Twenty-five countries have published a joint declaration Calling in the immediate end of the war in Gaza and accusing Israel of not authorizing sufficient aid to, requiring it must do so to comply with international humanitarian law.
“We, the signatories listed below, are gathered with a simple and urgent message: the war in Gaza must end now,” the declaration started. “The suffering of civilians in Gaza has reached new depths. The model for the benefit of aid from the Israeli government is dangerous, feeds instability and deprives the gas of human dignity.”
“The refusal of the Israeli Government of Humanitarian Aid essential to the civilian population is unacceptable. Israel must comply with its obligations under international humanitarian law,” the press release said.
Throughout the conflict, Israel argued that they sent enough help to Gaza, but international aid organizations said on several occasions that there was not enough aid and the The United Nations reported malnutrition conditions inside Gaza.
The declaration is signed by the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Portal Slovenian, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and the United Kingdom
Palestinian mother Alaa al-Najjar cries her three-month-old baby, Yehia, who died due to malnutrition in the middle of a hunger crisis, according to doctors, at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, in the South Gaza Strip on July 20, 2025.
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The appeal to action was published Monday after a Incident Sunday In which at least 81 Palestinians were killed and 150 others were injured while they were trying to access food, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, led by Hamas, which said that the majority of people killed were gathered near the border of Zikim between Gaza and Israel.
The Israeli defense forces said on Sunday that his troops had fired near the crowd “in order to suppress an immediate threat imposed on them”, although it is not specific. An examination is underway, but “a preliminary examination indicates that the reported number of victims does not align with existing information”, according to the IDF.
Oren Marmorstein, spokesperson for the Israeli Foreign Affairs, said in a Declaration on X On Monday, the country “rejects” the joint declaration of 25 nations “because it is disconnected from reality and sends the bad message to Hamas”.
“All declarations and all complaints should be directed against the sole part responsible for the absence of an agreement for the release of hostages and a cease-fire: Hamas, which triggered this war and prolongs it,” the press release from Marmorstein said.
The press release also said that although there is a “concrete proposal for a cease-fire contract”, Hamas “stubbornly refuses to accept it”.
“The declaration does not focus pressure on Hamas and does not recognize Hamas’ role and responsibility for the situation.” Marmorstein said. “Hamas is the only party responsible for pursuing war and suffering on both sides.”
“At these sensitive moments in the current negotiations, it is preferable to avoid declarations of this type,” concluded the Marmorstein declaration.
The Palestinians gather when they carry aid supplies that entered Gaza by Israel, in the midst of a hunger crisis, at Beit Lahia in the Northern Gaza Strip on July 20, 2025.
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The American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee described the joint declaration of “disgusting” in a Publish. “25 Nations exert pressure on @israel instead of savages of Hamas! Gaza suffers for one reason: Hamas rejects each proposal. Bleam Israel is irrational,” said the position.
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“It is horrible that more than 800 Palestinians were killed while asking for help,” said the joint declaration. He also sentenced Hamas for refusing to release the remaining Israeli hostages.
“The hostages cruelly held by Hamas since October 7, 2023 continue to suffer terribly. We condemn their continuous detention and call their immediate and unconditional release,” the statement said. “A negotiated ceasefire offers the best hope of bringing them home and putting an end to the agony of their families.”
The mourning people react during the funeral of the Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes overnight, according to doctors, at the Al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on July 21, 2025.
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The Secretary General of the United Nations António Guterres, said in a statement On Monday, it is “dismayed by the accelerated rupture of humanitarian conditions in Gaza”.
The “last lines of life that kept life accumulate,” said guterres in part, adding that he “condemns the violence in progress, including the shooting, murder and injury of people who try to obtain food for their families”.
“Civilians must be protected and respected, and they should never be targeted. The Gaza population remains seriously undersea with the basic necessities of life,” the Guterres statement said.
The 25 signatory countries have also called on the Israeli government to “immediately raise restrictions on aid flow and allow UN and humanitarian NGOs urgently to do their rescue work in complete safety and effectively” and for “all parties to protect civilians and comply with the obligations of international humanitarian law”.
“We urge the parties and the international community to be united in a common effort to put an end to this terrible conflict, through an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire,” continued the statement. “More and more blood effusions are useless. We reaffirm our total support for the efforts of the United States, Qatar and Egypt to achieve it.”
“We are ready to take new measures to support an immediate cease-fire and a political path to security and peace for the Israelis, the Palestinians and the whole region,” said the statement.
The smoke and the flames rise from a residential building struck by an Israeli strike in Gaza City on July 21, 2025.
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On Sunday, Pope Leo XIV also renewed calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.
“I once again call for an immediate end to the barbarism of this war and a peaceful resolution to the conflict,” said the Pope during the Angelus Sunday prayer of his summer retirement at Castel Gandolfo, according to the Associated Press.