The PAL Commission has issued urgent diplomatic communiqués today, calling for an immediate deployment of a diplomat-escorted aid convoy to Gaza.

As of May 2025, Gaza is experiencing a man-made famine of genocidal proportions. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC) now classifies 470,000 people in Gaza are projected to die imminently without immediate humanitarian relief— and the entire 2.1million population are now classified as being under IPC Phase 5 (catastrophic hunger). UN officials and humanitarian monitors warn that Gaza’s infrastructure is collapsing beyond recoverable thresholds.

Gaza is now in full-scale survival failure. Child death from wasting and dehydration is already confirmed; aid obstruction and siege are preventing any stabilizing intervention – the legal and moral implications are grave, as this is occurring despite international orders and aid availability. This is no longer a crisis — it is an extermination process executed through a siege which must be stopped. These conditions meet the threshold of genocide as defined in Article II(c) of the Genocide Convention, and legally constitute starvation as a method of warfare as per Rome Statute, Article 8(2)(b)(xxv); Additional Protocol I, Article 54; UNSC Resolution 2417, and are violations of jus cogens and erga omnes obligations which require all States to prevent, not recognize, and actively end such conduct. The ICJ heard evidence in April 2025 confirming Israeli obstruction of aid in defiance of the ICJ’s Provisional Measures Order.

The siege and starvation of Gaza represent one of the most systemically executed atrocity crimes of our time. The extermination of civilians through deprivation, under legal orders to allow relief, meets every threshold for urgent international intervention. The duty to act is binding, immediate, and non-derogable.

PAL Commission urges governments to take the following immediate actions — and offers its coordination and support as may be needed:

1. Deployment of Diplomatic Aid Delegations to Gaza Immediately

1. Dispatch a diplomat-escorted humanitarian aid delegation to accompany and facilitate the entry of 3,000+ aid trucks and 116,000 metric tons of food blocked at Rafah;
2. Reach out to and coordinate the convoy with the Egyptian government;
3. Contact Israeli authorities to demand the immediate and unimpeded delivery of aid to Gaza;
4. Begin building multi-lateral state-escorted humanitarian aid corridors by land and sea, consistent with Articles 23, 55, 56 of the Fourth Geneva Convention; UN Security Council Resolution 2417 (2018); The Responsibility to Protect (R2P); The ICJ’s Provisional Measures (26 Jan 2024) and Advisory Opinion (19 July 2024).

2. Affirm the Non-Negotiable Legal Status of Humanitarian Aid

States must unambiguously reject all attempts to instrumentalize or politicize humanitarian aid. Under international humanitarian law, aid must be unimpeded, non-conditional, delivered without political discrimination or adverse distinction. Any conditionality—such as excluding certain groups or requiring security guarantees—violates the principle of distinction, constitutes collective punishment, and breaches jus cogens norms prohibiting starvation and forced displacement.

PAL Commission urges governments to act decisively—and remain at the service of governments for any further engagement, clarification, or coordination required to uphold their obligations under international law and Palestinian life in Gaza from Israeli extermination.