All Out to Stand with Palestine!
Call for Global Mobilization for Gaza
Sunday, August 3
Montreal, July 12, 2025
The Palestinian Resistance Movement Hamas has called for a worldwide popular mobilization on Sunday, August 3, designating it a Global Day of Solidarity with Gaza, Jerusalem, al-Aqsa Mosque, and Palestinian prisoners. Hamas stressed in its statement the need for continued popular and international movements against the "systematic Zionist aggression, genocide, and starvation against over 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip."
Hamas emphasized the importance of intensifying demonstrations and sit-ins outside Israeli and U.S. embassies, and those of states supporting the occupation worldwide. The goal, it said, is to halt Israeli aggression against civilians, especially children, women, and the sick.
The call was issued as the crimes of the U.S. and Israeli Zionists increase, causing the ever worsening starvation of the people.
On July 29, Gaza's Health Ministry reported that in a 24-hour period, hospitals in the Gaza Strip received the bodies of at least 113 civilians, as well as 637 people suffering from different injuries. Since the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) resumed their genocidal war on Gaza on March 18, a total of 8,867 people have been killed and 33,829 others have been injured.
Over the past 22 months, since the U.S./Zionist criminals launched their genocidal war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, at least 60,332 Palestinians have been martyred as of July 29, including 1,179 aid seekers killed at or near U.S.-organized distribution points, and 147,643 others wounded, including 7,957 aid seekers. United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk recently stated that "we can never forget that more than 300 of our own colleagues have been killed by Israel's military action" during that same period.
In the West Bank, at least 190 Palestinians have been martyred and more than 1,500 injured since the start of 2025 due to ongoing Israeli aggression, according to newly released data. Among the martyrs are 36 children who were shot or otherwise killed by the IOF during the same period. The escalation, which began on January 21, has seen thousands of violations committed by the IOF across the West Bank, resulting in the martyrdom of 162 Palestinians since that date alone.
Israeli human rights organization B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights-Israel (PHRI) have both issued reports showing that Israeli actions against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip amount to genocide. They warn that the genocide will not be limited to the Strip, but may extend to other areas.
"An examination of Israel's policy in the Gaza Strip and its horrific outcomes, together with statements by senior Israeli politicians and military commanders about the goals of the attack, leads us to the unequivocal conclusion that Israel is taking coordinated action to intentionally destroy Palestinian society in the Gaza Strip," B'Tselem said in a July 28 report.
Truce Talks Terminated
On
July 24, U.S. Special Envoy for Peace Missions, Steve Witkoff,
announced that the Trump administration is recalling its Gaza
ceasefire
negotiation team from Doha, Qatar and terminating any further
truce
talks. It had become clear that the U.S. and Israel would not be
able
to achieve at the
negotiating table what they have not been able to achieve
through siege
and genocidal aggression, that is the surrender of the
Resistance and
the Palestinian people.
Witkoff blamed Hamas for the collapse of the truce talks. Trump put the blame on Iran. Netanyahu blamed everyone and echoed Witkoff's remarks that the U.S. and Israel would seek "alternative options."
On July 27, Khalil al-Hayya, deputy head of Hamas' political bureau in Gaza said there is no longer any justification to continue negotiations with Israel. "There is no point in continuing negotiations under the siege, genocide, and starvation of our children and women in the Gaza Strip," al Hayya said. He added that "the immediate and dignified entry of food and medicine to our people is a serious expression of the feasibility of continuing the negotiations."
Al-Hayya added that Hamas had shown "all possible flexibility that did not conflict with the principles of our people" throughout the indirect talks. He said that "clear progress" had been made during the last round of negotiations and that Hamas had accepted key elements proposed by mediators.
"In the last round of negotiations, we agreed with what the mediators offered us regarding the withdrawal, prisoners, and aid," al-Hayya said. Over the course of the last 22 months Hamas has responded to the mediators at every stage and "used all its tools and relationships to stop the aggression against the people of Gaza." Al-Hayya added, "The occupation's withdrawal from the negotiations round is a transparent step aimed at wasting time and causing more genocide."
Israel Declares Annexation Plan
Israeli
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly planning to
propose a
"phased annexation" of parts of the Gaza Strip to the Security
and
Political Cabinet. Under the plan, Hamas would be given a brief
window
to accept a ceasefire deal. Should the group refuse, Israel
would
initiate a
step-by-step "annexation of Gaza territory," starting with areas
along
the Strip's eastern border, the so-called "internal buffer zone"
maintained by IOF.
The process would then expand northward, particularly targeting zones near Sderot and Askalan, with the ultimate aim of "annexing Gaza" in its entirety. The proposal is expected to follow Netanyahu's decision to provide very minimal humanitarian aid into Gaza, that in no way ends the starvation and was meant more to humiliate Palestinians and divert from U.S./Israeli crimes.
Other Israeli war criminal Cabinet Ministers are openly calling for annexation of the West Bank and Gaza. On July 28, Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich called on Netanyahu to move forward with "annexing" the occupied West Bank, declaring there is "no more appropriate time" to apply full "Israeli sovereignty" over the territory. "We have full support from the U.S. administration -- I say this from knowledge. The sky will not fall," Smotrich stressed. He also called for the "resettlement of Gaza."
Earlier, Israeli Heritage Minister Amichai Eliyahu openly stated that Israel is intensifying efforts to erase Gaza, with the aim of forcibly displacing the Palestinian population and replacing them with Israeli settlers. "The government is racing ahead for Gaza to be wiped out," Eliyahu told Kol Barama, a Haredi (strictly orthodox Jewish) radio station, as reported by Israeli media.
(Palestine Chronicle, Palestine information Centre, Middle East Eye, MEMO, Al Mayadeen)
This article was published in
Volume 55
Number 21 - August 3, 2025
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