Press Releases

Bethlehem, 9 January 2026

What has been unfolding across Palestine and the wider region is a coordinated regional project of domination, enforced through international crimes, coercion, and impunity. This project is enabled, protected, and actively co-perpetrated by the US, whose military, diplomatic, and political backing remains indispensable to every stage of its execution. The ongoing genocide in Gaza represents the most extreme and visible phase of this project, but it is not an isolated one. It is part of a broader strategy through which the Israeli regime seeks to eliminate Palestinian presence, fragment Palestinian society, consolidate its “sovereignty,” and reshape the regional order into a new status quo that enforces and normalizes US and  Israeli hegemony. This deliberate, region-wide strategy violates not only states’ sovereignty but also the Palestinian, Syrian, Lebanese, Yemeni, Somali, and Venezuelan peoples' right to self-determination. The silence, inaction, and complicity of states, as well as the UN’s failure to take any decisive measures, further enable these crimes, effectively replacing the UN system with US and Israeli domination.

Across Mandatory Palestine, this strategy is being implemented through killings, mass arrests, forced displacement, home demolitions, colonization, suppression, and the confinement of Palestinian communities into enclaves. Alongside this physical assault, the Israeli regime has accelerated its attack on international presence and accountability mechanisms, including targeted efforts to dismantle UNRWA. These illegal actions aim at erasing Palestinian refugeehood, dissolving collective protection, and stripping the Palestinian people of any internationally recognized status. Targeting UNRWA, including the banning of its operations and the recently passed Israeli amendment blocking the provision of fundamental services to UNRWA’s facilities, must be understood in this context, as part of a wider eliminationist strategy, carried out with full confidence that the US will block consequences.

The so-called international “board of peace” set for Gaza will be a repeated mechanism - similar to the British Mandate (1922-1948) - that enforces stability for imperial interests and grants the Israeli regime unlimited room to expand, dominate, and erase. Palestine sits at the center of this structure not by accident, but because the elimination of Palestinians is essential to sustaining a regional order built on aggression, militarization, normalization of international crimes, and the permanent suspension of accountability.

Israeli expansionist and colonial aims do not stop at Palestine. They are embedded in the Israeli regime’s “Decisive Plan,” a vision of permanent domination enforced through international crimes, regional subordination, and the deliberate destruction of any political horizon for self-determination in pursuit of a “Greater Israel.” Far from rhetorical fantasy, the Decisive Plan is already being implemented on the ground, through escalating aggression, suppression under the guise of “security,” and the systematic erosion of sovereignty and self-determination, not only in Palestine but across the region.

In Lebanon, the Israeli regime has openly dismantled the fiction of a ceasefire through ongoing bombardment, killings, evacuation threats, drones, and strikes on residential and commercial districts. Under the pretext of “disarming Hezbollah,” these attacks fracture Lebanese sovereignty, criminalize resistance, and impose an externally dictated system. The Israeli regime's crimes in Lebanon persist for the same reason they persist elsewhere: because the US has provided the political green light, the ceasefire architecture, and the impunity framework.

In Syria, US and Israeli domination is being repackaged as “de-escalation.” The Israeli regime has expanded its attacks beyond the Golan Heights while participating in US-brokered talks with Syria’s new government under the language of coordination, intelligence sharing, and “commercial opportunities.” While the Syrian side invokes the revival of the UN-mandated 1974 Disengagement Agreement, the talks remain structured around “security coordination” rather than enforcement of international law, the authority of the UN, and the supposed binding nature of its mandates. Furthermore, it violates Syrian self-determination and establishes normalization under duress. The US-brokered communication mechanism does not restrain the Israeli regime; it institutionalizes its reach and reframes confiscation and bombardment as negotiable arrangements. Palestinian refugees in Syria remain trapped between Israeli regime aggression, the erosion of international protection and UNRWA, and political bargaining that treats their existence as expendable. What is being constructed is a managed hierarchy in which Syrian sovereignty and self-determination, like Lebanese sovereignty and self-determination, are subordinated to Israeli regime security doctrines and US regional priorities.

The role of the US as a so-called mediator must be named for what it is: direct co-perpetration. The same US that brokers ceasefires the Israeli regime immediately violates is the US that arms, funds, and diplomatically shields these crimes, while enforcing subjugation elsewhere through economic coercion and resource extraction. From Palestine to Lebanon, to Syria, and extending to Venezuela—where US pressure, sanctions, and extraction demands over oil have escalated into acts of extraterritorial abduction and bombing—the same imperial logic is laid bare. This is not just about territorial and resource dominance; it is about the systematic erosion of people’s rights, including their right to self-determination, which is consistently being subordinated to geopolitical and economic interests.

While the genocide has been carried out in Gaza, its implications extend far beyond, targeting the international system as a whole. The widespread silence, inaction, and complicity of states have contributed directly to the current situation, in which violations of international law are rendered acceptable, provided the perpetrator is strong enough. The normalization of violating international law is a deliberate political strategy. The Israeli regime, like the US, has acted with near-total impunity, in flagrant violation of all the norms and principles of international law. In this context, state power, rather than the law, justice, rights, or moral principle, has become the primary source of legitimacy. Unless states begin to act decisively and collectively to confront this colonialist strategy, the entire international system will soon be replaced by US and Israeli colonial domination.

Clarity is required, not caution. The Israeli regime’s project is regional, intentional, and ongoing. The US is central to its execution, as an enabler and co-perpetrator. It does not resolve crises; it engineers dependency and enforces compliance. States and the UN must confront this pattern. Immediate two-way military embargoes, along with political, financial, and diplomatic sanctions, are necessary to end complicity, stop the ongoing crimes, and ensure the protection and rights that the Palestinian people, and other peoples, are entitled to.