Netanyahu threatens to reoccupy Gaza
A message from Standing Together to supporters internationally.
Netanyahu’s horrific plan to occupy Gaza is a recipe for more deaths of Palestinians and Israeli hostages and more bloodshed across this land. The reality he wants – brutal Israeli control over the entire population in Gaza and the 50 hostages abandoned – would be absolutely catastrophic. Netanyahu’s plan is an attempt to keep himself out of jail and satisfy his messianic coalition at the same time. Our job, as the most powerful opposition to our extremist government, is to resist this plan that will harm every single one of us.
So we’re escalating our actions: This week, we disturbed the peace by carrying out several direct actions to protest the mass starvation in Gaza and the daily killing of Palestinians, with activists using megaphones as they drove through Haifa, Jerusalem, and Tel Aviv. We organized businesses in Jaffa to go on strike and blocked off their stores with tape featuring our message of disruption: “Stopping routine, ending the war.”
And today [6 August], we led a march to Gaza with hundreds of Jews and Palestinians who came out to say NO to the occupation plan, NO to starvation of Palestinians, and NO to leaving the hostages to die. This was such a powerful display of our collective power to refuse our government’s death and destruction.
Our movement is growing each week, because our society doesn’t want to be led toward the abyss. We refuse to be collateral damage in an engineered catastrophe. We know that this never-ending war of annihilation is horrific for Palestinians in Gaza and will only lead to more pain and grief for all of us.
Just a few days ago, we were credited on the New York Times’ The Daily podcast (at minute 15:30) as well as in New Yorker magazine with forcing mainstream media to report on the starvation and destruction in Gaza at the hands of our government. After our campaign, mainstream media finally started covering the atrocities, sparking a wider awareness and conversation in our society.
We’ve almost reached our crowdfunding goal – thank you so much for powering our grassroots fight against our government’s war of annihilation and for a just peace in Israel-Palestine. If you haven’t contributed or forwarded the campaign yet, donate and share with others to help get us over the line and strengthen our fight for a different future.
Posted 7 August 2025