WAY OUT NOW: Open Humanitarian Corridors for Gaza

Recent signers:
Martin Heller and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

Civilians in Gaza are trapped under relentless bombardment, siege, and starvation. They have no safe exit, no protection, and nowhere to go.

We demand urgent action to establish humanitarian corridors that allow civilians to evacuate — temporarily, voluntarily, and with full respect for their right to return home.

This includes enabling urgent medical evacuations and securing safe passage through crossings like Rafah.

Saving lives must be the first step.

We call on the European Union to:

  • Urgently negotiate the creation of safe humanitarian corridors for civilians in Gaza.
  • Facilitate the temporary evacuation of civilians, ensuring protection and dignity.
  • Guarantee and uphold the right of return for all Palestinians displaced by violence.
  • Ensure the immediate and safe medical evacuation of critically injured civilians.
  • Pressure for the urgent and permanent opening of the Rafah crossing to allow humanitarian aid, evacuations, and medical transfers.

Gaza’s civilians are not targets.

This campaign stands firmly for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, an end to the genocide against Palestinians, and for a free Palestine. Our ultimate goal is justice and liberation.

However, after more than 18 months of relentless bombardment, siege, and starvation, civilians in Gaza face immediate death if no action is taken. Saving lives today is not a political compromise — it is a moral imperative. We must protect the people of Gaza now, so they can one day rebuild and return to their rightful homes in freedom.

We fight for temporary, voluntary evacuations — not permanent displacement. Saving lives today must never come at the cost of a people’s right to live freely in their homeland tomorrow.

Open the way — now.

These are not just statistics. These are human lives — people with dreams, careers, and families. They are students, lawyers, teachers, artists, barbers, mothers, fathers, daughters and sons. They deserve the chance to survive, to live, and to hope.

Their voices must be heard. Here are some words of Palestinians who are urgently pleading for a safe way out.

This is Abdul Karim’s story:

Abdul, 24 years old, was a senior law student at the Islamic University of Gaza.

 

 

Before the war, he dreamed of becoming a distinguished lawyer, earning a master’s and doctorate degree, and inspiring others as a legal academic.

Today, his biggest dream is simple but urgent: "to survive this genocide along with my family, to stay alive and uninjured, and to leave Gaza to live in Europe."

Abdul describes life in Gaza now: “We are living through genocide. While the world eats in peace, we are dying of hunger. Our bodies are weak, our minds are broken by fear.”

He asks the world for one thing: “Don't leave me alone. Help me live in peace and safety. I need all of you.”

 

 

We spoke with Samah. Before the war, she was a mathematics graduate and online teacher, working passionately despite the challenges of life in Gaza. Her husband worked in clothing manufacturing, and together they dreamed of building a better future: buying a home, raising children, and living a stable, peaceful life. They had saved money slowly, piece by piece, until war and displacement destroyed everything. 

 

 

She tells us: "I want people outside Gaza to know that I’m someone who had ambition.
 My kids deserve to be in a good place and make a positive impact in their community.
 We’re not just numbers. We’re not just a number of deaths.
 We had dreams and a future.
 And we still have feelings—of joy, sadness, and thoughts.”

Meet Mohammed Elboji, who ran his own barber shop before the genocide started, and his children.

 

 

This is what he is telling us now: "Before the war, my life was stable. I worked as a barber, my children went to school, and we lived in peace and security. My biggest dream was simple — to buy a small house for my family. But the war destroyed all those hopes. Today, my only dream is survival: to have enough food and water, and to get my children out of Gaza to a place where we can live in peace and safety."

Their stories are only few among thousands. Each life, each voice, carries the same urgent plea: the right to survive, the right to safety, the right to a future.

We cannot leave them trapped under bombs and siege. We must act — for Abdul, for Mohammed, and for everyone in Gaza still fighting to stay alive.

Open the borders to aid, to life-saving evacuations, to the right to survive.

Way Out Now.

 

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Recent signers:
Martin Heller and 19 others have signed recently.

The Issue

Civilians in Gaza are trapped under relentless bombardment, siege, and starvation. They have no safe exit, no protection, and nowhere to go.

We demand urgent action to establish humanitarian corridors that allow civilians to evacuate — temporarily, voluntarily, and with full respect for their right to return home.

This includes enabling urgent medical evacuations and securing safe passage through crossings like Rafah.

Saving lives must be the first step.

We call on the European Union to:

  • Urgently negotiate the creation of safe humanitarian corridors for civilians in Gaza.
  • Facilitate the temporary evacuation of civilians, ensuring protection and dignity.
  • Guarantee and uphold the right of return for all Palestinians displaced by violence.
  • Ensure the immediate and safe medical evacuation of critically injured civilians.
  • Pressure for the urgent and permanent opening of the Rafah crossing to allow humanitarian aid, evacuations, and medical transfers.

Gaza’s civilians are not targets.

This campaign stands firmly for an immediate and permanent ceasefire, an end to the genocide against Palestinians, and for a free Palestine. Our ultimate goal is justice and liberation.

However, after more than 18 months of relentless bombardment, siege, and starvation, civilians in Gaza face immediate death if no action is taken. Saving lives today is not a political compromise — it is a moral imperative. We must protect the people of Gaza now, so they can one day rebuild and return to their rightful homes in freedom.

We fight for temporary, voluntary evacuations — not permanent displacement. Saving lives today must never come at the cost of a people’s right to live freely in their homeland tomorrow.

Open the way — now.

These are not just statistics. These are human lives — people with dreams, careers, and families. They are students, lawyers, teachers, artists, barbers, mothers, fathers, daughters and sons. They deserve the chance to survive, to live, and to hope.

Their voices must be heard. Here are some words of Palestinians who are urgently pleading for a safe way out.

This is Abdul Karim’s story:

Abdul, 24 years old, was a senior law student at the Islamic University of Gaza.

 

 

Before the war, he dreamed of becoming a distinguished lawyer, earning a master’s and doctorate degree, and inspiring others as a legal academic.

Today, his biggest dream is simple but urgent: "to survive this genocide along with my family, to stay alive and uninjured, and to leave Gaza to live in Europe."

Abdul describes life in Gaza now: “We are living through genocide. While the world eats in peace, we are dying of hunger. Our bodies are weak, our minds are broken by fear.”

He asks the world for one thing: “Don't leave me alone. Help me live in peace and safety. I need all of you.”

 

 

We spoke with Samah. Before the war, she was a mathematics graduate and online teacher, working passionately despite the challenges of life in Gaza. Her husband worked in clothing manufacturing, and together they dreamed of building a better future: buying a home, raising children, and living a stable, peaceful life. They had saved money slowly, piece by piece, until war and displacement destroyed everything. 

 

 

She tells us: "I want people outside Gaza to know that I’m someone who had ambition.
 My kids deserve to be in a good place and make a positive impact in their community.
 We’re not just numbers. We’re not just a number of deaths.
 We had dreams and a future.
 And we still have feelings—of joy, sadness, and thoughts.”

Meet Mohammed Elboji, who ran his own barber shop before the genocide started, and his children.

 

 

This is what he is telling us now: "Before the war, my life was stable. I worked as a barber, my children went to school, and we lived in peace and security. My biggest dream was simple — to buy a small house for my family. But the war destroyed all those hopes. Today, my only dream is survival: to have enough food and water, and to get my children out of Gaza to a place where we can live in peace and safety."

Their stories are only few among thousands. Each life, each voice, carries the same urgent plea: the right to survive, the right to safety, the right to a future.

We cannot leave them trapped under bombs and siege. We must act — for Abdul, for Mohammed, and for everyone in Gaza still fighting to stay alive.

Open the borders to aid, to life-saving evacuations, to the right to survive.

Way Out Now.

 

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Petition created on 26 April 2025