Palestine Calls for Protection Forces Through Uniting for Peace Resolution
(Washington D.C., August 12, 2025) – In response to the formal request of Minister Riyad Mansour, Permanent Observer of the State of Palestine to the United Nations, during the August 10 Emergency UN Security Council Meeting on the Situation in the Middle East, including the Palestine Question, for "an immediate international protection force to save the Palestinian people from certain death," DAWN issues the following statement:
"Now that Palestine has formally requested protection forces, the UN General Assembly should move urgently to mandate such a force under a Uniting for Peace resolution," said Sarah Leah Whitson, DAWN's executive director. "Israel has made clear for the past two years that no amount of pleading, pressure or negotiation will end its atrocities and deliberate starvation in Gaza; only international peacekeeping forces can achieve that."
"Israel's murder of some of the last remaining journalists in Gaza yesterday, including Al-Jazeera's Anas Al-Shareef, is an important signal that it's moving to fully eradicate Palestinians there under cover of darkness," said Raed Jarrar, DAWN's advocacy director. "It's more important than ever now to have international eyes and ears on the ground to stop their final advance on Gaza."
