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We demand the immediate deployment of a U.N. multinational armed protection force with the following mandate:

• Protect civilians from further violence and displacement.
• Ensure full, safe and sustained humanitarian access to food, water, shelter, energy, and medical care.
• Assist in the initial stages of reconstruction, enabling families to return to their homes and rebuild with dignity.
• Preserve and secure evidence of potential war crimes, crimes against humanity, genocide, and human rights violations to enable future accountability and justice mechanisms.

The Uniting for Peace precedent was established to break Security Council deadlocks and to uphold the U.N.’s founding promise: to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, as well as to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights and in the dignity and worth of the human person, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for international law can be maintained. That promise is being tested by Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.

The world cannot afford selective protection or enforcement of international law based on geopolitical interests. Just as UNEF was created to halt aggression and uphold peace, so too must we now act to fulfill our moral and legal obligations to the people of Gaza.

We call on the General Assembly to convene an emergency special session and to approve the deployment of this U.N. protection force without delay.