Activism for Palestine Must Embrace a Clear Vision for Change

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On 6th August, UNICEF reported that at least 300 children have been killed in Gaza by the Jewish entity in 300 days of the so-called ‘Israel-Hamas’ “Ceasefire” that came into effect in October 2025. On 1st August, the Gaza Health Ministry stated that July was the deadliest month in Gaza since the start of the ceasefire, with 152 killed, including 21 children and 14 women, bringing the numbers killed since October 2025 to over 1,200 and more than 4,000 injured by the occupation. The overall death toll in Gaza since October 2023 has been over 73,300, including more than 21,000 children, with more than 174,000 injured. UNICEF also stressed that families are now confined to one third of the Strip, due to Zionist forces occupying the rest. They are sheltering among destroyed buildings, rubble and uncleared waste, and Gaza’s children continue to face acute malnutrition, disease, unsafe water and a damaged sanitation system.

Comment:

All this comes at a time when the Jewish entity has imposed a military siege on various areas of the West Bank, escalating its raids and arrests in villages and cities, terrorizing and attacking its people. Violence against the people of Palestine in the area by Jewish settlers has also intensified, with more than 1,380 settler-related incidents since the start of 2026, averaging 6.6 a day, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). 77 people in Palestine, including 18 children have been martyred since the beginning of the year. Homes, mosques, properties and crops have been burned, agricultural lands seized, and increased settlement outposts established. Demolitions and settler violence has displaced an average of 17 people a day this year in the West Bank, with 341 demolition operations carried out by Zionist forces in the area during the first half of 2026, destroying 740 structures and affecting 923 residents. The OCHA has highlighted that more than 80 Palestinian schools across the West Bank are currently subject to demolition or related orders. And in July, more than 4200 ‘Israelis’ stormed the Al Aqsa compound and performed their Talmudic rituals and prayers.

Millions attending protests in lands across the world calling for an end to the genocide. There has also been a global call for the boycotting of products from the Zionist entity and businesses that support it, as well as international pressure on firms and governments to stop trade and the supply of weapons to the occupation to weaken it economically and militarily. This is alongside demands for the International Criminal Court (ICC), UN and states across the world to take more firm action against the Zionist entity to stop the slaughter, end its apartheid treatment of the people of Palestine and stop its further usurping of their lands. However, the killing, maiming, terrorization, arbitrary arrests, torture, starvation, suffering, and humiliation of the people of Palestine continues, and indeed intensifies.

A ‘Free Palestine’ will never materialize through any two-state solution or ceasefires or peace agreements. Nor will the genocide and occupation end through global boycotts, the ICC, UN. The only means to remove a military occupation is through the mobilization of the Muslim armies under a similar powerful state which stands for Islam and justice, fights for Islam and justice, and which is the guardian and shield of the Muslims and their Deen. This state is the Khilafah (Caliphate) based upon the method of the Prophethood, for the Prophet (saw) said:

«إِنَّمَا الْإِمَامُ جُنَّةٌ يُقَاتَلُ مِنْ وَرَائِهِ وَيُتَّقَى بِهِ» “Only the Imam (the Khalifah) is a shield behind whom you fight and you protect yourself with.”

Written for the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir by
Asma Siddiq
Member of the Central Media Office of Hizb ut Tahrir