(Bagnolet, September 5, 2025) La Via Campesina urgently calls on its member organisations and allies to strengthen their actions in solidarity with the Palestinian people. In Palestine, the Israeli occupation regime is waging a genocidal war through starvation in Gaza while deepening its project of ethnic cleansing in the West Bank.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) in its recent report of August 22 finally confirmed a famine (IPC Phase 5) in Gaza Governorate and projected that this catastrophe will expand to Deir al- Balah and Khan Younis Governorates by the end of September. The report highlighted that over half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic conditions (IPC Phase 5), characterised by starvation, destitution and death. Another 1.07 million people—54 percent of the population—are facing Emergency (IPC Phase 4), and 396,000 people (20 percent) are in Crisis (IPC Phase 3). To avert total catastrophe, the IPC called for an urgent and immediate ceasefire and end to the conflict to enable an unimpeded, large-scale humanitarian response to save lives.

This famine is being deliberately engineered and weaponized. It is not a humanitarian failure, but a war crime carried out with the full complicity of the United States and European powers. The so-called Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF) and the military “aid” airdrops are not aid – they are mechanisms of domination. They are tools of control designed to fragment and humiliate Palestinians, entrench dependency, and strip them of sovereignty over food, land, and life. This deliberate starvation and denial of humanitarian access constitute grave breaches of international humanitarian law and crimes against humanity.