TELL THE HAGUE GROUP: LISTEN TO PALESTINIANS. SUPPORT UNITING FOR PEACE.

TELL THE HAGUE GROUP: LISTEN TO PALESTINIANS. SUPPORT UNITING FOR PEACE. 

On March 6 and 7, 2026, representatives of dozens of states will convene in Amsterdam for the third meeting of The Hague Group, “a global bloc of states committed to ‘coordinated legal and diplomatic measures’ in defense of international law and solidarity with the people of Palestine.” In its two prior meetings, some of the attending countries made commitments to several such measures. 

However, thus far only The Hague Group co-chair Colombia has committed to moving forward with the primary demand of organized Palestinian society: PROTECTION.

The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), which is the largest collective voice of Palestinian Civil Society—representing over 130 membership organizations in Gaza and the West Bank—has repeatedly called for State members of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) to use the “Uniting for Peace” mechanism to mandate multinational protection for Palestine along with sanctions and other key measures necessary to stop the genocide. PNGO has endorsed Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s Uniting for Peace proposal. Nearly all Palestinian factions and forces have also endorsed the call for multinational protection through the United Nations.

A Uniting for Peace resolution may be introduced by any UNGA member state when the UN Security Council (UNSC) “fails to exercise its primary responsibility for the maintenance of international peace and security”—as it has clearly done in the case of Palestine. A Uniting for Peace Resolution requires a two-thirds majority vote to pass at the UNGA, and is not subject to veto by the UNSC.

Rather than protect Palestinians, UNSC Resolution 2803 (the “Trump Plan”) reinforces colonial occupation and genocide. Since Trump’s so-called “ceasefire” and the subsequent passage of Res. 2803, Israel has murdered well over 600 Palestinians in Gaza. In the West Bank, pogroms, killings, abductions and torture by settlers supported by the Israeli State are an everyday reality. 

Additionally, Trump’s Board of Peace now threatens to render the United Nations itself obsolete, along with the possibility for multilateral diplomacy to protect any people or nation that asserts its sovereignty and right to self-determination against the wishes of Zionist empire. Indeed, Res. 2803 has further emboldened Zionist empire, as is evident in the subsequent escalation of U.S. threats and violent attacks against, e.g., Nigeria, Greenland, Venezuela, Cuba and Iran.

BUT IT IS NOT TOO LATE. 

Now is not the time for incremental or performative action. Friends of The Hague Group (FOTHG)—a coalition of major global social movements that formed to support multilateral efforts to stop the genocide and ensure that such efforts are guided by the demands of organized Palestinian society—has issued a call urging States to support a Uniting for Peace resolution to mandate protection for Palestinians. In so doing, they would protect not just Palestine, but also the United Nations and the world.

Please urge your organization to endorse FOTHG’s sign-on letter, and join major initial global social movement signatories including World March of Women, ALBA Movements, International Association of Democratic Lawyers, Pax Christi, International Peace Bureau, Unione Sindacale di Base, CODEPINK and others to send a clear message to States attending the March 6-7 Hague Group meetings:

LISTEN TO PALESTINIANS.

SUPPORT UNITING FOR PEACE. 

THE WORLD WILL HAVE YOUR BACK.

In Solidarity,

The International Coalition to Stop Genocide in Palestine (a founding member of FOTHG)