INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE
On 29 November 2025, Adalah marks the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, amid an unprecedented intensification in Israeli violence against Palestinians, spanning from the besieged Gaza Strip to the occupied West Bank and extending to Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI). This violence can only be interpreted as a systemic and deliberate campaign by Israel aimed at the erasure of Palestinian identity, history, and physical existence.
This campaign is executed through military aggression, settler violence, mass displacement, and the entrenchment of a legal system designed to maintain control and oppression over Palestinians. The destruction is manifested physically, in the mass killings, the destruction of property and uprooting of villages and refugee camps and the elimination of sources of livelihood, and through the enactment of dozens of anti-Palestinian laws that further entrench apartheid and Jewish ethnic supremacy.
The Genocide in Gaza
The ongoing genocide in Gaza is the most acute manifestation of this campaign of erasure. Beyond the staggering loss of life, which likely exceeds 100,000 people, the Israeli government and its military have pursued policies designed to render Gaza uninhabitable and to expel its population. In November 2025, Adalah and several other human rights organizations, led by Physicians for Human Rights – Israel (PHRI), filed a petition to the SCT demanding that the state resume evacuating patients from Gaza to hospitals in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. The petition followed the widespread destruction of Gaza’s hospitals and health infrastructure during Israel’s military campaign.
In September 2025, Adalah, together with other human rights groups, issued an urgent letter to Israeli authorities demanding the cancellation of mass evacuation orders from Gaza City. The NGOs stressed that these orders, which affected approximately one million residents, constituted forcible transfer and ethnic cleansing, amounting to war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Rome Statute. The policy of expulsion is also manifested through Israel’s "voluntary emigration" policy. In June 2025, Adalah and partner organizations warned Israeli officials that this policy constitutes the forced transfer of the civilian population—a war crime and a crime against humanity – and that it is merely a veneer for coercive displacement under conditions of mass starvation and systematic military destruction.
Despite the October 2025 ceasefire agreement, the genocide has not ceased: Israel controls more than half of Gaza, daily bombardments have resulted in the killing of hundreds of Palestinians, the large-scale destruction of homes and civilian infrastructure continues, and humanitarian conditions remain catastrophic.
West Bank: Settler Violence, Military Destruction, and Land Theft
In the occupied West Bank, the physical destruction of Palestinian life and property has dramatically accelerated. Violent settler attacks have also reached unprecedented levels, often resulting in casualties and extensive property damage. A recent UN report documents this marked rise in attacks since early 2025, detailing widespread vandalism, the uprooting of thousands of olive trees, and the forced displacement of families. Uprooting and burning trees is an attack on livelihood, collective memory, and heritage — a deliberate erasure of connection to the land. The UN has also warned that these acts are not isolated incidents but part of a broader, state-enabled campaign of land destruction and dispossession.
The Israeli army has also escalated its destruction of homes and infrastructure in Palestinian refugee camps, displacing around 40,000 residents. Human Rights Watch has recently concluded that these actions amount to war crimes and crimes against humanity. Adalah challenged this systemic destruction in Tulkarem, Nur Shams, and Jenin refugee camps in three petitions to the Supreme Court (SCT). The Court rejected these cases, which sought to halt the collective punishment and destruction of civilian life, effectively granting judicial approval to the military operations.
This destruction is intrinsically linked to illegal settlement expansion. Adalah’s new report on the Israeli Settlement Enterprise, highlights the legal infrastructure of the ongoing confiscation of Palestinian land in violation of international law.
Displacement of Bedouins in the Naqab, Surge in Anti-Palestinian Laws
The systematic erasure also targets Palestinian citizens of Israel (PCI) through forced displacement and new racist and discriminatory laws. Over a dozen Bedouin Palestinian villages in the Naqab (Negev) face imminent displacement, with ongoing legal proceedings that could lead to the erasure of 13 entire villages. These actions form part of a broader state policy to “Judaize” the land, with plans to establish numerous new Jewish settlements across the Naqab. These developments reflect a clear agenda to forcibly remove Palestinian Bedouin communities, erase their presence, and replace them with exclusively Jewish settlements. The SCT’s recent decision to evacuate the 500 Bedouin residents of Ras Jrabah in the Naqab within 90 days highlights the judiciary’s stamp of approval to the state’s policy of home demolitions, land seizure, and the dispossession of PCI families.
Furthermore, post-October 7, over the past two years, the Israeli Knesset has passed dozens of new laws, the cumulative effect of which is to further entrench and deepen Israel’s regime of apartheid and repression over all Palestinians under its control – both in Israel and in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT). A new report by Adalah reviews key anti-Palestinian racist and discriminatory legislation passed during this period.
What is now unfolding across the Palestinian homeland is not a series of isolated incidents of violence, but a systematic process of erasure, displacement, and destruction aimed at eliminating Palestinians’ identity, presence, and future on their land. On this International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, Adalah implores the international community to act quickly and definitively to end these grave and illegal acts that seek to deny the Palestinian people their existence, their rights, and their historical and ongoing connection to their homeland.
