NGO Action News – 13 November 2025

This newsletter informs about recent and upcoming activities of Civil Society Organizations working on the question of Palestine. The Committee and the Division for Palestinian Rights of the UN Secretariat provide the information “as is” without warranty of any kind, and do not accept any responsibility or liability for the accuracy, or reliability of the information contained in the websites linked in the newsletter.

Middle East

• On 13 November, Gisha published the report “The War on Food Production: Food Manufacturing Sector”. According to the NGO, most food production facilities in Gaza relied on fresh agricultural produce from fields that have now been either entirely destroyed or sustained severe damage. Furthermore, access to these agricultural fields is now prohibited by Israel, as they lie mostly beyond the current deployment line of Israeli forces in Gaza. The NGO added that Israel enforced its restrictions on these areas with live fire, while blocking entry into Gaza of goods that would have been needed for the regular operation of food factories, including raw materials, and parts and spare parts for machinery, such that manufacturing is rendered impossible.
• On 10 November, Al-Haq published an article alerting that attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in various areas of the occupied West Bank have escalated sharply and unprecedentedly with the support or complicity of Israeli forces. Although these attacks primarily target Palestinians in Area C, they have also extensively reached other parts of the West Bank. The NGO added that the deterioration in access to land, services, and resources due to violence and violations severely threatened the rights of Palestinians to housing, work, and sustainable development, and weakened their resilience and connection to their land. Al Mezan and JLAC, among other organizations, published this article as well.
• On 10 November, the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights issued a press release on testimonies from a number of Palestinian detainees from Gaza who had recently been released from Israeli prisons and detention camps. According to the NGO, these accounts revealed an organized and systematic practice of sexual torture, including rape, forced stripping, forced filming, sexual assault using objects and dogs, in addition to deliberate psychological humiliation. The NGO called on the international community to take immediate action to end what it considers to be a systematic policy of torture and enforced disappearance against Palestinian detainees.

Africa, Asia and Europe

• On 13 November, Law for Palestine published the policy brief “The Gaza Peace Plan: The UNSC Draft Resolution as a New Form of Occupation Contravening International Law”. The NGO criticized a draft UN Security Council resolution that seeks to endorse the U.S. Peace Plan, stating that the draft resolution could normalize what it considers to be a genocide and legitimize a new form of occupation. The NGO added that any plan for the way forward must be centered on Palestinian agency, self-determination and decolonization and aligned with international law, including the determinations of the ICJ and relevant UN Resolutions.
• On 13 November, Agence Média Palestine published an article (in French) informing that 260 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza by the Israeli forces since the beginning of the ceasefire. The NGO also stated that Israeli forces continued the bombardment of Gaza, adding that 1,500 buildings have been destroyed in areas controlled by Israel since the ceasefire came into effect.
• On 5 November, the Palestinian Return Centre informed it has submitted a series of formal briefing notes to several governments and international bodies, including the European Parliament, and the diplomatic missions of UN Member States in New York, addressing violations of the Gaza ceasefire. The NGO added that the international community bore a clear legal and moral responsibility to ensure Israel’s adherence to international humanitarian law and to protect Palestinian civilians, urging concrete measures that translate words into action and prevent a repetition of Gaza’s ongoing humanitarian catastrophe.

North America

• On 12 November, the Foundation for Middle East Peace (FMEP) published the webinar “Without memory, there can be no justice – Archiving the Gaza Genocide”. According to the NGO, Lara Friedman, FMEP President, spoke with Zo Brown (an alias), the founder of Databases for Palestine about the project, and about why actively working to preserve evidence and memory of Israel’s genocide of Gaza, and actively working to fight the erasure of both, was central to the achievement of accountability and justice.
• On 11 November, New Jewish Narrative issued a statement calling on the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee to immediately hold a markup of the West Bank Violence Prevention Act amid a wave of unprecedented settler violence targeting Palestinians. The NGO stated that violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians had reached historic highs, and become systematic, carried out in broad daylight and too often with total impunity. According to the NGO, the West Bank Violence Prevention Act would codify President Biden’s now-repealed executive order that held violent extremists accountable, empowering the U.S. to target both Israeli and Palestinian perpetrators of violence by freezing assets and restricting travel.

United Nations

• On 25 November, the UN Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People will hold a special meeting on the occasion of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People at UN headquarters in New York, from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. The event will offer an opportunity for Member States, regional organizations and civil society to share messages of solidarity with the Palestinian people. All Member States and Observers, United Nations organizations, and intergovernmental and civil society organizations are invited to attend. The event will be webcast on UN Web TV. Similar events will take place at UN offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna as well as other locations throughout the world.
• On 12 November, the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People held its second 2025 Consultations with Civil Society Organizations at the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) headquarters, Santiago de Chile. Government authorities and representatives of civil society organizations and the Palestinian diaspora in Latin America reaffirmed their commitment to and solidarity with the Palestinian people, and called on the international community to ensure the ceasefire and the comprehensive recovery of Gaza, urging for an end to Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territory and for resolute progress on implementing the two-State solution as the surest path towards peace and security in the Middle East. Participants highlighted the importance of civil society as a force to move governments, for example to end the war in Gaza, expand the diplomatic recognition of the State of Palestine and insisted on moving a political process forward. In the margins of the event, on 11 and 13 November, the Committee Delegation held bilateral meetings with the government and parliament of Chile, as well as engagements with foreign policy experts and students.
• On 10 November, OCHA issued a press release informing that one month into the ceasefire, efforts to ramp up aid in the Gaza Strip were still being held back by red tape, ongoing bans on key humanitarian partners, too few crossings and routes, and insecurity that persisted despite the ceasefire. Nevertheless, OCHA stated that, over the past month, humanitarian partners have been providing water trucking services through 2,000 locations across the Gaza Strip. They have also distributed 15,000 hygiene kits and restored some domestic water supplies in Az Zaytoun neighbourhood of Gaza city by repairing a critical water line in the area.