition to crimes against humanity, including willful killing, persecution, and other inhumane acts," and stressed that "a lasting peace cannot be achieved without ending it completely and bringing its leaders to justice."
In November 2024, the court in The Hague issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former defense minister Yoav Gallant on charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza.
The organizations said that this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People comes "amid a fragile truce that has yet to end the humanitarian catastrophe facing more than two million people in the Gaza Strip."
She explained that "the people of Gaza are still deprived of the most basic necessities of life, food, water, health care, electricity and shelter, at a time when hundreds of thousands are living in the open and among the rubble after entire neighborhoods were razed to the ground as a result of the intensive Israeli bombing.
Since October 10, a ceasefire agreement in Gaza has been in effect after being signed between Hamas and Israel, as part of a plan by US President Donald Trump to end the war in Gaza.
The Israeli war of extermination in Gaza, which began on October 8, 2023 and lasted two years, left more than 70,000 martyrs and about 171,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, and massive destruction with reconstruction costs estimated by the United Nations at about $70 billion.
International organizations said that "mere solidarity and routine activities are no longer effective in light of the continuation of the Israeli occupation and its repressive policies, as the occupation is the root cause of the suffering of the Palestinian people."
She stated that the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People "is not just a symbolic occasion, but a global call to renew the moral and legal commitment towards a people who have been facing the worst forms of occupation, killing and siege for decades."
Human rights organizations stressed that "true solidarity begins with condemning violations, working hard to end impunity, and supporting the right of Palestinians to establish their fully sovereign state, end the occupation, and live in dignity and security on their land."
She stressed thatwhat the Palestinian territories, and especially the Gaza Strip, have been witnessing since October 2023, constitutes "a full-fledged genocide according to the definition contained in the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, and requires urgent and binding international action."
She called for "the world's governments and international bodies to play their role in pressuring the Israeli occupation authorities to respect international humanitarian law, stop targeting civilians, and allow the immediate and unconditional entry of humanitarian aid and rescue teams into the Gaza Strip without any restrictions or conditions."
International organizations also called for "supporting UN efforts to organize solidarity events, including the annual exhibition of Palestinian rights, highlighting the crimes committed against them, and encouraging countries to provide the widest possible media coverage for this occasion."
It reaffirmed "the right of the Palestinian people to self-determination and to establish their independent state on all Palestinian territory with Jerusalem as its capital, as an inalienable right that does not lapse with time."
