#DiplomaticConvoyNow: Let Gaza Live, End the Starvation
Eurochild signed a petition calling for the immediate organisation and deployment of a Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy to Gaza through the Rafah Crossing.
The entire population of Gaza is experiencing acute food insecurity, with half a million people facing starvation. Over 3,000 aid trucks and 116,000 metric tonnes of food are waiting to enter Gaza – obstructed solely by Israel.
We urge states to join the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions -at the highest possible level- to accompany the aid trucks already waiting at the Rafah Crossing, and to enter Gaza alongside them. This is an act of legal obligation, moral courage, and human solidarity. To that end, we demand the following:
- We call on all states to publicly commit to joining the humanitarian convoy by dispatching official diplomatic missions to accompany the aid trucks into Gaza via the Rafah Crossing. A specific departure date will be announced soon. States must also reject the weaponisation of aid and Israel’s planned distribution mechanisms, which militarise relief efforts and bypass UN agencies and humanitarian actors.
- We urge all states to coordinate with the United Nations and the Government of Egypt to facilitate the convoy’s entry and ensure the immediate, unhindered, and safe passage of humanitarian aid, medical teams, and relief workers.
- While some governments complicit in the ongoing atrocities may choose not to participate, we call on individual diplomats, parliamentarians, and ministers from those countries to join the convoy in their personal capacities.
- We urge international media outlets to accompany the convoy – to bear witness, to document the famine, and to expose the blockade starving Gaza.
- We call on global civil society, including NGOs, trade unions, student groups, political parties, and solidarity networks, to mobilise immediately – to pressure governments to support the convoy and provide material, political, and public support.
- We call on the United Nations to immediately declare Gaza a famine zone based on the verified data, and to support this unified call by actively facilitating, endorsing, and joining the Diplomatic Humanitarian Convoy.
The petition is launched by Law4Palestine, a youth-led non-profit organisation created to address gaps in the application of international law to the Question of Palestine and to support the Palestinian people in realising their inalienable right to self-determination.
