World Council of Churches Calls for Sanctions on Israel
PALESTINE ISRAEL GAZA GENOCIDE, 12 Jan 2026
Middle East Monitor - TRANSCEND Media Service
A view of damaged building as the historical buildings such as mosques, churches, baths and bazaars are damaged or destroyed by Israeli attacks in Gaza City, Gaza on 6 Jan 2024. [Bilal Salem – Anadolu Agency]
31 Dec 2025 – The World Council of Churches has called on the European Union to impose sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel over what it described as a war of genocide in the Gaza Strip and violations against Palestinians in the West Bank.
Iskandar Majlton, the local coordinator of the Ecumenical Accompaniment Programme in Palestine and Israel, which is affiliated with the World Council of Churches, said the council was “deeply shocked by the cycle of violence and the immense suffering” in the region.
He said the council’s position is based on international law and human rights, and that it strongly condemns all attacks targeting civilians.
He added that the world is witnessing an “unprecedented humanitarian disaster” in the Gaza Strip, where thousands of civilians have been killed, most of them women and children, and where almost the entire population has been displaced amid widespread of destruction, hunger and disease.
He stressed that the “tragic cycle of violence” in Gaza did not begin in October 2023, but is the result of decades of occupation, the blockade imposed on Gaza, and systematic inequality.
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Tags: Anti Zionism, Ceasefire, Collective Punishment, Colonialism, Colonization, Crimes against Humanity, Cultural violence, Direct violence, Ethnic Cleansing, Gaza, Genocide, Israel, Israeli occupation, Palestine, Palestinian Holocaust, Sociocide, State Terrorism, Structural violence, USA, War crimes
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