a great video explaining why an armed UN multinational  armed defensive force is the only way.

Dear Dr. Riyad Mansour, Minister, Permanent Observer State of Palestine,

Thank you for your bold and decisive document Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations Ref. SGC. 154/25 dated 25 July 2025.

The world unites with your powerful statement and call for immediate and decisive action. “It is time to protect Palestinian civilians, including children, and to preserve their right to life, by the dispatch of an international protection force to the OPT and acceleration of unfettered humanitarian assistance by the UN and international organizations.” 

However, we are not clear on why you have addressed this letter to H.E. Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, The President of the Security Council of the United Nations, with the following closing statement, "I should be grateful if you would arrange to have the present letter circulated to the Security Council members for their valuable consideration and distributed as an official document of the Security Council,” when you know that the United States will veto it as a permanent member of the Security Council, as they have done every time !

Instead, we urge you to call for something that can work and that can NOT be overridden by a Security Council veto, and which has been used by other member states of the UN, to achieve their goals: Resolution 377 (V) Uniting For Peace, adopted on 3rd November 1950, designed to empower the General Assembly to act when the Security Council is paralyzed by lack of unanimity among permanent members:

As you know, any country can call for an Emergency Special Session(ESS), but since Palestine is the State facing the genocide, if you as the official representative of the State of Palestine call for it, the mechanisms are obligated to immediately address your call, as it will from the Country under attack. In light of this, we respectfully request that you immediately call for an Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly under the Uniting for Peace Resolution, with a draft text that includes the following measures:

I. Authorizing a UN-Mandated Multinational Armed Protective 

Force to Gaza

·    The force shall be armed for self-defense and equipped with advanced monitoring technologies.

Its mandate will include:   

· Safeguarding Palestinian civilians from further violence and displacement

· Supporting the UN’s unrestricted entry and distribution of humanitarian aid, including efforts from civil society to break the siege by sea under the Global Sumud Flotilla Coalition.   

· Preserving and securing evidence of potential war crimes and human rights violations

· Facilitating the recovery and reconstruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure

II. Calls on All Member States to:

*Mandate an immediate, lasting ceasefire, require Israel to withdraw all armed forces from Gaza, and halt all attacks by air, land, and sea

·*Impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel

·*Cease all trade, investment, economic, diplomatic, and cultural relations with the Israeli government 

 *Strip Israel of its United Nations credentials 

· Reaffirm the right of the Palestinian people to use all necessary means to resist colonial domination and foreign occupation, including through armed struggle in accordance with international law

As you so clearly state, “We appeal to all States to seize the occasion to implement their words and commitments with real, collective action to fulfill their legal, political, humanitarian and moral obligations to stop the genocide in Gaza and to finally end Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.” 

We urge you to act without delay—every moment that passes deepens the humanitarian catastrophe and undermines the credibility of the UN in upholding its founding charter. 

Pease call for the Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly immediately. With your call for the ESS for the implementation of the Uniting for Peace Resolution, the concrete process enshrined in the United Nations would begin, not only to call on all General Assembly members to vote on this resolution, but also it begins the process of all member countries to assess what capabilities they can offer for the deployment of a UN mandated multinational armed protective force into Gaza immediately.

We will match your actions with global noise and support from the streets. Do the right thing and the world will support your call and stand with you.

Respectfully submitted,

Eric Rubin spokesperson for www.Peopleagainstgenocideeverywhere.org  and our affiliated global partners

Dear Dr. Riyad Mansour, Minister, Permanent Observer State of Palestine,

Thank you for your bold and decisive document Permanent Observer Mission of the State of Palestine to the United Nations Ref. SGC. 154/25 dated 25 July 2025.

The world unites with your powerful statement and call for immediate and decisive action. “It is time to protect Palestinian civilians, including children, and to preserve their right to life, by the dispatch of an international protection force to the OPT and acceleration of unfettered humanitarian assistance by the UN and international organizations.” 

However, we are not clear on why you have addressed this letter to H.E. Asim Iftikhar Ahmad, The President of the Security Council of the United Nations, with the following closing statement, "I should be grateful if you would arrange to have the present letter circulated to the Security Council members for their valuable consideration and distributed as an official document of the Security Council,” when you know that the United States will veto it as a permanent member of the Security Council, as they have done every time !

Instead, we urge you to call for something that can work and that can NOT be overridden by a Security Council veto, and which has been used by other member states of the UN, to achieve their goals: Resolution 377 (V) Uniting For Peace, adopted on 3rd November 1950, designed to empower the General Assembly to act when the Security Council is paralyzed by lack of unanimity among permanent members:

As you know, any country can call for an Emergency Special Session(ESS), but since Palestine is the State facing the genocide, if you as the official representative of the State of Palestine call for it, the mechanisms are obligated to immediately address your call, as it will from the Country under attack. In light of this, we respectfully request that you immediately call for an Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly under the Uniting for Peace Resolution, with a draft text that includes the following measures:

I. Authorizing a UN-Mandated Multinational Armed Protective 

Force to Gaza

·    The force shall be armed for self-defense and equipped with advanced monitoring technologies.

Its mandate will include:   

· Safeguarding Palestinian civilians from further violence and displacement

· Supporting the UN’s unrestricted entry and distribution of humanitarian aid, including efforts from civil society to break the siege by sea under the Global Sumud Flotilla Coalition.   

· Preserving and securing evidence of potential war crimes and human rights violations

· Facilitating the recovery and reconstruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure

II. Calls on All Member States to:

*Mandate an immediate, lasting ceasefire, require Israel to withdraw all armed forces from Gaza, and halt all attacks by air, land, and sea

·*Impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel

·*Cease all trade, investment, economic, diplomatic, and cultural relations with the Israeli government 

 *Strip Israel of its United Nations credentials 

· Reaffirm the right of the Palestinian people to use all necessary means to resist colonial domination and foreign occupation, including through armed struggle in accordance with international law

As you so clearly state, “We appeal to all States to seize the occasion to implement their words and commitments with real, collective action to fulfill their legal, political, humanitarian and moral obligations to stop the genocide in Gaza and to finally end Israel’s illegal occupation of Palestine.” 

We urge you to act without delay—every moment that passes deepens the humanitarian catastrophe and undermines the credibility of the UN in upholding its founding charter. 

Pease call for the Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly immediately. With your call for the ESS for the implementation of the Uniting for Peace Resolution, the concrete process enshrined in the United Nations would begin, not only to call on all General Assembly members to vote on this resolution, but also it begins the process of all member countries to assess what capabilities they can offer for the deployment of a UN mandated multinational armed protective force into Gaza immediately.

We will match your actions with global noise and support from the streets. Do the right thing and the world will support your call and stand with you.

Respectfully submitted,

Eric Rubin spokesperson for www.Peopleagainstgenocideeverywhere.org  and our affiliated global partners

       The Uniting for Peace Resolution must Include:

I. Authorizing a UN-Mandated Multinational Armed Protective Force to Gaza 

      The force shall be armed for self-defense and equipped with advanced monitoring technologies.

                               Its mandate will include:

o Safeguarding Palestinian civilians from further violence and displacement

o Supporting the UN’s unrestricted entry and distribution of humanitarian aid, including efforts from civil society to break the siege by sea under the Global Sumud Flotilla Coalition

o Preserving and securing evidence of potential war crimes and human rights violations

o Facilitating the recovery and reconstruction of Gaza’s civilian infrastructure

II. Calls on All Member States to:

• Mandate an immediate, lasting ceasefire, require Israel to withdraw all armed forces from Gaza, and halt all attacks by air, land, and sea

o Impose a comprehensive arms embargo on Israel

o Cease all trade, investment, economic, diplomatic, and cultural relations with the Israeli government

o Strip Israel of its United Nations credentials

o Reaffirm the right of the Palestinian people to use all necessary means to resist colonial domination and foreign occupation, including through armed struggle in accordance with international law