Governments, rights groups, and popular movements across the world renewed calls for accountability, an end to Israel’s occupation, and recognition of Palestinian national rights.
Several Palestinian institutions, including the Foreign Ministry, the Ministry of Women’s Affairs, prisoners’ affairs bodies, the General Union of Palestinian Women, and the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions, issued statements calling for the restoration of Palestinian rights, accountability for Israeli actions, and an end to what they described as “international exceptionalism” that allows Israel to act with impunity.
They said persistent double standards have emboldened Israel to continue its violations and pursue expansionist policies that pose grave risks.
Additionally, Palestinian resistance group Hamas called for escalating global popular mobilization against Israel and its practices targeting Palestinians.
Hamas noted that the International Day of Solidarity falls nearly 50 days after the Gaza ceasefire agreement—brokered by Egypt, Qatar, Turkey, and the US and signed at the Sharm El-Sheikh Peace Summit—took effect.
The movement said the Israeli government continues to carry out daily violations, including demolitions, shelling, assassinations, and obstructing aid, in “flagrant” breach of the agreement.
It added that Israel is intensifying its aggression, settlement expansion, and Judaization efforts in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, in open violation of international law.
Genocide and a dream deferred
The UN General Assembly first called for the International Day of Solidarity in 1977, choosing 29 November to mark the anniversary of its 1947 partition plan for Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state.
This year’s commemoration comes as the number of UN member states that recognized the right of the Palestinian people to establish their state in the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and East Jerusalem, terrories occupied by Israel since 1967, reached 157 of the 193 UN member states.
The commemoration comes amid the ongoing devastation of Israel's two-year genocidal war on the Gaza Strip, where it killed nearly 70,000 Palestinians, wounded over 170,000, and left around 90 percent of the territory in ruins—which the United Nations (UN) estimates will cost $70 billion to rebuild—even as a fragile ceasefire, in effect since 10 October, continues to be repeatedly violated by Israeli occupation forces.
It also comes amid global condemnation of the Israeli policies of land grab, forced displacement, and killing of hundreds of Palestinians by the Israeli army and settlers in the occupied West bank and East Jerusalem.
Against this backdrop, international and Arab voices stressed that solidarity must translate into political pressure, legal action, and sustained support for Palestinian self-determination.
Arab and international solidarity: From Amman to Moscow
Regionally, Egypt reaffirmed that Palestinian statehood “is not just a political demand, but a historical entitlement."
In a statement from the Foreign Ministry, Egypt said the annual observance is a crucial milestone for upholding justice and renewing the international political and moral commitment to the Palestinian people’s inalienable rights.
“The Palestinian right to self-determination and the establishment of an independent state is not just a political demand, but a historical entitlement enshrined in international law,” the statement read.
In Jordan, the National Forum to Support Resistance and Protect the Homeland organised a protest on Friday outside the Al-Husseini Mosque in Amman, calling for support for the resilience of Palestinians in Gaza and rejecting settlement policies in the West Bank.
Hundreds of Moroccans also demonstrated across several cities in solidarity with Palestinians.
The Kuwaiti Ministry of Foreign Affairs reiterated Kuwait's firm solidarity with the Palestinian people and their struggle to obtain their inalienable rights, including statehood on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as capital.
Globally, in the United Kingdom, Palestine solidarity movements mobilised despite increased attempts by authorities to restrict or criminalise activism.
In Russia, the Palestinian Embassy in Moscow—in cooperation with the Russian Foreign Ministry, the Arab League Mission, and the UN Information Office—marked the day with an event attended by diplomats from across the Arab world, Europe, Latin America, as well as political, media, and civil society figures.
Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Vershinin read a message from President Vladimir Putin reaffirming Moscow’s “principled and consistent” position in support of the Palestinian cause and its right to an independent state on the 1967 borders with East Jerusalem as its capital.
The UN commemorates
Earlier on Saturday, UN Secretary-General António Guterres reaffirmed that the Palestinian people possess an inherent right to dignity, justice, and self-determination. His remarks came as cities across the world and the Arab region marked the annual day.
Guterres underscored that Palestinian rights have been repeatedly violated over the past two years, reiterating his call for an end to Israel’s illegal occupation. He also stressed the need for irreversible progress toward a two-state solution that would allow Israelis and Palestinians to live side by side in peace and security.
In September, a high-level international conference on implementing the two-state solution at the United Nations headquarters adopted the “New York Declaration" in a historic step toward establishing a Palestinian state.
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