Resolution

Condemn Israel's Genocidal Attacks on Gaza 

The 24th Congress of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) condemns Israel's genocidal attack on Gaza and demands an immediate and permanent ceasefire. Israel launched a genocidal war on Gaza, Palestine after the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack. More than 50,021 Palestinians have been killed and thousands more injured in this barbaric onslaught. 

Israel restarted its attacks on Gaza immediately after the completion of the first phase of ceasefire. Since then, it has cut the supply of food, water, fuel, aid and all other essentials to Gaza. Israel intends to strangulate and push Gaza towards starvation. It carried out attacks on hospitals, aid convoys, UN refugee shelters, schools, masjids and churches, leaving no space safe in Gaza. 60 per cent of the people killed in Israel's attacks are women and children. Journalists and UN aid workers were also targeted and killed. Crops were destroyed. All these attacks demonstrate the genocidal character of the Israeli State. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) taking cognisance of it, issued arrest warrants on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders. 

Israel is actively encouraging Zionist settlers to occupy Palestinian land in the West Bank and establish Jewish settlements. In this manner, it is slowly annexing Palestinian territory in the West Bank. All these acts are intended to drive away Palestinians from their homeland and completely annex Palestine, as a part of realising its agenda of establishing Greater Israel. 

The United States and other imperialist countries in Western Europe are actively supporting Israel in its attack on Palestine by arming and standing by it in international forums. Trump's announcement of his condemnable plans for converting Gaza into a tourist paradise by pushing out all Palestinians living there, suits Israel's interests.

The BJP central government watered down the long-held official position of India on Palestine. Instead of resolutely standing with the people of Palestine and demanding action on Israel, the BJP government is now siding with Israel. As a result, for the first time, India voted against or abstained on UN resolutions demanding a ceasefire and condemning Israel.

Such positions dented India's credibility among the developing countries and it is now seen as an ally of Israel and the US. 

In order to defend its positions, the BJP, along with the Sangh Parivar is projecting the Israeli attack on Gaza as a religious war. The RSS shares close ideological bonds with the Zionists in identifying nationality with religion and their hatred towards Muslims. It is this ideological affinity that is behind the BJP government's support to Israel. 

The 24th Congress of the CPI(M) demands an immediate ceasefire in Gaza.

Israel should be declared as an apartheid State and acted against accordingly. It demands that the BJP government stop supporting Israel and revert to the established Indian policy of supporting Palestine. Lasting peace in the region is possible only by the establishment of a Palestinian State, with East Jerusalem as its capital and with pre-1967 borders. 

The 24th Congress expresses its solidarity with the people of Palestine, and calls upon the Indian people to stand firmly with the people of Palestine in their just struggle for their homeland.