Pro-Palestinian activists hold a banner and a Palestinian flag as they protest to condemn the interception of the vessels of the Global Sumud Flotilla. Photo: Louisa Gouliamaki/Reuters.
Brussels, October 2, 2025 – Responding to the Zionist assault on the Global Sumud Flotilla sailing to break the siege on Gaza today, Mohammed Khatib, Europe coordinator of the Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network, affirmed that the only way to stop the Zionist-imperialist genocide against the Palestinian people, especially in the Gaza Strip, is “to ignite a comprehensive global popular uprising against the Zionist occupation and against all the regimes and colonial forces that sponsor it,” explaining that this uprising is not merely a protest, “but an escalating liberatory act that continues and persists and is based on boycott, strikes, civil disobedience, and the paralysis of imperialist and Zionist interests everywhere.”
Khatib said, “Palestine today is the measure of freedom and justice in the world. It is the cause of all revolutionaries, all fighters, all free people who refuse to submit to the system of plunder and extermination. Whoever stands with Palestine stands with justice and the freedom of all humanity, and whoever colludes with the occupation places themselves in the camp of murderers.”
In a media interview, he stressed the necessity of “supporting the Global Sumud Flotilla in the face of Zionist piracy and its ongoing assaults on activists in the flotilla — from ship theft and arrests and forcible expulsions to attempts to prevent aid from reaching our people in Gaza. Supporting the flotilla is a moral and political duty; every concrete act of solidarity with the flotilla is a step toward breaking the genocidal siege and demonstrating that peoples will not accept injustice.” He also called on solidarity forces and organizations to secure the safety of participants and to deliver the message clearly: “There is no place for piracy, and the Zionist entity’s attacks on these vessels will not pass without a price.”
Khatib pointed to the importance of the campaign to immediately expel the settler entity of “Israel” from the United Nations and all international institutions, considering that “the legalization of this racist and murderous colonial entity’s membership in international organizations has been nothing but a historical stain and a constant source of impunity.” He added: “There is no place for a genocidal entity in the institutions of the peoples of the world. Expelling Israel today from all sporting, artistic, cultural, and economic forums is a revolutionary duty, and any delay is complicity with the crime.”
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He emphasized that revolutionary youth and student forces, global liberation movements, and radical labor unions have today become a natural part of the struggle to liberate Palestine, not only in solidarity but by practically joining the international front of resistance for Palestine.
He affirmed that “the revolutionary youth in Palestine and Lebanon and Yemen, the Arab world, Latin America, Europe, and Africa are now expressing a new revolutionary spirit that unifies the squares and fronts of struggle and opens the road toward a global revolution against occupation and domination.”
Khatib concluded: “The war of extermination will not stop and the prisoners will not be freed from the occupation’s jails unless we turn our anger into an organized and permanent global intifada that overthrows colonial policies, confronts imperialism directly, topples dependent regimes, and uproots the occupation from its roots. This is the hour of revolution and intifada against the plans of Trump, Netanyahu, and their agents.”
(Samidoun)
