Protecting civilians, preventing displacement, and adhering to international conventions: A new path for the Palestinian cause

The National Society for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms welcomes the positive step announced by the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) in response to US President Donald Trump’s proposal to cease the war, exchange prisoners, and ensure the entry of urgent humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. The Society views it as an important milestone that could open a real horizon toward protecting civilians and halting the genocide being perpetrated against the Palestinian people.
The Society affirms that this step represents a clear failure of the attempts of the Zionist entity, which hoped that Hamas and the Palestinian factions would reject the initiative, exploiting this as a pretext to continue its aggression and impose policies of forced displacement.
In this context, the Society emphasizes that the strong and interim Egyptian role was a decisive factor in reaching this moment. Its firm position rejecting any project to displace Palestinians from the Gaza Strip formed an impregnable barrier that prevented the liquidation of the Palestinian cause and its emptying of its content. Without this historic position, the land would have been emptied of its people, and the Palestinian cause would have become meaningless and without owners.
The Society calls on the United Nations to establish a binding international mechanism to ensure a complete cessation of aggression and security. Unrestricted humanitarian access, protection of civilians, and accountability for perpetrators of war crimes and grave violations, in accordance with international humanitarian law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court.
The Society also emphasizes that Palestinian reconciliation at this time represents an urgent national necessity. Unifying Palestinian ranks and rebuilding national institutions based on partnership and legitimacy are the fundamental guarantees for confronting current and future challenges.
The Society cannot fail to extend its thanks and gratitude to the free peoples of all parts of the world who have come out, rallied, and lobbied in solidarity with the legitimate rights of the Palestinian people, emphasizing that these free voices have been and continue to be an important moral and political support that blocks all attempts to isolate or liquidate the Palestinian cause.
The National Society for the Defense of Rights and Freedoms considers this moment to represent a victory for the Palestinian and Arab popular will and affirms that continued legal, diplomatic, and popular pressure is the path to ensuring the preservation of Palestinians’ rights to freedom, dignity, return, and self-determination.