“What MORE can we do?”

The Palestine Solidarity Alliance (PSA) notes with vigilance the announcement of the limited opening of corridors for food and humanitarian aid to enter Gaza. While needed and welcomed in the face of the Israeli created starvation and use of famine as a weapon of war, this is not enough.

Gaza is in an emergency of starvation and needs daily truckloads of food, medicine and humanitarian aid to flow in immediately and unconditionally. We remain outraged at the escalating and dire situation unfolding live in Gaza and will not stop until Palestine is free.

Gaza does not need symbolic gestures of PR airdrops that further humiliate and torment its people. Nor do the Palestinian people need temporary pauses in bombing. We need to see an immediate end to the blockade, a permanent ceasefire, an end to the genocide and the withdrawal of the IDF from Gaza and all Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT).

Furthermore, to restore order, establish the conditions for life and the rebuilding of Gaza we support the call for an independent peacekeeping force to be deployed to ensure safety and security for the people of Gaza.

Importantly, we recognise that this sudden shift to present opportunities for relief did not come from compassion by those responsible for the destruction of Gaza. It was forced into being by pressure from the ground. It was the voices of millions, the unrelenting protests from Soweto to Cairo and across the world, the global student uprisings, the daily actions of human rights defenders, health workers, educators, and ordinary people refusing to remain silent, that have opened these corridors. From the Freedom Flotilla Coalition to the Sumud Convoy, from UN agencies to countless grassroots efforts, this is proof that collective action works. The occupying power and its imperialist allies have been shaken, not by diplomacy, but by the roar of people across the world demanding justice.

We note the significance of South Africa’s case at the International Court of Justice, which has warned of an impending famine, the impact of the violence of the Israeli settlers on the indigenous people across the OPT and ruled that the perpetrators of the genocide and the illegal occupation be held accountable under international law. This legal action, combined with global activism, has shifted the conversation toward the possibility of a just and lasting solution for the Palestinian people.

The fear of losing control in the Middle East to public anger has pushed both the Zionist entity and its American allies to allow some relief in, not because they wanted to, but because they fear the power of the Global majority revolting against them.
This is the lesson: change comes from the ground up.

Every concession, every truck that enters Gaza, every corridor that opens, is won by the relentless courage of ordinary people and the resistance of the Palestinians. It is proof that the liberation of Palestine begins not in the halls of power but in the streets, in Palestine, Cairo, Amman, Damascus, Johannesburg, and every city where people stand in defiance of oppression. Hence the important question: WHAT MORE CAN WE DO?

Let Gaza Eat is a demand born from the ground up, a cry from the people to the people. Grassroots movements around the world are uniting to pressure governments, especially Egypt, to open the Rafah border and end the inhumane blockade that keeps food and aid from reaching starving families in Gaza. When mothers are forced to watch their children waste away, silence is complicity. We cannot wait for leaders to act at their convenience, we must push them relentlessly until Gaza can breathe, eat and live.

As the Palestine Solidarity Alliance, we insist that this opening of aid cannot be temporary. It must be the beginning of a lasting solution, one that guarantees the rebuilding of Gaza, the lifting of the blockade, and the full realisation of freedom, justice, and dignity for the Palestinian people from the River to the Sea.

The demand is clear, Let Gaza Eat!

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