1/24-25 Istanbul, Turkey: Launching of the Global Coalition Against Occupation of Palestine

Lee Siu Hin

January 25, 2025

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Global Coalition Against Occupation of Palestine is a Palestinian diaspora professional civic group from Middle East and Europe, aim to create a new think tank, to focus on message campaign and legal actions against Israeli Zionists occupation and genocide in Palestine.

They invite several dozen activists, legal experts and professional from around the world to form this network, and draft a joint action plan.

I represent China's Panda Aid, the Chinese activist-run medical humanitarian solidarity organization to attend the conference.

The conference aims to shed light on the crimes committed against the Palestinian people, particularly the acts of genocide in the Gaza Strip. This event will bring together a distinguished group of legal experts, human rights activists, and advocates to discuss and explore practical steps and procedures vital for prosecuting war criminals and ensuring their accountability before international courts. The conference also seeks to raise global awareness about the humanitarian suffering in Gaza, unify legal and human rights efforts to support the Palestinian people's rights and work towards achieving international justice.

Conference Objectives

● A global conference originating from Gaza to advance justice, advocate for survivors, and put an end to the genocide.

● Discuss legal pathways for holding war criminals accountable.

● Promote awareness of the importance of international justice in addressing human rights violations.

● Facilitate the exchange of expertise among legal professionals on strategies for accountability.

● Build an international support network to defend the rights of victims in Gaza.

The conference announced a creation of the Global Coalition Against Occupation of Palestine, and passed a first 120 days joint activities plan:

1. Use old school approach as well as uncontrolled platforms beside the common social media.

2.Support activating chapter 7 at the UN General Assembly.

3.While supporting Boycott at large, the banking system that blocks financial aid, should also be boycotted and alternative mediums to be established & used.

4. Support Human & Medical aids coming from the various countries (China) into the Gaza Strip.

5. Focus on facilitating multilingual platforms for the website, social media, podcasts and public communications.

6. Collaborative media publication among all participates social media networks.

7. Utilize the major historical events/occasions to raise awareness or carry on the special unified events.

8. Create a creative Coalition manifesto made of the vision, mission, goals,and target audience to promote the Coalition to the public.

9. Focus on the youth and students' must.

10. Utilize pro Palestine experts in developing the events.

11. Establish digital archive for the Palestinian academic activists to ensure their voices are not lost.

12. Conduct extensive workshops on defining the narrative, direction of work, level of confrontation and penetration with the policy makers.

13. Support in gathering evidences for special investigations concerning the genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine.

14. Activism is important by going to the streets, but we can't stay there and thus we must build on the efforts a sustainable course of action.

15. Utilize art and culture in our events and blend with the international arena.

16.Highlighting the importance of fighting the false narrative with the right/true narrative from a human perspective.

I am also honored to invite me to join the coalition's first interm organizing committee.

Although Hamas-Israel Gaza cease fire had begun in January 19th, now Trump 2.0 in power, no one will believe "Israel" will stop their war and slaughter very long. 

International Palestinian movement is growing from different sectors around the Wolrd! This is just one of dozen Palestinian solidarity conferences I had attended around the Wolrd for the past several months.

International peace and justice activists will not stop their fight against U$ backed Israeli occupation and genocide, The People United Will Never be Defeated!