Israel’s Escalating Assault on Palestinians Demands Global Action - 9.17.2025

Israel’s latest attacks on Gaza City have displaced more than 50,000 Palestinians, leaving families without shelter as bombs continue to level high-rise buildings. In just one day, 42 Palestinians were killed, including 14 members of a single family—three generations erased in a single airstrike. Families like Abu Tarek Habboub’s, forced to march south along the coastline with nothing but the clothes on their backs, now face the unbearable choice between death and despair.
At the same time, Israel has launched mass raids in the occupied West Bank, arresting 1,500 Palestinians in Tulkarem, including children. Residents describe soldiers terrorizing women and children and destroying property under the guise of “security.”

Prime Minister Netanyahu has openly declared there “will not be a Palestinian state,” while approving 3,400 new settlement homes designed to sever Palestinian communities. This brazen defiance of international law is further compounded by Israel’s deadly strike on Qatar, condemned by the U.N. Security Council.

Even U.S. senators, after witnessing conditions on the ground, now acknowledge Israel’s campaign amounts to ethnic cleansing and collective punishment, with America complicit through its unconditional support.

How many more families must be slaughtered, displaced, or imprisoned before the international community holds Israel accountable? Silence and inaction make us all complicit in this humanitarian catastrophe.