Following the release of activists Abu Keshk and Thiago

The Palestinian NGOs Network (PNGO) and the Palestinian Human Rights Organizations Council call for escalating popular solidarity campaigns in support of our people’s just cause.

Jerusalem – Gaza, 10 May 2026

PNGO and PHROC salute the courageous international solidarity movement and its symbols - from university students to labour unions, from free activists to defenders of justice confronting the colonial machine, and the heroic activists of the Global Sumud Flotilla. This unprecedented global movement, which transcended borders and languages, has constituted a real pressure front and proved that the human conscience is still alive, and that the will of peoples is capable of holding even the harshest systems of oppression accountable when official diplomacy fails.

While affirming that this solidarity movement has achieved a tangible partial victory in breaking the will of the occupation in the struggle against the siege, genocide, and apartheid system - by forcing it to release activists Saif Abu Keshk and Thiago Ávila - we also recall milestones in symbolically breaking the blockade, exposing the occupier’s narrative in international forums, disrupting arms deals, and compelling the International Court of Justice and the International Criminal Court to act, albeit insufficiently. This victory, although not yet complete, has disrupted the settler-colonial project and demonstrated to the world that the wall of impunity has begun to crack.

In this context, the issue of Palestinian prisoners and detainees - who represent the forefront of sacrifice and the conscience of the national movement - cannot be forgotten. Thousands of them, including children, women, and the sick, have for decades been subjected to the most horrific forms of systematic terror, physical and psychological torture, deliberate starvation, rape, and deprivation of the most basic human and legal rights guaranteed under the Geneva Conventions and international humanitarian law. The occupation has also moved toward the mass killing of prisoners through the adoption of a law permitting the execution of prisoners, revealing the fascist nature of the occupier.

The occupation’s prisons are slow extermination camps, and justice cannot prevail without their complete liberation, revealing the fate of the forcibly disappeared, and prosecuting the perpetrators.

Despite these achievements, the Gaza Strip and all occupied Palestinian territory remain under the burden of the so-called “Trump Middle East Plan” in its renewed form, which is nothing more than an attempt to institutionalize genocide under a fragile political cover. What is taking place is a continuation and intensification of the ethnic cleansing plan against our people: deliberate starvation, forced displacement, systematic destruction of homes, hospitals, and schools, and the killing of entire families, with the aim of emptying Palestine of its people and transforming it into a land without a soul under the labels of “voluntary migration” or a false “Riviera.”  This brutal colonial project is being carried out today with a disgraceful American and European green light, and with the silent partnership of an international system that has thus far failed to compel the occupation to cease fire and allow the entry of humanitarian aid.

Accordingly, PNGO and the PHROC call on the international solidarity movement, in all its forms, to reorganize its ranks and escalate its liberation struggle in order to:

• Revitalize boycott, divestment, and sanctions campaigns against the state of occupation, genocide, and apartheid.
• Prosecute political and military leaders of the occupation for their crimes by supporting International Criminal Court investigations and arrest warrants against them, and pursuing them before national courts under the principle of universal jurisdiction.
• Impose an immediate and comprehensive military embargo and prevent the occupation from receiving any weapons or lethal components, while dismantling military alliances with it.
• Provide international protection for the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and wherever they reside.

The partial victory achieved signals the beginning of an even fiercer battle, in which the solidarity movement realizes that it is confronting not only a racist occupation, but a settler-colonial system that threatens international peace and security. Isolating and holding it accountable is the only path toward peace, freedom, justice, and our people’s right to self-determination and return.