Palestinian and Global Civil Society call for global actions September 18
By Friends of the Hague Group, Popular Resistance.
September 2, 2025
Photo: On 29 November 2012, the General Assembly granted Palestine non-member observer state status in United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19. Social media.
Demand UNGA Send Protective Force To Palestine And Unseat Israel.
On September 2, 2025, the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), which represents 150 Palestinian-led member organizations in Gaza and the West Bank, issued a Call for a Global Day of Action and Strike September 18th, 2025, endorsed by major grassroots organizations representing hundreds of millions of people around the globe (see PNGO’s Call for a full list of initial endorsers). This September 18 marks the deadline given by the UNGA in Resolution A/ES-10/L.31 for Israel to end its unlawful presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). The same resolution, which was issued September 18, 2024, also ordered Israel to immediately comply with the provisional measures in the genocide case at the International Court of Justice (ICJ).
Ubai Aboudi, director of the Bisan Center for Research and Development and member of PNGO’s steering committee, states: “The people of Gaza cannot wait any longer. Every minute this genocide continues more lives are forever lost. We call on everyone to amplify the voices of Gaza and stand up to Genocide.” PNGO’s director, Amjad Shawa, will join Craig Mokhiber, Dr. Jeffrey Sachs, Medea Benjamin and others, to speak about PNGO’s Global Call for Action as part of Lifeline for Palestine’s “Uniting For Peace Resolution UN RES.377(V)” webinar this Friday, September 5, 10am ET/5pm Gaza time.
PNGO and the initial endorsing organizations of its Global Call to Action—many of which are founding members of Friends of The Hague Group—call for the following actions leading up to and on September 18, 2025:
1. Communicate through all available means with representatives of the State of Palestine (embassies and other official instances) that the people of the world support the State of Palestine’s recent statement to the UNSC that “[i]t is time to protect Palestinian civilians, including children, and to preserve their right to life, including by the dispatch of an international protection force to the Occupied Palestinian Territory and the acceleration of unfettered humanitarian assistance by the United Nations and international organizations” and requesting that the State of Palestine urgently call for an Emergency Special Session (ESS) of the UNGA to introduce a Uniting for Peace resolution that specifically calls for the demands articulated in a recent article by former senior UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber, including the deployment to Palestine of a multinational protective force.
2. Communicate using all available means to the governments and UN missions of all UNGA member states that the people of the world back PNGO’s call for them to act within their power to stop the genocide immediately, including by supporting a Uniting for Peace mechanism that specifically calls for the above-noted demands, including the deployment to Palestine of a multinational protective force, and also by refusing to recognize Israel’s credentials at the UNGA.
3. On September 18: Make it a day for global strike, assemble at strategic UN and/or governmental sites in each UNGA member country around the world to denounce Israel’s refusal to comply with the UNGA’s September 18, 2024 resolution and the ICJ advisory opinion and provisional measures, and, in view of Israel’s failure to meet its September 18, 2025 deadline and its continuing atrocities in Palestine, to demand that countries urgently support a Uniting for Peace resolution that specifically calls for the above-noted demands, including the deployment to Palestine of a multinational protective force, and that they also refuse to recognize Israel’s UNGA credentials.
International human rights lawyer and former senior UN human rights official Craig Mokhiber is on the steering committee of the Gaza Tribunal, and is the author of the article cited by PNGO in its Call for Action laying out the steps that must be taken at the UNGA this month to stop the genocide. He states:
“The world has watched in horror as the Israeli regime has perpetrated a genocide in plain view. Day after day, month after month, governments of all regions and key international institutions have stood idly by as the regime has systematically exterminated Palestinian lives, destroyed Palestinian towns and villages, and trampled on the very foundations of international law. It is long past time for the world to act decisively to end this horror, to protect Palestinian civilians, break the siege, deliver humanitarian aid, preserve evidence of Israeli crimes, facilitate reconstruction, and begin the process of isolating and ultimately dismantling the genocidal regime. Uniting for Peace provides an opportunity for action in which no state will be able to hide behind the complicit US veto: all must now vote under the bright light of public scrutiny for or against protection of a people facing genocide. Palestine does not need monitoring, stabilization, the promise of a Bantustan somewhere down the road, or a return to the cruel status quo before October of 2023. It needs protection, liberation, and freedom.”
La Via Campesina (LVC) is a global peasant-led movement comprising 180 local and national organizations in 81 countries and represents about 200 million small-scale food producers. Morgan Ody, LVC General Coordinator, states:
“As a global organization focused on food sovereignty and peasant rights, solidarity with Palestine has long been a top priority for La Via Campesina. In the context of the current induced famine and Israel’s intentional attacks on Palestinian food sovereignty (as we saw with the bulldozing of UAWC’s Palestinian seed bank), LVC has several active campaigns to break the blockade and protect Palestinian farmers and fisherpeople, including our participation in the Flotilla to break the siege on Gaza and organizing international accompaniment for the olive harvest in the West Bank. At the behest of UAWC, which represents LVC in Palestine and is itself also a member of PNGO, we are proud to join this urgent call for action as part of our unwavering commitment to Palestinian liberation.”
Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and of No Cold War—a global platform against war and genocide that has also endorsed the call—says:
“Palestine must be free. That is non-negotiable. And for that, more than calls are necessary. Pressure must be put on the Israelis and on those who are complicit in the Israeli genocide of the Palestinians. This is one form of the pressure.”
Organizations may sign on to endorse PNGO’s call to action and receive information about the campaign HERE.