Growing Global Solidarity To Demand Protection Of Palestinians Manifested On Day Of Action

By Friends of the Hague Group, Popular Resistance.

November 19, 2025
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Above photo: Activists demonstrate in support of Colombia and Palestine in Florida.

On November 17, social movements in 13 countries held actions in solidarity with Colombia and its President, Gustavo Petro, who has faced retaliation by the United States for his statements and actions in support of Palestine. Petro has announced that he will introduce a Uniting for Peace resolution at the United Nations General Assembly to create a multinational protection force for Palestinians and impose sanctions and a weapons blockade in order to end the genocide and liberate Palestine from the illegal Israeli occupation. Since he announced his intention to introduce the resolution on September 2, the U.S. government has revoked Petro’s visa, targeted him with sanctions, punitively increased tariffs on Colombia, and is even threatening military action against the country.

The actions were led by Friends of the Hague Group, a coalition of major global social movements that launched in July of this year to support multilateral initiatives to bring an end to the genocide in Palestine and ensure that they are guided by the demands of organized Palestinian civil society, rather than imposing the will of other states whose interests may violate Palestinians’ rights to self-determination. The Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), the largest collective representation of Palestinian civil society, has been calling for a Uniting for Peace Resolution to be introduced at the United Nations General Assembly.

In contrast to the creation of an occupation force, such as the one recently mandated by the United Nations Security Council at the request of the United States, a multinational protection force for Palestinians that is created through the UN General Assembly (UNGA) would be at the request of and answer to Palestinians, respecting their sovereignty.

On September 5, 45 human rights experts with the United Nations urged the UNGA to pass a Uniting for Peace Resolution that would create a peace operation, guarantee the provision of humanitarian aid to Palestinians by placing the distribution under the control of the United Nations, end the operation of entities in Gaza that use aid to entrap and harm Palestinians, establish aid supply routes by land and sea, and demand a permanent ceasefire—in effect endorsing the resolution that Petro had promised to introduce just days earlier, following the September 1 launch of a global call to action by PNGO in support of the same proposal. Petro was immediately targeted by the United States.

Achieving a Uniting for Peace Resolution requires strong international support for President Petro and the Colombian people, who will also be harmed by US interventions, as well as mobilizing worldwide to demand that UN member nations support the resolution. The Global Day of Action on November 17 was organized to launch the campaign to show that substantial support for Colombia and for the resolution exists. We must build on that.

Organizations can sign to endorse the campaign and receive updates HERE.

Individuals can sign letters to demand diplomats support Uniting for Peace HERE.