Top aid groups urge world leaders to take action and stop the genocide in Gaza

FOTO: A billboard in Times Square displays the message, ‘Israel is committing genocide’, in New York City, the US, on September 16, 2025 [Jeenah Moon/Reuters]

The heads of more than twenty aid agencies working in Gaza have urged world leaders to “urgently intervene” and put a stop to Israel’s campaign of genocide in the Palestinian territory.

With over 65,000 Palestinians killed in Gaza so far, including more than 20,000 children, the aid agencies warned on Wednesday that nearly one million more people are now “on the precipice of an even deadlier period in Gaza’s story if action is not taken.”

“The inhumanity of the situation in Gaza is unconscionable,” the groups said in a joint statement.

They warned that Israel’s latest efforts to forcibly displace Gaza City’s population through a ground offensive are aimed at making the coastal strip’s largest city “deliberately… uninhabitable.”

The aid leaders urged world leaders, who will convene next week at the United Nations, “to act in accordance with the mandate the UN was charged with 80 years ago.”

“If Member States continue to treat these legal obligations as optional, they are not only complicit but are setting a dangerous precedent for the future. History will undoubtedly judge this moment,” they warned.

The letter, signed by leaders of top aid groups including MSF International, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam International, Save the Children, and ActionAid International, comes after the first-ever determination by a United Nations commission that Israel is perpetrating genocide in the Gaza Strip.

“Governments must act to prevent the evisceration of life in the Gaza Strip, and to end the violence and occupation. All parties must disavow violence against civilians, adhere to international humanitarian law and pursue peace,” the aid groups added.

[ SOURCE: PRESS TV and AFP ]