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Urgent | Safa follow-up | The National Gathering of Palestinian Tribes, Clans, and Families
▪In light of the escalating humanitarian catastrophe in the Gaza Strip, the continued suffering of displaced people under rain and sand, and in the wake of the tragedy that claimed the lives of five civilians, including children, in the Al-Baraka area in Deir al-Balah, the National Gathering of Palestinian Tribes, Clans, and Families affirms the following positions and demands: ▪We call on the tribes, clans, and families of the Arab and Islamic world to declare a state of popular mobilization and broad solidarity with the Gaza Strip over three days, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (13, 14 and 15 November), and to organize peaceful popular activities and stand-ins to pressure for the rescue of our people and the end of their humanitarian suffering. ▪We call on the ministries of awqaf, the scholars of the nation, and mosque preachers to consider next Friday a global day of solidarity with Gaza, and to dedicate the Friday sermon to speaking about the humanitarian catastrophe our people are living through, and the religious, moral and human duty of the nation to support and save them. ▪We call on the churches of the East and the churches in the Arab and Islamic world to ring their bells next Sunday in solidarity with the Gaza Strip, and to issue a unified human cry rejecting the continuation of death and abandonment, and calling on the world to act to save the sons of our people. ▪The so-called Peace Council was born dead and has proven its complete inability to stop the suffering of our people or provide even the minimum requirements of protection and life for them, and we demand an end to its role and an immediate intervention by the United Nations and the Security Council to assume their responsibilities in protecting Palestinians and saving the Gaza Strip from the humanitarian catastrophe. ▪We tell the National Committee for Managing Gaza, now known as the “Siti Star” committee, that our people did not wait for you to sit in hotels and confine yourselves to meetings and promises, while its children die under the sand and its families drown in tents. You must return to your people and carry out your duties and tasks assigned to you, and bear your national and humanitarian responsibilities, otherwise leave and make room for those who can save their people. ▪We call on the Palestinian forces and factions not to continue in a state of waiting and hesitation, and to immediately begin discussing serious national alternatives that lead to the formation of a national salvation government capable of bearing its responsibilities, and unifying efforts to end the suffering of Palestinians and protect our people from slow death. ▪We demand that the United Nations and the international community urgently declare the Gaza Strip a devastated area, with the resulting exceptional humanitarian obligations and measures, and the entry of tents, mobile homes, rescue and shelter equipment, and the rescue of hundreds of thousands of displaced people who face death under rain and sand and in buildings threatened with collapse. ▪Gaza, which has been drowning in its blood for three years, is once again drowning today under water and sand, and the continuation of silence and international incapacity constitutes a new betrayal of our people, who will not accept that its slow death turns into an ordinary scene before the world.
Follow-up Committee of the National and Islamic Forces: We call for Gaza Strip to be considered a devastated area because of the systematic destruction carried out by the occupation of all components of life
Follow-up Committee of the National and Islamic Forces: ▪We call for Gaza Strip to be considered a devastated area because of the systematic destruction carried out by the occupation of all components of life, the tightening of the noose around its people and confining them inside shelters in a small and narrow geographic area and tents unfit for human life, with an air, sea and land blockade controlled by the brutal occupation force that seeks to satisfy its revengeful impulses against the children, women and elderly of Gaza, while its extremist leaders delight in scenes of mass death and daily destruction in Gaza, devastated by the blockade, killing and destruction. ▪The criminal occupation state bears full responsibility for obstructing and impeding the implementation of the ceasefire agreement and preventing the entry of the administrative committee, international stabilization forces, and ceasefire monitoring and follow-up committees. It is responsible for all that resulted from the genocide and blockade of tragedy and pain for Palestinians in Gaza. ▪We call on the living masses everywhere in the world to stand in solidarity with Gaza and support it, and to take to the streets in marches rejecting the continuation of the war and blockade and the resulting threat to international security and peace, and demanding the dissolution of the Council of Peace and the end of this lie, and for the United Nations and the Security Council to assume legal responsibility for ending the occupation, stopping the war, and putting an end to the occupation’s violations of international, humanitarian law and the United Nations Charter. ▪In this context, we call for the weekend days (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) to be days for raising the voice of the peoples of the world with Gaza and its children, affirming its right to a dignified life, and carrying its just demands to stop the war, end the blockade, enable the Palestinian people to determine their destiny, and establish their independent state. ▪We salute the struggles of the peoples of the world and the living forces defending justice and freedom and rejecting wars, chaos, terrorism and hegemony, and we call on the parties, forces and currents that raise these principles to mobilize the masses and lead them toward change and the protection of rights. ▪We call on the leaders and governments of our Arab and Islamic nation to adopt pressure positions in order to stop the wars in the region and end the tragedy of Gaza, and we call on the peoples of our nation to move for Gaza, support our national demands and our just rights, and stop the genocide and destruction.
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: Five citizens, including three children and two women, killed and others injured after a sand mass collapsed over displaced persons’ tents west of Deir al-Balah
Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine: ▪The killing of five citizens, including three children and two women, and the injury of others as a result of a sand mass collapsing over displaced persons’ tents west of Deir al-Balah, constitutes a new human tragedy that reveals the scale of the risks threatening citizens’ lives, amid the presence of thousands of cracked and at-risk buildings, and the absence of safe shelters and rescue and protection equipment. ▪A report by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), issued on 8 November 2026, documented the dimensions of the catastrophe, as around 1.4 million Palestinians, or 65% of the population of the sector, live in tents and temporary shelters, while at least 4,000 severely dangerous buildings are threatened with collapse, more than 20,000 families in 222 locations were affected by the storm, and around 600 families were forced to be displaced again. ▪The biggest humanitarian scandal lies in the presence of more than 150,000 tents, 300,000 plastic covers and 500,000 blankets outside the sector and ready to be brought in, while the occupation government insists on preventing their arrival to the displaced, and continues to obstruct the entry of heavy machinery, water pumps, suction tankers, Civil Defense equipment and rescue equipment. ▪By what right are tents and caravans being held at the gates of Gaza crossings, while children and women are drowning in their tents, rainwater mixes with sewage water, and shelters collapse over the heads of those inside? And what justification is there for continuing to prevent shelter and rescue supplies, while our people face a harsh winter after the war destroyed their homes and means of life?. ▪What is happening in the Gaza Strip is a direct result of the destruction of infrastructure and the continuation of the siege and the prevention of life and relief supplies, and we warn that the continuation of this reality turns winter into an additional weapon that kills the displaced, amid damage to hospitals and health and educational facilities, shortages of medicines and food supplies, and the collapse of water and sewage networks. ▪The failure of the Peace Council to provide protection and a humanitarian response for the residents of the sector, and its bias toward the Israeli side, require returning the Gaza file to the United Nations Security Council, so that it may, under direct UN sponsorship, ensure the proper and balanced implementation of Resolution 2803, بعيداً عن الصفقات والمصالح العقارية والسياسية التي تتناقض مع حقوق الشعب الفلسطيني واحتياجاته الإنسانية والوطنية. ▪We demand the removal of all obstacles placed by the occupation government before the National Committee for the Administration of the Gaza Strip, enabling it to enter immediately to carry out its civil responsibilities with the civil society components in the sector and financially empowering it to build health, educational, medical, food, environmental and sewage infrastructure, and to open the crossings immediately and without restrictions to bring in the tents and caravans piled up at the gates of the sector, as well as fuel, medicines and rescue equipment, to secure safe shelter centers, and to evacuate citizens from buildings threatened with collapse. ▪We call on the Palestinian Authority to assume its national responsibilities, and to take the initiative to form a national consensus government that will assume its responsibilities in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem, in a way that enhances the unity of Palestinian institutions and territories and unifies the national path toward guaranteeing our people’s rights to freedom, self-determination, independence and the right of return. ▪We affirm that our Palestinian people, who are facing bombardment, siege, hunger and displacement, will not be left to face death by drowning and cold under displacement tents, and that the continued withholding of shelter and rescue supplies, and preventing them from reaching those entitled to them, places the international community before its political, humanitarian and legal responsibilities, and requires urgent action to stop the catastrophe before the tents of the displaced become new graves for the children and women of Gaza.