We, parliamentarians and public officials from across the world, commit to uphold international law not just by word but by deed.
For more than seventy-five years, the Palestinian people have lived under dispossession, siege, exile, and destruction. Today, in Gaza, that regime has reached its most brutal expression.
These crimes do not persist by accident. They are sustained by a global architecture — weapons, trade, finance, ports, insurers, export licences, and diplomatic cover — maintained by states that choose complicity over law.
In 2025, governments came together to form The Hague Group and adopted six coordinated measures to break the architecture of complicity and end impunity: halting arms exports, denying harbour to military shipments, deflagging vessels carrying military shipments, and reviewing public procurement protocols, and pursuing accountability for war crimes.
As legislators, we recognise our responsibility within that same architecture. What impunity protects, we have the authority to challenge.
Therefore, we pledge, in our respective parliaments and assemblies, to introduce and advance legislation to implement The Hague Group Measures — with a twin imperative: to sever complicity and secure accountability through:
1. Preventing the transfer of arms, munitions, military fuel, related military equipment, and dual-use items in all cases where there is a clear risk of use in violations of international humanitarian law.
2. Conditioning public contracts and funds on compliance with obligations under international law, through comprehensive review processes and conditioning mechanisms.
3. Investigating and exposing supply chains, financial flows, and corporate actors that enable violations of international humanitarian law through parliamentary inquiry and oversight.
4. Supporting accountability for the most serious crimes under international law, including through universal jurisdiction mandates where applicable in our national legal frameworks.
We reject selective standards and political exceptions. International law must apply to all states, or it protects none.
We join this effort not as observers, but as protagonists — determined to transform law into enforcement, and solidarity into material action. We will press our governments to act multilaterally and work alongside civil society, trade unions, and Palestinian organisations to ensure parliamentary action matches the demands of people on the ground.
From our legislatures to the world, we commit to help dismantle the systems that sustain the Nakba and to build the conditions for freedom, justice, and equality for the Palestinian people.
Signed,