Gaza: Immediate ceasefire needed

Long-term solutions must also be advanced to respect human rights

By CIVICUS Staff

An immediate ceasefire is needed to stop the slaughter of civilians in Gaza and enable full humanitarian access to supply the essentials a besieged population needs and is currently being denied. The current crisis severely escalated with the Hamas attacks of 7 October – but it didn’t start there. Long-term solutions are needed to end decades-long practices of systemic exclusion and the denial of rights, informed by the voices of civil society. Meanwhile people in other countries should be free to protest in solidarity, to demand accountability for atrocities and call for an end to the killing.

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