We have witnessed unfathomable death and destruction in the Gaza Strip and Israel. Thousands of people have been killed, injured, displaced, and nearly two hundred remain held hostage, including children and elderly.
In Gaza, the UN has said that water, food, fuel, medical supplies, and even body bags, are running out due to the siege. The UN warned that people – particularly young children – will soon start dying of severe dehydration. Neighbourhoods have been destroyed and turned into complete rubble. Palestinians in search of safety have nowhere to go. Many of those who relocated from northern Gaza to the south after the relocation order by the Israeli army were reportedly bombed as they attempted to flee or once they arrived in southern Gaza.
The events of the last week have led us to the precipice of a humanitarian catastrophe and the world can no longer wait to act. It is our collective responsibility.
On Sunday, October 15th, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator to the Occupied Palestinian Territory appealed to all parties to the conflict, and to Member States with influence, to urgently agree to a humanitarian ceasefire.
Today, we put our voices together and call on all Heads of State, the UN Security Council, and actors on the ground, to prioritize the preservation of human life above all else. During this ceasefire, we call on all parties to unconditionally:
- Facilitate the delivery of lifesaving assistance, including food, medical supplies, fuel, and the resumption of electricity and internet to Gaza, in addition to safe passage of humanitarian and medical staff
- Free all civilian hostages, especially children and elderly
- Allow humanitarian convoys to reach UN facilities, schools, hospitals, and health facilities in northern Gaza and commit to protecting them along with the civilians and staff inside them at all times
- Rescind orders by the Government of Israel for civilians to depart northern Gaza
- Allow patients in critical condition to be medically evacuated for urgent care
The UN Security Council, the UN Secretary General and all world leaders with influence must take immediate action to ensure a ceasefire comes into effect. It remains our only option to avert further loss of civilian life and humanitarian catastrophe. Anything less will forever be a stain on our collective conscience.
Civilians are not bargaining chips. Families need a chance to bury and mourn their dead. The cycle of violence against innocent civilians needs to stop.
Signatories:
- 11.11.11
- 38 Degrees
- 50:50 NI
- ABCD Bethlehem
- Abductees Mothers Association
- Academic Foundation for Peace-Conflict Studies
- ACAT France
- Access Now
- ACT Alliance
- ACT Church of Sweden
- ACT Conflict Resolution
- ACTION AGAINST HUNGER
- Action Corps
- Action For Humanity
- ActionAid International
- ActionAid Sweden
- Africa4Palestine
- Africans Rising
- Afro-Middle East Centre
- Agaji Global Unity Foundation, Nigeria
- Agriculture Developmrnt Associations PARC
- Ahimsa Peace Institute
- AIDOS – Associazione Italiana Donne per lo Sviluppo ETS
- Ajyal Foundation for Education
- Al Basma Club for the Disabled
- Al-Nidal Association for Human Rights
- Al-Rifqa Organization for Community Peace
- Alfaf for development and reconstruction
- Alliance Internationale -AIDL
- Alquds center for Political Studies
- American Friends Service Committee
- Americans for Justice in Palestine Action (AJP Action)
- Americares
- Amis de Sabeel France
- Amos Trust
- AMREF Health Africa
- Anera
- Another Europe is Possible
- ANT-Hiroshima
- AOI
- Applied Research Institute-Jerusalem
- Arab Foundation for Civil Society and Human Rights
- Arab NGO Network for Development
- Armadilla Scs
- ARSIS Association for the Social Support of Youth
- Asamblea de Cooperación por la Paz
- Asia Pacific Network for International Education and Values Education (APNIEVE)-Philippines
- Asociación de Familiares de Presos y Desaparecidos Saharauis (Asociacón de Familiares de Presos y Desaparecidos Saharauis (AFAPREDESA)
- Asociación Española de Investigación para la Paz (AIPAZ)
- Asociación Otra Escuela
- Association for Rengein Tanjoji International Cooperation
- Association Ifriqiya
- Association of War Affected Women
- ASSOPACEPALESTINA
- Avaaz
- Baptist Union of Wales
- Basmeh & Zeitooneh for Relief and Development
- Baytna
- BELaady Organization for Human Rights
- Belgian Academics and Artists for Palestine
- Berufsverband der Präventologen e.V.
- bina
- Bond, the UK network for INGOs
- Broederlijk Delen
- Buddhist Alliance for Non-Violence and Human Rights in Israel-Palestine (BANVAHR)
- Bytes For All, Pakistan
- Caesar Families Association
- CAFOD
- Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies
- Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME)
- CARAS
- Care International
- Carolina Peace Center
- CCFD-Terre Solidaire
- Ceasefire Centre for Civilian Rights
- Center for Civilians in Conflict (CIVIC)
- Center for Human Rights in Iran
- Center for Peace Education, Miriam College
- Center for Victims of Torture
- Central Asian Network on Statelessness
- Centre for Human Rights & Civic Education (CHRICED)
- Centre for Peace Research and Advocacy -CPRA
- Centro MOndialità Sviluppo Reciproco
- CESVI
- cfd – The feminist Peace Organisation
- Change Horizons Forum
- Charity & Security Network
- Child Rights International Network (CRIN)
- ChildArise
- ChildFund Alliance
- Children and Families Across Borders
- Christian Aid Ireland
- Christian Aid UK
- Christian Jewish Allies for a Just Peace in Israel/Palestine
- Church and Peace – Ecumenical peace church network in Europe
- Church World Service
- Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP)
- CIDSE
- CISP
- CISS – COOPERAZIONE INTERNAZIONALE SUD SUD
- City of Sanctuary Sheffield
- CIVICUS
- Civil Rights Program Kosovo
- Climate Action Network (CAN) Africa
- Climate Refugees
- Clowns without Borders Sweden
- CNCD-11.11.11
- Coalition Against Trafficking in Women Asia Pacific
- Coexist Community kitchen CIC
- Committee of the Families of the Kidnapped and Disappeared in Lebanon (CFKDL)
- Committee to Protect Journalists
- Community Empowerment for Peace and Development West Nile (CEPAD-WN)
- Community Organized Relief Network (CORE)
- Concerned Families of Westchester (NY)
- Consortium on Gender, Security, and Human Rights
- COPE Cooperazione Paesi Emergenti
- Cordaid
- Corporate Europe Observatory (CEO)
- COSPE
- Cotidiana Mujer AFM
- Council for Arab-British Understanding
- Council on American-Islamic Relations
- Counterpoints Arts
- CRIC – Centro Regionale d’Intervento per la Cooperazione ETS
- Crisis Management Association
- Cultura è libertà, una campagna per la Palestina
- Culturel Center Beethoven Bettounssi
- Cyprus Refugee Council
- DanChurchAid
- Danish Refugee Council
- Daraj Media
- Dawlaty
- DC Peace Team
- Dedar organization
- DEFENCE FOR CHILDREN INTERNATIONAL
- Défense des Enfants International – Belgique
- Defense Foundation for Rights and Freedom
- Delawareans for Palestinian Human Rights
- Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN)
- Democracy School
- Denis Hurley Peace Institute
- Deutsch-Palsätinensiche Gesellschaft (DPG) e.V.
- Diakonia
- Diverse Voices and Action (DIVA) for Equality
- Dóchas
- docP – BDS Netherlands
- Economistas sin Fronteras
- EducAid
- Educo Member of ChildFund Alliance
- EL SPACE
- Embrace the Middle East
- empowervan
- English for Action (EFA) London
- Entraide & Fraternité
- Episcopal Relief & Development
- Equal Legal Aid
- EQUALITY NOW
- Equipop
- Escola de Cultura de Pau (School for a Culture of Peace)
- Eşit Haklar İçin İzleme Derneği
- Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor
- EuroMed Rights
- European Alternatives
- European Anti-Poverty Network (EAPN)
- European Centre for the Responsibility to Protect (ECR2P)
- European Coordination of Committees and Associations for Palestine – ECCP
- European Network on Statelessness
- Farmers and Herders Initiative for peace and development Fhipd
- Fédération Internationale pour les droits humains (FIDH)
- Fellowship of Reconcilation – USA
- Feminist Humanitarian Network (FHN)
- Feminist Task Force
- Fenix Humanitarian Legal Aid
- Fields of Peace
- Finnish-Arab Friendship Society
- Foro Ciudadano Relaciones Celac-UE
- Forum Civil Peace Service (forumZFD)
- ForumCiv
- Foundation for Human Rights Initiative (FHRI)
- France Palestine Mental Health Network
- Friends Committee on National Legislation
- Friends of Nablus and Surrounding areas (FONSA)
- FUNDACIÓN CEPAIM ACCIÓN INTEGRAL CON MIGRANTES
- Fundación Cultura de Paz
- Fundación ISCOD – Sindicalistas sin fronteras
- FUNDACIÓN MUNDUBAT
- Futuro en Común
- Gandhi Development Trust Phoenix Settlement Trust
- Gender Action for Peace and Security
- Gender Advisory Team
- Gender Studies and Information Organization ~GSIO
- Genera: Red de mujeres feministas por la equidad de género en el desarrollo
- Global Campaign for Equal Nationality Rights
- Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
- Global Communities
- Global Fund for Women
- Global Health Italian Network
- Global Justice Center
- Global Justice Now
- Global Link
- Global Network Against Weapons & Nuclear Power in Space
- Global Network of Women Peacebuilders (GNWP)
- Global Rights
- Global Witness
- GPPAC Pacific-Pacific Women Mediators Network
- Graduate Women International
- Greek Council for Refugees (GCR)
- Greek Forum of Migrants
- Haliéus
- Handicap International – Humanity & Inclusion
- Hawai’i Institute for Human Rights
- Health Justice Initiative (HJI) South Africa
- Health Poverty Action
- HEKS/EPER – Swiss Church Aid
- Helen Suzman Foundation
- HelpAge Interational
- HIAS
- Hivos
- Hope and Homes for Children
- Hope Society (India)
- Human Life Foundation for Development and Relief
- Human Rights & Democracy Media Center “SHAMS”
- Human Rights Sentinel
- Humance Heal For Human Rights
- Humans for Rights Network
- Husna Foundation
- ICAHD Finland
- ICERAS
- ICNA Council for Social Justice (ICNA CSJ)
- IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation
- IM Swedish Development Partner
- In Place of War
- In Transformation Initiative
- Ina autra senda – Swiss Friends of Combatants for Peace
- INGO ALG CONSULTING GROUP
- Innovation for Change – Middle East and North Africa
- Innovation for Change – South Asia
- Institute for Policy Studies – New Internationalism Project
- Institute for Security Studies
- Institute on Statelessness and Inclusion
- International Center for Transitional Justice (ICTJ)
- International Federation for Human Rights
- International Federation for Rights and Development
- International Fellowship of Reconciliation (IFOR)
- International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War (IPPNW)
- International Press Institute
- International Rescue Committee
- International Treatment Preparedness Coalition – Global
- INTERSOS
- IPMHN Ireland Palestine Mental Health Network
- IPPNW Germany
- IPPNW Regionalgruppe Nürnberg-Fürth-Erlangen
- Iraqi Alamal Association
- Iraqi Women Network
- Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign
- Islamic Center of Boca Raton
- Islamic Center of Detroit
- Islamic Center of Yorba Linda
- Islamic Relief
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions (ICAHD)
- Israeli Committee Against House Demolitions UK- UK
- Israelisches Komitee gegen Hauszerstörungen (ICAHD) Germany
- Itar for Social Development
- Japan Campaign to Ban Landmines
- Japan international Volunteer Center(JVC)
- Japan NGO Center for International Cooperation (JANIC)
- Jewish Network for Palestine
- Jewish Voice for Democracy and Justice in Israel/Palestine jvjp, Switzerland
- Jewish Voice for Labour
- Jewish Voice for Peace Albuquerque
- Jewish Voice for Peace Central Ohio
- Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council
- Jews Against the Occupation Sydney
- JOICFP (Japanese Organization for International Cooperation in Family Planning)
- Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants
- Joud Foundation for Sustainable Development – Yemen
- Jusoor Center for Studies and Development
- Just Foreign Policy
- Kairos Palestine
- Kairos Palestine – Sweden
- Kairos Sabeel Netherlands
- Kenya Human Rights Commission
- Kesh Malek
- Khulumani Support Group (supporting victims and survivors of gross human rights violations)
- Kırkayak Kültür
- KnK Japan
- KURVE Wustrow – Centre for Training and Networking in Nonviolent Action e.V.
- La Coordinadora de ONGD -España
- Law Center of Advocates
- Lawyers Committee on Nuclear Policy
- Lawyers for Palestinian Human Rights
- Lebanese Union for persons with physical disability/Arab forum for the rights of persons with disabilities
- Legal Action Worldwide (LAW)
- Liberian Energy Network
- Libya Crimes Watch (LCW)
- Libyan Anti-Torture Network
- Ligue Algérienne de Défense des Droits de l’Homme – LADDH
- Lutheran World Federation
- MADRE
- Malala Fund
- Malaysian Medical Relief Society (MERCY Malaysia)
- Marib Girls Foundation
- Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns
- Medact
- Médecins du Monde Belgique
- Médecins du Monde International Network
- Medecins Sans Frontières (MSF)
- MedGlobal
- Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP)
- Medical Association for Prevention of War (MAPW), Australia
- medico international germany
- medico international schweiz
- Medicus Mundi Italia
- Mehad
- MENA Statelessness Network (Hawiati)
- Mennonite Central Committee U.S.
- Mercy Corps
- Mercy-USA for Aid and Development
- Middle East and North Africa Partnership for Preventing of Armed Conflict – MENAPPAC
- Middle East Children’s Alliance
- Middle East Nonviolence and Democracy (MEND)
- Migrant Roots Media
- Min Haqi Foundation to empower women politically and economically
- Misereor
- Missionaries of the Sacred Heart Justice and Peace Centre (Australian Province)
- Mizan, Law Group for Human Rights
- Mouvement Social
- Movement of Asylum Seekers in Ireland (MASI)
- Musaala Organisation for Human Rights
- Muslim Aid
- Muslim Delegates and Allies
- Muslim Legal Fund of America
- Muslim Peace Fellowship
- Mwatana for Human Rights
- My Vote Counts
- Naseef Muallem
- National Cancer Control Foundatin – Yemen
- Nationality For All
- Nederlands Palestina Komitee
- Network for Children’s Rights
- Network of the Independent Commission for Human Rights in North Africa
- NGO SPES
- NGOs Platform of Saida – Tajamoh
- Nobel Women’s Initiative
- Nonviolence Network in the Arab Countries
- Nonviolent Peaceforce
- Nophotozone
- North American Imams Fellow
- North West Migrants Forum
- Northern Friends Peace Board
- Norwegian Church Aid
- Norwegian Refugee Council
- Ofogh NGO
- Oikos Cooperação e Desenvolvimento
- OMCT Tunisia
- Organization for Policy Research and Development Studies (DROPS)
- Outright International
- Oxfam
- Palestinian Human Rights Organisation “PHRO”
- PARCIC
- PASS Foundation – Peace for Sustainable Societies
- PAX
- Pax Christi Australia
- Pax Christi Flanders
- Pax Christi International
- Pax Christi Pilipinas
- Pax Christi USA
- Peace & Justice (Scotland)
- Peace and Freedom ORG ( PFO)
- Peace Boat
- Peace Committee, 15th St. Friends Meeting, NYC
- Peace Direct
- Peace Organization for Building Community Cohesion, Nineveh Office
- Peace Organization for Peaceful Coexistence
- Peace Watch Switzerland
- Peace Winds Japan
- Peacemaker Trust
- PELDA
- PEN Malta
- Permanent Peace Movement
- Physicians for Human Rights Israel
- Piattaforma OSC italiane in Medio Oriente e Mediterraneo
- Plan International
- Plan International USA
- Plateforme des ONG françaises pour la Palestine
- Première Urgence Internationale
- Project on Middle East Democracy
- Protection Approaches
- Public Aid Organization
- PVE for Peace
- PVE Works
- Quakers in Britain
- Rainbow Refugees NI
- RAPAR (Refugee and Asylum Seeker Participatory Action Research)
- REACT Disaster Response
- Rebuilding Alliance
- Reclaim The Sea
- Red Dot Foundation Global
- ReFOCUS Media Labs
- RefuAid
- Refugee Resilience Collective
- Refugee Support Group
- Relief International
- Resource Centre for Human Rights & Civic Education (CHRICED)
- ReThinking Foreign Policy
- Revista La Mar de Onuba
- Right to Movement Palestine
- Rights Realization Centre
- Roma Active Albania
- Roma Youth Organization “Walk with us – Phiren Amenca”
- Romanian Peace Institute – PATRIR
- Roshanka
- Sabeel
- Sabeel Kairos Norway
- Sabeel-Kairos UK
- Safe Passage International
- Saferworld
- Salam for Democracy and Human Rights
- Salam For Yemen
- SALAM NGO
- SAM Organization for Rights and Libertie
- Sanad alBasra Organization for Human Rights
- Save the Children
- Sawa for Development and Aid
- SB Overseas Soutien Belge
- Schengen Peace Foundation
- Search for Common Ground
- Secours Islamique France (SIF)
- Secure Scotland
- SEDRA-FEDERACIÓN PLANIFICACIÓN FAMILIAR
- SEEN.TV
- Seenaryo
- Sheba Youth Foundation
- Shining Star educational organization of Afghanistan
- Shma Koleinu – Alternative Jewish Voices of NZ
- Social Development Hodeida Girls Foundation
- Social Impact Movement
- SOLARIS
- Solidaridad Internacional Andalucia
- Solutions for a Small Planet
- SOS Children’s Villages International
- SOS Children’s Villages Netherlands
- SOS Children’s Villages Palestine
- Sphere
- Spirituality & Sustainability Global Network
- Statefree
- Ster
- Stichting Vluchteling
- STOPAIDS
- Strategic Dialogue Group
- Study sky academy
- SUDS – International association of solidarity and cooperation
- Svalorna Latinamerika
- Swiss Palestine Association
- Syrian American Medical Society
- Syrian Forum
- Syrian Network for Human Rights (SNHR).
- Syrians for Truth and Justice
- Tamkeen for Legal Aid and Human Rights
- Tanzania Community Health Information and Support
- Terre Des Hommes Foundation Lausanne
- Terre des Hommes International Federation
- Terre des Hommes Italia
- Terre des Hommes Netherlands
- The Asfari Foundation
- The Center for Mind Body Medicine
- The Desmond and Leah Tutu Legacy Foundation
- The Episcopal Church
- The Foundation for Middle East Peace
- The Fund for Global Human Rights
- The Khalifa Ihler Institute
- The Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation
- The Mosque Cares | Ministry of Imam W. Deen Mohammed
- The National Organization of Yemeni Reporters SADA
- The Palestine Solidarity Association of Sweden (PGS)
- The Palestinian Return Centre
- The Pickwell Foundation
- The Rights Forum
- The Syria Campaign
- The Syrian Center for Media and Freedom of Expression (SCM)
- The Tahrir Institute for Middle East Policy
- The United Church of Canada
- the3million
- Tirana Legal Aid Society, TLAS
- Together
- Together to Protect Human & Environment Association (Iraq)
- Train of Hope Dortmund e.V.
- Trainer’s League of Human rights
- Tree of Life Educational Fund
- Tripla Difesa O.N.L.U.S
- Tunisian Center for Social Entrepreneurship
- TWANA Organisation for sustainable development-iraq
- UK-Palestine Mental Health Network
- UN Association of San Diego
- UN Etxea-UNESCO Association Basque Country
- UN Youth Association of Romania – Cluj Branch
- United Against Inhumanity
- United Nations Association – UK
- University Network for Human Rights
- UOSSM International
- Upper New York Peace with Justice for Israel/Palestine
- US Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO)
- Vento di Terra
- Veterinarians Without Borders/Vétérinaires Sans Frontières North America
- VIS
- Viva Salud
- Voicing the Void
- VOLONTARI NEL MONDO RTM
- Vrede vzw
- War Child Canada
- War Child Holland
- War Child Sweden
- War Child UK
- War Childhood Museum
- War on Want
- We Effect
- Weaponized Drone Ban Treaty Campaign
- Welfare Association (UK)
- WESPAC Foundation, Inc.
- WeWorld – Member of ChildFund Alliance
- WILPF Spain
- Woman Rights Center in Samawah
- Womankind Worldwide
- Women and Gender Institute
- Women Empowerment Organization
- Women for Peace
- Women for Women International
- Women in Black Vienna
- Women Political Alliance – Kenya
- Women Without Borders- Cameroon
- Women’s Human Rights Centre (Iraq)
- Women’s Institute for Leadership Development
- Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom UK
- Women’s International Peace Centre
- Women’s Platform
- Women Human Rights Defenders Hub
- Womens Refugee Commission
- World Federalist Movement/ Institute for Global Policy
- World Organisation Against Torture
- World Student Christian Federation
- Worldwide Women’s Forum
- Yemen Relief and Reconstruction Foundation
- Yemen without Conflict Organization
- Yoga and Sport with Refugees
- Youth Against Irregular Migration
- Youth Vision Society
- Youths Volunteering for Sustainable Development (YOVSUD)
- Zhian health organization
- منظمة الدراسات و المعلومات الجندرية (Organization on Gender Studies and Information)
- منظمة المسلة لتنمية الموارد البشرية (Al-Masala Organization for Human Resources Development)
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