London – The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) has launched an urgent campaign, sending formal letters to the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Ms. Kaja Kallas, as well as several European foreign ministers regarding Israel’s ground invasion of Gaza City. The Centre called for immediate action to stop what it described as a “genocidal invasion,” accompanied by forced displacement and the systematic destruction of civilian infrastructure amid a complete humanitarian collapse.

Commenting on the campaign, Dr. Tarek Hamoud, Director of the PRC, stated: “What we are witnessing in Gaza is not a military operation but the deliberate erasure of an entire community before the eyes of the world. The silence of the international community—particularly Europe, which claims to champion law and human rights—can only be interpreted as a green light for Israel to persist in its crimes. Our letters are not mere requests; they are reminders of the EU’s legal and moral responsibilities. Either it stands with international law and the lives of civilians, or it becomes complicit in this historic catastrophe.”

The letters emphasized that Israel’s military operations go far beyond deterrence or self-defense, amounting to a genocidal invasion marked by indiscriminate attacks on civilians and an organized policy of forced expulsion, in blatant violation of international humanitarian law and the Fourth Geneva Convention. PRC further stressed that the systematic destruction of hospitals, schools, and water sources—coupled with the mass expulsion of Palestinians to southern Gaza under uninhabitable conditions—reveals a clear genocidal intent, as warned by UN experts and historians.

In its communications, PRC set out five urgent and concrete demands from the European Union:

The PRC concluded that the ongoing invasion represents a fundamental legal and moral challenge to the entire international system, stressing that only a firm and principled response by the European Union can protect innocent civilian lives and preserve what remains of the credibility of international law.