Stop the genocide in Gaza – No arms deliveries to Israel
Decision of 31 May 2025
The war against the Gaza Strip has been raging for over a year and a half. Those responsible, including Israeli cabinet ministers and even Prime Minister Netanyahu, have left no doubt from the outset that this is a war against the civilian population. Or that their deaths were at least being condoned. Almost all of Gaza’s infrastructure has now been destroyed and over 50,000 people, 70 per cent of them women and children, have lost their lives, although the actual death toll is likely to be significantly higher. This war has long since ceased to have anything to do with self-defence. According to estimates by the United Nations, reconstruction could take 350 years if the blockade is maintained. In the north of Gaza, there are now no clinics in operation and the majority of healthcare facilities in the entire coastal enclave have had to close.
Israel has been using hunger as a weapon since October 2023. However, the situation has worsened considerably in recent months, during which a complete blockade has been imposed and no more food, drinking water, medicine or fuel has been allowed through. All the food has been used up, and the spokesperson for the UN emergency aid organisation OCHA calls Gaza the ‘place with the greatest hunger in the world’. 100 per cent of the population there is at risk of famine. Both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are now speaking of a genocide. A genocide for which the German government, as Israel’s second largest arms supplier, also bears responsibility. War crimes cannot be a ‘reason of state’!
The alliance Sahra Wagenknecht – Reason and Justice (BSW) demands:
- An immediate end to the genocide against the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip – the starvation, bombing and expulsion must be stopped immediately
- An immediate stop to German arms exports to Israel
- An end to the blockade of the Gaza Strip – humanitarian aid must be allowed in immediately and without restrictions and distributed in accordance with the humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, independence and neutrality
- International aid for the reconstruction of the Gaza Strip
- An end to the criminalisation of and repression against actions that campaign for an end to the Gaza war and the genocide against the Palestinians within the framework of freedom of expression and the right to freedom of assembly
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