Statement of the International People’s Tribunal for Palestine on October 7, 2025
Two years ago on October 7 2023, the Palestinian people and their resistance forces bravely asserted their right to resist the Zionist occupation. Referring to their operation ever since as Al Aqsa Flood, their bravery and boldness to struggle reached unprecedented heights and put into question the impenetrability and invincibility of the Zionist occupation entity, a fascist military regime completely armed and protected by US imperialism. While hypocritically painted as a “terrorist operation” by the latter two governments, arguably the number one terrorist alliance in the world today, Al Aqsa Flood is instead seen by the vast majority of the world’s struggling peoples as a shining example of what it means to assert one’s collective right to resist and live on one’s own land by any means necessary.
It is in this spirit of the right to resist occupation, enshrined within international law and aspired for by all freedom and peace loving peoples, that the International Peoples’ Front, the International League of Peoples’ Struggle, and the People’s Coalition for Food Sovereignty have launched “Right to Resist: The Palestinian People vs. The Zionist Occupation and the US Government,” an International People’s Tribunal set to be held in Barcelona this coming November 22 to 23. The Tribunal will put on trial the US-Backed Zionist Occupation’s war of forced starvation and ecocide in Palestine.
It will present evidence from key witnesses and experts to expose the extent of the Zionist occupation’s genocidal use of ecocide and forced starvation against the people of Palestine, the complicit role of the US and other backers of the occupation’s crimes such as the UK, France, Germany and others, and so-called private entities like the US and Zionist-led Gaza Humanitarian Foundation. Using public testimony of survivors of the crimes first hand and expert analysis, this International People’s Tribunal will put the war crimes of forced starvation and ecocide in full view of the world’s governments and demand that they act to stop the genocidal crimes being perpetrated on the Palestinian people.
The Tribunal will bring together people and organizations from around the world to not only shine the light on the genocidal crime of ecocide, but will show that it is only through the Palestinian people’s own resistance that the genocidal assault will end. It will arm the Palestine solidarity movement around the world with the tools to expose their governments’ and other institutions’ complicity while asserting full heartedly the right of the people to fight back.
The Genocidal War of Ecocide
For the last two years, the Zionist regime has retaliated with a barbarity unprecedented in its 77 years of occupation, an act that has been near-universally labeled as genocide and a war of extermination against all of Palestine by people and international institutions alike. It has incessantly and indiscriminately bombed and started a population of 2.2 million people, leading to the direct deaths of what is estimated to be well over 60,000 human beings, more than half of them women and children.
What is rarely factored into public perspectives of the genocidal war against Palestine is the deliberate weapon of ecocide, defined as the severe, systematic, widespread and long-term deliberate destruction of the environment and natural resources. Under this ecocide, people, including children, are dying from forced starvation and dehydration. And yet, the ecocidal war is overlooked, even though these deaths are estimated to overshadow direct deaths almost tenfold, with some estimates as high as 680,000.
Available reports show that, by September 2024, at least 58% of all greenhouses had been damaged, and hundreds of wells were destroyed, which has crippled irrigation. In northern Gaza and Gaza City, nearly all greenhouses were destroyed by the end of 2023. By July 28, 2025, only 1.5% of Gaza’s agricultural land was both accessible and undamaged. The Gazan Ministry of Health has reported that as of September 19, 2025, malnutrition-related deaths had reached 440 since October 2023, including 147 children. In a single 24-hour period in late August, 10 deaths from starvation and malnutrition were reported, including two children.
In Gaza, food has been utilized as a weapon much earlier than October 7th 2023. In the year 2007, Israel imposed a blockade on food, setting a calorie count designed to keep Palestinians hungry but ‘not die of hunger,’ and as one “Israeli” official stated, to keep Gaza’s economy on the brink of collapse.”In all of “Israel’s” 15 brutal wars on Gaza since 1947, people’s food systems were systematically devastated. But this time the aim is not for Palestinians to go hungry, but to die from hunger.
“Israel’s” direct assault on the ability of Gaza’s people to produce their own food is a method to remove their ability to live on the land of Palestine. They are manufacturing an ecological disaster to force Palestinians to leave or die so that illegal Zionist resettlement can take place.
The International People’s Tribunal Channels the Historic Fight of the People
Despite the horrific onslaught being unleashed by the Zionist occupation, backed by the US to the amount of $318 billion in weapons since 1948 with $17.9 billion alone since October 7 2023, the people of Palestine have never backed down.
The Al Aqsa Flood is the product of generational resistance against the ongoing genocide and Zionist extermination campaign since 1947 to seize all the land of Palestine. The Palestinian resistance is acting in the best interests of the Palestinian people, as they have been targeting and exposing the Zionist occupation for its crimes with the goal to end its hold over their people. Viewing the resistance forces as the legitimate representatives of their interests, the Palestinian people have never given up the struggle for liberation from the brutal Zionist occupation.
The people of the world, therefore, must stand with the people of Palestine and loudly defend their right to resist to end the genocidal war of ecocide and achieve national liberation.
The International People’s Tribunal for Palestine will be a means by which the people of the world can actively express their solidarity and force an end to the complicity in imperialist-backed genocide. The Tribunal shall memorialize the struggle of the Palestinian people for the historical record and serve as a moral inspiration for further political action. This Tribunal has its lineage in the people’s tribunals from the Russell Tribunal on Vietnam to the recent International Tribunal on the Philippines. It shall contribute to the accumulation and snowballing of resistance and protests worldwide.
Set to convene this November 22 to 23 in Barcelona, the Tribunal will also be preceded by a build-up campaign of political education, solidarity mobilizations, and other activities. In Barcelona, key witnesses including survivors of the genocide in Palestine will give testimony to not only the horrors of genocide and ecocide, but to the steadfast will of the Palestinian people to continue the fight. While the international institutions of the world stand by, the people will deliver their verdict and demand justice through continued solidarity and movement building.
Through the Tribunal, the Palestinian people, with international solidarity, will exercise their mandate to try the perpetrators of these war crimes, including presenting evidence and delivering testimony to the international community. This is integral to amplifying the Palestinian people’s collective right to self-determination and the struggle for national liberation to the world.
Our Tribunal will reclaim the power of judgment from those who have weaponized international law to protect perpetrators. It says to the people of Palestine: We see you. We will not be silent. And we will not wait for justice from courts that never deliver it to the oppressed.
This is our call to all of you: join us in building this tribunal, in amplifying the truth, in mobilizing global solidarity. Because the crimes against Palestine cannot be left to history books, they must be confronted now, with the full moral force of the people of the world. Let us make this Tribunal a space where truth is spoken clearly, power is named courageously, and the path toward justice for Palestine becomes undeniable.
