Uniting For Peace

Working with Craig Mokhiber, former Director of the UN Human Rights Office in New York, People Against Genocide Everywhere are initiating an urgent call to action for the UN General Assembly institute the Uniting for Peace Resolution 377A authorizing the deployment of a UN mandated multinational armed protective force to be sent to escort aid into Gaza immediately.

It only takes one country to call for Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly and trigger a Uniting for Peace Resolution vote. This vote requires a two thirds majority to pass and bypasses the Security Council veto. It has ...

Working with Craig Mokhiber, former Director of the UN Human Rights Office in New York, People Against Genocide Everywhere are initiating an urgent call to action for the UN General Assembly institute the Uniting for Peace Resolution 377A authorizing the deployment of a UN mandated multinational armed protective force to be sent to escort aid into Gaza immediately.

It only takes one country to call for Emergency Special Session of the United Nations General Assembly and trigger a Uniting for Peace Resolution vote. This vote requires a two thirds majority to pass and bypasses the Security Council veto. It has been used successfully in the past.

This peacekeeping force can be instituted rapidly.

We encourage all who have been in the streets protesting to immediately change tactics and unite around one specific concrete demand, “Deployment of a UN mandated multinational armed protective force into Gaza Immediately”.

Take action today - stop the starvation of Gaza

Craig Mokhiber, former Director of the UN High Commisioner for Human Rights Office, explains it best:

"The [United Nations] General Assembly since 1950 has been specifically empowered, under the Uniting for Peace resolution (377A(V)), to get around the Security Council veto in matters of peace and security where the council is unable or unwilling to act because of the veto of one of its permanent members.

We are trying to put pressure on the General Assembly to do what it can do, based upon the precedence of the 1956 use of Uniting for Peace to establish the UN Emergency Force that was deployed to the Sinai, over the objection of the Israelis, over the objection of the French, over the objections of the British.

They were able to do that because the General Assembly acted under the Uniting for Peace resolution to mandate an armed emergency force.

They could do the same thing now, and it’s even easier now.

The bombs and bullets are only one of the means that are being used by Israel to perpetrate the genocide. Starvation, denial of food, water and shelter, imposed hunger, imposed disease, the destruction of hospitals, the lack of medical care, all of those things will claim more victims than even the intentional bombing and shooting of Palestinian civilians that’s been going on for the past 20 plus months.

So the only way to stop the genocide is to get a force in there, that is mandated to, firstly, protect civilians from any kind of threats, to secure and support the distribution of humanitarian aid to all parts of the strip, including food and water and medicine and shelter and all of the things that are needed for the survival and recovery of the victims of genocide in Palestine, and thirdly- to preserve the evidence of Israel’s war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, for accountability, as the General Assembly has said that there must be a process of accountability for Israel’s crimes.

That evidence is being destroyed as we speak – a multinational force could help to protect it. All of these things could be done under the authority of the General Assembly, where we know there is more than two thirds of the member states who are opposing Israel’s actions, and who are supporting Palestinians."

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As the Israeli government’s siege starves the people of Gaza, aid workers are now joining the same food lines, risking being shot just to feed their families. With supplies now totally depleted, humanitarian organisations are witnessing their own colleagues and partners waste away before their eyes.

Massacres at food distribution sites in Gaza are occurring near-daily. As of July 13, the UN confirmed 875 Palestinians were killed while seeking food, 201 on aid routes and the rest at distribution points. Thousands more have been injured. Meanwhile, Israeli forces have forcibly displaced nearly two million exhausted Palestinians with the most recent mass displacement order issued on July 20, confining Palestinians to less than 12 per cent of Gaza. WFP warns that current conditions make operations untenable. The starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is a war crime.

Just outside Gaza, in warehouses - and even within Gaza itself - tons of food, clean water, medical supplies, shelter items and fuel sit untouched with humanitarian organisations blocked from accessing or delivering them. The Government of Israel’s restrictions, delays, and fragmentation under its total siege have created chaos, starvation, and death

I call on you to demand that the Australian government authorise our Permanent Representative to the United Nations to:
- Immediately call for an Emergency Special Session (ESS) of the General Assembly.
- Initiate the Uniting for Peace Resolution 377A(V). 
- Mandate the immediate deployment of a UN multinational armed protective force into Gaza to safeguard Palestinian civilians and support the UN's unrestricted entry and distribution of humanitarian aid.

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