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CARICOM Gov’ts Urged to Take Action on Gaza

18:57 - July 13, 2025
News ID: 3493827
IQNA – The governments of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) have been urged to take measures aimed at helping to end the Israel war on Gaza.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) secretariat

 

More than 20 civil society organizations and concerned citizens across the Caribbean have written a second open letter to the Heads of Government of CARICOM demanding eight concrete measures against the Israeli regime’s ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The letter dated July 12, came as a direct response to a CARICOM statement on Gaza issued the previous day.

“We write once again as concerned citizens of the Caribbean, joined in solidarity with oppressed peoples globally, to express our outrage at CARICOM’s continued pattern of empty statements while the genocide in Gaza unfolds in full view of the world,” the letter read.

It added, “Your recent statement dated on July 11, 2025, calling for a “sustained ceasefire” is woefully inadequate. We are no longer in a time where passive diplomacy is morally or legally acceptable.”

The signatories to the letter affirmed their eight specific demands from CARICOM:

Sever diplomatic ties with Israel and ensure that no company -state or private- registered in a CARICOM member state is engaged in trading with or has other economic or financial dealing with the state of Israel or Israeli companies.

Ban the importation, integration, or use of Israeli military or dual-use security technology—including ELTA Systems, Rafael, Elbit, and NSO Group—from all government and law enforcement operations and immediately suspend all cyber-security or surveillance contracts with Israeli defense-linked companies.

Impose targeted, lawful sanctions on Israel, including comprehensive military embargoes, and prohibit selling flags to vessels carrying arms, dual-use data-x-items or other military equipment to Israel.

Cancel visa waiver programs as other states have done and install proper checks on Israeli passport holders to CARICOM states.

End all cooperation, training, or intelligence-sharing with Israeli military or security services across all ministries, police forces, and intelligence bodies.

Suspend all sporting and cultural relations with Israel as was done with apartheid South Africa.

CARICOM should officially support the historic Barbados court case seeking to hold Israel accountable for genocide and apartheid and endorse and openly support accountability measures against Israel at international courts, including South Africa’s case against Israel under the Genocide Convention before the International Court of Justice (ICJ); and the case against Israel and several of its leaders at the International Criminal Court.

Immediately work within the UN General Assembly to re-activate the UN Special Committee against Apartheid to help eradicate Israel’s regime of apartheid and hold those responsible accountable

Support the expulsion of Israel from international fora including the UNGA and other UN organs, the Olympics, FIFA having regard to the unequivocal judgments of the International Criminal Court and the International Court of Justice with respect to Israel’s violations of international laws.

In concluding the signatories demanded a public response to their letter within 7 days.

“The time for symbolic language has passed. Our Caribbean people are watching, organizing, and refusing to be silenced.”

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The signatories of the letter were:

Palestine Solidarity Action Group, Jamaica

Trinbagonians For Palestine, Trinidad & Tobago

Caribbean Freedom Collective, Caribbean region

All- African People’s Revolutionary Party– Jamaica

Movement for Social Justice (MSJ)– Trinidad and Tobago

Caribbean Against Apartheid in Palestine, Barbados

Jamaica Left Alliance for National Democracy and Socialism (LANDS), Jamaica

Curaçao for Palestine, Curaçao

Regional Articulation of African Descendants of the Americas and the Caribbean (ARAAC), Curaçao

Speak Out Jamaica, Jamaica

BDS Guyana, Guyana

Concerned Muslims of Trinidad and Tobago, Trinidad and Tobago

Haiti Support Group, Guyana

Organization for the Victory of the People (OVP), Guyana

Feminitt Caribbean, Trinidad and Tobago

Marcus Garvey People’s Political Party, Jamaica

Caribbean Movement for Peace and Integration, Barbados

Caribbean Pan-African and Indigenous Movement-All chapters, Caribbean region

13th June 1980 Movement- Guyana

Maggie Schmeitz-Foundation Ultimate Purpose- Suriname

Cayman Palestine Solidarity Network, Cayman Islands

SXM in Solidarity with Palestine, St. Maarten, Dutch Caribbean

Liz Ali, Trinidad and Tobago

Danuta Radzik- Guyana

Charlene Wilkinson- Guyana

Vanda Radzik – Guyana

Nesha Haniff– Guyana

Wintress White– Guyana

Joy Marcus– Guyana

Halima Khan- Guyana

Susan Collymore-Guyana

Mariama Williams– Jamaica

 

Source: Middle East Monitor

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