Urgent Call from Tyre

Our city Tyre, a living symbol of Lebanon and trans-millennial resistance in the region, one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities on Earth, home to one of the earliest ports in the Mediterranean, is currently undergoing systematic destruction by the Zionist entity. Its rich heritage is under the threat of collective erasure.

Between October 8, 2023, and June 4, 2026, the Zionist entity has killed over 7,884 martyrs and injured over 28,355 in Lebanon while repeatedly forcing the displacement of around one quarter of the Lebanese population (ca. 1,200,000 people) and targeting over one third of the country's agricultural land with ecocide while occupying multiple Lebanese border towns and the country's airspace.

During this period and further exacerbated in the last 3 weeks, the Zionist entity has been destroying entire villages and cities in Jabal Amel, Southern Lebanon. The towns of Khiam, Mhaibib, Dhaira, Yaroun, Aiita al-Shaab, Taybeh, Deir Seryan, Naqoura, Bint Jbeil, Mays al-Jabal, and Ainata, among others, have been pulverized to the ground in front of the collective eyes of the world, yet with full global impunity.

Currently, our most densely populated and oldest towns of Southern Lebanon, Tyre, Nabatieh, and Saida, are being subjected to systematic erasure. Their hospitals, civil defense centers, schools, residential homes, agricultural fields, roads, libraries, civilian and vital infrastructure, municipality buildings, waterways, and sites of cultural heritage are being repeatedly targeted with airstrikes and internationally banned munitions.

Nevertheless, global powers have decided to grant the Zionist expansionist project a carte blanche to commit all sorts of crimes against humanity in Palestine, Lebanon, Syria and the world. Their complicity in the annihilation of the people, their land, and cultures is being witnessed by people around the world.

Increasingly faced with forced mass eviction, intimidation campaigns, carpet bombings, aerial and ground invasions, and the destruction of our lands and our lives, the struggle of our people and our right to resist occupation becomes legitimate and necessary. While far too many governments are complicit in the ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing in Palestine, Lebanon, and throughout the region, it is incumbent upon justice-loving peoples to support us with urgent, actionable determination.

We call for rapid-response international mobilizations that put political and economic pressure on the Israeli colonial forces and their accomplices: through political and media efforts, demonstrations, strikes, boycotts, university occupations, actions to block the logistics of war and arms production, internationalist flotillas and solidarity convoys, and any other means necessary.

Hereby, we urgently call for the people of conscience of the world to come to the side of the people who are threatened, displaced, and murdered by the Israeli army. International presence and participation are crucial, as the people of Lebanon stand steadfast to protect their land.

We call on all political and labor organizations and civil society forces committed to justice to come together and take concrete action on the ground, for the right of our people to live free and with dignity on their land. We, Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, inhabitants of Tyre and Lebanon, united in our multiplicity, invite all people of conscience in the world to endorse these demands based on the founding principles of international law, peoples' right to self-determination, and human solidarity.

• To ensure an international mobilization that can hinder the invasion and destruction of Lebanon while relaying the voices and demands of those who stand firm against the Israeli genocidal regime
• An immediate, final, and unconditional end to the Israeli assault with a complete withdrawal of Israeli occupation forces from our land
• Abolishing the Mechanism, lifting the blockade and the return of all displaced persons to their homes, the treatment of the injured and the release of all detainees/prisoners
• Demanding reparation for the erasure of villages and the destruction of land and infrastructure.
• Prosecuting the Zionist entity and all of its complicit actors/funders in every city and court around the world.
• Intervening in all bilateral and multilateral processes and international coalitions and groupings to revoke the participation of "Israel" and all of its institutions, including in global and regional civil society networks and the UN system.