Gaza city is under attack: standing with soldiers who say no

Mattan here. I spent 110 days in military prison for refusing to serve in the Israeli occupation army. As Israel escalates its assault on Gaza City, the images are unbearable. Entire neighborhoods reduced to rubble, children buried under debris, destruction on a scale words can hardly capture. At the very same time, a new wave of draft orders has gone out, summoning more people into this machinery of annihilation. It is a reminder of what is at stake. Every soldier who refuses has the power to stop this. That is why RSN has devoted most of our resources to supporting reservists in refusal. Thanks to your support, together we have built the most effective resistance against the genocide in Gaza. Many reservists are saying no, slowing the destruction, and saving lives. Please continue to stand with them.

This week I spoke with our partner Max Kresch from Soldiers for Hostages, an organization we finance, support, and help grow in order to end this war. Over the last two weeks, they have run a bold campaign across the country. Billboards featuring Max and other refusers in uniform went up with a single word: “Stop!” The backlash was immediate. The Shadow, a far-right influencer, posted their photos online, calling them “traitors.” Soon enough, the hate and harassment poured in.

And yet, something else happened too. Amid the threats came a wave of support. People saw the absurdity of being branded a “traitor” for wanting to save lives. Messages began arriving from those ready to sign, to refuse, to join. Soldiers for Hostages is growing, even as fear tries to silence them. They now number over 350. Over the past year, we have normalized refusal as a legitimate act of resistance, from just a handful in the beginning to hundreds now. Resist with us. Support refusers.

Together with movement partners, Soldiers for Hostages has also launched a new hotline and resource basket for potential refusers. Many still do not know refusal is even possible within such a militarized society. But now, every day, messages arrive from soldiers and reservists who feel trapped, desperate for another path. Through this hotline, we are showing them they are not alone, that refusal is possible, and that when done together it can be powerful.

The government wants to make refusal unthinkable. We are making it mainstream. Every act of refusal chips away at the system that makes bombings like those in Gaza City, and the draft orders that sustain them, possible. And we will keep building until the cracks become irreversible.

All this is possible because of you and our 21,000 supporters. Your support has created the most powerful resistance to genocide. With your continued commitment, we can bring it closer to an end.

"Resistance Solidarity Network" is making a difference for activists on the ground

Atalya here. I spent 110 days in jail after refusing to serve in the Israeli military in 2017. Now, I’m the media manager at Refuser Solidarity Network. Last week, settlers attacked Palestinians and protective presence activists in the South Hebron Hills. Among them were some of my closest friends, people I have worked alongside for years. Their car, a lifeline for their protective presence work, was smashed beyond use. For days, they were stranded, unable to reach the families who rely on them for safety against constant settler harassment. When I saw their photos and heard their voices, I felt both fear and fury. But within hours, we shared their story on our social media channels, and something powerful happened. People from around the world rushed to help. Donations poured in. Thanks to that fundraiser, my friends now have a repaired car, and they are already back on the road, standing with the communities who need them most.

This is what our Instagram page, until now called Voices Against the War, was created to do. And this is why we are renaming it as Resistance Solidarity Network. Follow Resistance Solidarity Network on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Tiktok for the latest news from the ground and calls to action.

For months, we’ve used this platform to report what the Israeli media refuses to show: stories of refusers breaking ranks, settlers attacking villages, activists risking their freedom, Palestinians resisting occupation and genocide, and moments of solidarity that connect these struggles across the world. International coverage often misses or distorts these realities. The Israeli media buries them entirely. That’s why this platform matters.

It is more than news. It is an alternative media channel, a bridge between our movement and its support network. When we post, people in New York, Berlin, São Paulo, and Johannesburg hear what is happening here and act, whether that means donating to a protective presence car, joining a protest, or sharing the testimony of an Israeli refuser.

Renaming the channels as Resistance Solidarity Network reflects what it has already become: a place not only for voices, but for connection, solidarity, and action. It is about building a global network of resistance against genocide, occupation, and militarism.

I invite you to follow Resistance Solidarity Network on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and Tiktok. Share our posts, amplify the voices we lift up, and help us grow this bridge between movements.

Together, we will keep telling the truth from the ground, resist, and we will keep building the solidarity needed to win.

More Israelis refusing than ever in country’s history

Tal here, Refuser Solidarity Network’s international solidarity coordinator. This past month, we’re witnessing tremendous breakthroughs in the resistance to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. On the eve of Israel’s occupation of Gaza City, new reports confirm we are seeing the highest rate of refusal seen in the country’s history. This comes as Israel sent out over 60,000 new draft orders to man its occupation of Gaza. But people are growing tired of this war. Not only is refusal at an unprecedented high, people are marching in the streets at levels unseen before. In Tel Aviv alone, over 400,000 people filled the streets two weeks ago to demand an end to the war. The government’s plans are a desperate attempt to keep the war going as they send out endless draft notices, all while more and more people are publicly and silently refusing and hitting the streets. As Israel desperately attempts to draft more soldiers into the military in its planned occupation of Gaza, we expect to see more and more refusers coming forward. That is why we need your help to support this growing refuser wave, by providing them with capacity-building, training and legal defense. 

Netanyahu’s announcement of his plan to occupy Gaza City has unleashed a wave of civil resistance. Our organizers on the streets have made it clear: more people are willing to refuse service than ever. The national war effort is losing popular support.  In cities across the land, demonstrations are ongoing, not just in Tel Aviv. And many are realizing that they cannot just chant against the war. They are realizing they must refuse to participate in it. Our numbers are growing as refusal becomes more mainstream than ever. Over 350 people have refused publicly and our partners report that thousands have refused silently.

People who have never demonstrated before are now filling the streets. Palestinian and Jewish communities are standing together, despite police repression and political intimidation. We know from history that protests can open space, but only organized refusal movements can end wars and dismantle systems of oppression. As refusal continues to skyrocket, we need to be prepared to support all new refusers. They need to become organizers, not just individuals, capable of ending the genocide. 

That is where we come in. Help us strengthen this movement by donating today, so we can provide refusers with the necessary tools to become independent organizers, harnessing their strength to end the unforgivable genocide of the Palestinian people that has carried on for far too long.

18-year-old jailed for refusing Israel’s genocide

Just last month, 18-year-olds Ayana Gertsmann and Yuval Peleg publicly refused mandatory military service in the Israeli occupation forces. By refusing service, they are refusing the genocide, occupation and extermination of the Palestinian people. At such a young age, they are now part of a much longer lineage of resistance to colonial wars by refusing to sacrifice herself on the altar of ethnic supremacy. We stand in solidarity with Ayana and Yuval who are setting an example for us all on how to stubbornly refuse in the darkest of times, and call on our supporters all over the world to let your communities know about Ayana and Yuval. As they sit in a military prison for their brave decision, we need all of our friends abroad to forward Ayana's public letter below to everyone you know, and more importantly, send Ayana and Yuval a letter of support at this link. Below are Ayana’s words to the world:

My name is Ayana Gerstmann, I’m 18 years old, and Israeli law dictates that I must enlist. I have decided to refuse to enlist, as my morals have obligated me to do so, and I choose to act accordingly.

I was raised in a family that often mentioned the moral failure that is in the military service. And yet, at a young age, I did not fully understand what that moral failure of the military service, that my mom would often talk about, actually was. I had no idea what was happening around me:  what were the territories and what was the occupation. I remember that in 4th grade I participated in my school’s Jerusalem Day ceremony. I danced, sang and recited nationalistic texts without even imagining that there is a problem with the joyful celebration of what was displayed to us as the “Unification of Jerusalem - The Eternal Capital”.

A year later, in 5th grade, my political ignorance had been shattered. In the days before Jerusalem Day, we were given a research assignment about important places in Jerusalem. It is clear to me today that the goal of that assignment was to strengthen my nationalistic tendencies, but its outcome was the opposite. I read about East Jerusalem, and for the first time was exposed to it as it was depicted in the B'Tselem website. Suddenly my eyes were opened to what hid behind the national pride celebrations I had participated in a year earlier - occupation and oppression. Suddenly, and at once, I had been made aware of the deep suffering of millions of people, that prior I hadn’t even known existed, whose freedom is crushed day by day, hour by hour, by the occupation regime.

From that moment, the realization that I absolutely cannot be a bolt in the military system that is enforcing the occupation regime, and making the lives of the Palestinians miserable as a policy, had been growing. I will not be part of a system that is routinely expelling communities, killing innocents, and allowing settlers to take over their lands. Since October 7th this realization had come to its peak due to the army’s actions in Gaza. Since the start of the war tens of thousands of women and children had been killed, and hundreds of thousands had been displaced from their homes, living today in refugee camps, deprived of their dignity and starving. This humanitarian catastrophe is a result of the army’s actions, the result of the war that has been going on for nearly two years, and has lost its goals long ago. For two years I see bloodshed as a result of a hopeless war of revenge. I see tens of thousands of Gazan children that are born and raised with endless despair, into death and destruction that make up a neverending circle of hate, revenge and murder. I see hundreds of youths my age getting killed as they are sent by the state to eternalize this circle. I see a war that is only endangering the lives of the hostages. And I cannot be silent in the face of these things.

I cannot be silent in a society silence took over. I do not have the privilege to be silent, when I know that everyone around me has long been silent. Israeli society has been seeing the occupation for six decades and is closing its eyes. Israeli society has been seeing Gazan children killed in bombins and is closing its eyes. Israeli society sees the army committing the worst of moral atrocities, and decides to be silent. Israeli society is not ready to acknowledge the atrocities its army is committing against innocents, because people know that once they do, they will be unable to deal with the guilt. And instead of invoking its morality and opposing the atrocities, Israeli society silences every hint of its immorality, justifies whatever cannot be silenced, and labels any opposition of the war as evil, out of a fear that it will label itself as such, if it will dare to look at the truth. Throughout the war I hear the phrase “there are no innocents in Gaza” countless times, and am outraged. I hear this phrase normalized more and more. I see people that wholeheartedly believe that even the youngest of Gaza’s children isn’t innocent, and therefore will be given no mercy. On this I want to say: a child is always innocent! For it is obvious to me that I too as a child was innocent, when I took part in the Jerusalem Day ceremonies. I couldn’t choose otherwise when I read out the nationalistic texts I was told to read, while completely ignoring the Palestinian suffering of which I was unaware. An unknowing child cannot make his own choices, and therefore is innocent.

But now, having matured, my innocence is not unconditional. That is why I know that if I decide to stay silent now that I’m aware of the suffering inflicted upon millions by the army, I will be complicit in the crime. Today I know that I cannot be silent in the face of suffering. I cannot be silent in the face of killing and destruction. And today I know that enlisting in the army is worse than silence: it is cooperation with a system that is hurting millions. That is why I refuse, and do so loudly. I will not cooperate, and I will not be part of the silence that enables the worst of atrocities to be committed in my name. As a citizen of the country I say clearly: the destruction of Gaza - not in my name! The occupation - not in my name! I refuse to be silent, in hope that my voice will open the eyes of others in society, and make them aware of what’s being done in their name, until they stay silent no more.

Please forward Ayana's public letter below to everyone you know, and more importantly, send Ayana and Yuval a letter of support at this link. You are their voice.

Honouring Awdah Hathaleen, our friend and partner

Tal here. We are heartbroken to share that our friend, partner, and teacher, Awdah Hathaleen, was killed on July 28 by an armed Israeli settler in his home village of Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank. As his community mourns, his friends are raising funds to help his family and village recover from this loss and rebuild in the wake of the violence. 

Awdah was many things: a committed activist against the occupation, an educator, a neighbour, and a steadfast presence in the struggle for his community’s survival and for a free Palestine. For years, he welcomed visitors, journalists, and activists into Umm al-Khair, patiently explaining the realities of settler violence and land theft. He understood that education was not only for classrooms, but a way of living that is built on relationships and a deep understanding of living a shared life in a shared world. Whether speaking to local schoolchildren or to an international human rights delegation, Awdah’s quiet patience never diminished the urgency of his message.

He was a movement partner to many of us at RSN and to the wider Israeli left. Many of us learned from him not only about Masafer Yatta, but about how to sustain resistance without losing sight of dignity or care for others. His approach to struggle, rooted in teaching, listening, and building understanding, remains a model for our movements.

In the days after his killing by an Israeli settler as soldiers watched on, his body was withheld for ten days before being released for burial. Even his funeral was subject to restrictions and intimidation. Yet his community carried him home, and his legacy now belongs to all who believe in freedom and equality.

Awdah’s death is an immeasurable loss for his family, for Umm al-Khair, for our shared movement, and for everyone who fights for a just future everywhere. We will honour him not only in words, but in action, right now by supporting his village as they recover from this violence and continue the struggle he gave his life to.

Please give what you can to help Umm al-Khair rebuild and to carry on the work that Awdah dedicated his life to.

Intelligence officers are refusing, and organizing. Let’s support them.

Tal here, solidarity coordinator at Refuser Solidarity Network. A new public letter has just been published by dozens of current and former officers in Israeli military intelligence. These are not fringe actors. They are veterans of Israel’s most elite intelligence units, and they are refusing. Refusing to serve a government they call anti-democratic. Refusing to take part in a war they describe as political, not defensive. Refusing to obey orders they say are morally bankrupt and strategically disastrous. Now is the time to support them and others like them. Your donation today will help us provide this wave of refusers with the tools, mentorship, and infrastructure to get organized, build capacity, and become independent organizers in a lasting anti-war movement.

"When a government acts out of foreign interests, harms its citizens, and leads to the killing of innocent people, the orders it issues are manifestly illegal, and it is our duty not to obey them. … This is a war intended to maintain the rule of Netanyahu, Smotrich, and Ben Gvir, and we refuse to take part in it. We can no longer serve Netanyahu’s war for political survival. Some of us will refuse publicly, through statements in the media and on social networks, and many others will do so in other, non-public ways–'gray refusal'.”

This letter marks a rupture in the military consensus. These are people who know the system from the inside: analysts, field researchers, linguists, tech experts, and cyber operatives. And they are saying what many understand but few dare to say: This war is not about rescuing hostages or defending Israeli civilians. It is about preserving a collapsing government.

They are exposing the truth. That the return to combat was a political decision to sabotage a hostage deal. That the hostages who have died were not killed by Hamas, but by Israeli bombs. That the war is not only unjust, but illegal. That refusing to follow orders is not only a right, it is a duty in the face of mass starvation and genocide of the Palestinian people.

Some of these refusers are going public. Others are refusing quietly, behind the scenes. All of them are entering dangerous terrain, legally, socially, and emotionally. This is where we come in. We know that public refusal is only the beginning. What happens afterward is just as important. We help refusers become organizers, provide legal defense, press strategy and capacity-building, connect new refusers with movement veterans, and turn them into a political force that lasts beyond the news cycle.

Your donation makes this work possible. These intelligence officers took a small risk. What comes next depends on what we build around them. Let’s meet this moment with everything we’ve got.

The cracks are showing, and we must widen them

Atalya Ben-Abba here, media manager at Refuser Solidarity Network. Last week, the Israeli daily Haaretz published a brutal yet predictable exposé: Israeli soldiers were given explicit orders to shoot at unarmed Palestinians waiting at Gaza aid distribution sites. Soldiers are now coming forward to share what they witnessed and what they were told to do. These orders, to shoot into crowds at humanitarian aid drop points, are not accidental misfires. They are part of a pattern. And now, the truth is rising to the surface. This moment matters, because what we do with these cracks will shape what comes next. Which is why you should send this email to a friend who should be paying attention. Ask them to sign up to our subscribers list and follow this movement.

The latest reports remove any room for doubt: "It's a killing field," one soldier said. "Where I was stationed, between one and five people were killed every day. They're treated like a hostile force – no crowd-control measures, no tear gas – just live fire with everything imaginable: heavy machine guns, grenade launchers, mortars. Then, once the center opens, the shooting stops, and they know they can approach. Our form of communication is gunfire."

The soldiers speaking out in Haaretz aren’t radicals. They’re not activists. Many of them are still in uniform. But they are disturbed by the war crimes and abuses many of them have taken part in carrying out, and they are beginning to talk. This is exactly where disobedience begins: when orders no longer make sense, and when conscience becomes louder than nationalist illusion.

These testimonies point to something deeper: The war is unraveling. The official narratives are collapsing. Soldiers are losing faith in the mission. What we’re seeing isn’t just a moral rupture, it’s an operational one. It’s in these cracks that refusal can take hold. But only if we are organized enough to respond.

At RSN, we are working every day to meet this moment: tracking these stories, sharing them in international media, translating soldier testimonies, and supporting the emotional and legal needs of those willing to take the next step and refuse.

As we’ve said from the beginning: there is no occupation without soldiers. And as soldiers speak out, and begin to resist—publicly or quietly—they need to know they’re not alone. Despite the outrage and anger directed at them for their participation in a livestreamed genocide, we believe in providing them a way out, to refuse service, and to participate in resistance to the war. We’re ready to support any new refusers, and we need you to support us.

Thank you for helping us build the structures that make that possible.

I went to prison to end the occupation – now I need your help

Mattan here. I am the executive director of Refuser Solidarity Network and I am a refuser who spent 110 days in prison because I refused to take part in the occupation. Refuser Solidarity Network is a network–and that means that you are part of it. Our model is decentralized. We provide spontaneous refusers with the tools they need to get organized to become a political force. This work, of offering support, tools and amplification is at the core of our work, and it’s also how you, our supporters around the globe, can support the Israeli resistance and end the occupation. We rely on you to bring refusers’ stories and message to the world, to put a stop to the genocide in Gaza. When I was imprisoned for 110 days, I relied on supporters from far and wide, across the world, to make my refusal meaningful on an international scale. I hoped that my sacrifice and imprisonment would reveal the criminal Israeli state’s contradictions, and while I was behind bars, I relied on global supporters to carry my message forward. Today, as Executive Director of RSN, I continue to rely on global solidarity so that we can continue to carry out our work. We need you to help us reach our mid-year goal of $30,000 so that we can continue to expand the growing refuser wave currently taking place. If you have already donated, share our campaign with your communities.

Why is amplification so important? When I was 16, I decided to refuse to serve in the army because of the Israeli occupation. It was not out of a drive for moral purity, but rather to declare that this must end, and use my refusal to spread this message and confront others. Refusing is not only a personal act of conscience, but above all a political act to mobilise people against the occupation. Being imprisoned, sacrificing my freedom, social status and facing consequences for my choice put me in a position to create an impact. People are often puzzled at first. “Why doesn’t he serve like everyone else? Why does he prefer to be in prison rather than be in the army? What is the army doing that is so bad?” They are confronted with the injustice and the oppression, and can not ignore it. They must take a stand, an action. It’s true both in Israel and on an international scale. Our actions open up new possibilities, people become open to new perspectives, our voice creates an impact and mobilises people as part of a wider movement. That is why the act of refusal is so powerful, it is powerful as long as our voice has been amplified. That is why we are focusing on refusers’ voices at RSN, and it’s just as important that you do too. This is why we need you, and all our supporters to help us to amplify their voices.

This is how we build power across borders. This is how we grow a refusal movement that can take on a genocidal war machine and win. Right now, we are seeing a sharp rise in interest and resistance. Soldiers are breaking ranks. Protesters are flooding the streets. More and more people are starting to ask: What can I do? If you’ve been wondering the same thing, we are calling on you to join us.

Just last month, the Israeli authorities imprisoned the first reservist refuser in recent memory. The cracks are emerging, and the war effort is unraveling. Now more than ever, we are counting on you to help us reach our mid-year goal of $30,000 so that we can carry on our work in getting refusers organized and amplifying their actions. Just like I counted on you when I was imprisoned 10 years ago, I am turning to you today.

I was jailed and I felt alone: emotional support for refusers

Mattan here. In 2017 I spent 110 days in a military prison for refusing to join the Israeli occupation forces. Today, I am the executive director of Refuser Solidarity Network (RSN). Now more than ever, we urgently need a long-term movement to put a stop to the genocide in Gaza and end the occupation. But to build a sustainable anti-war movement, we also need to support people on another front as they face fines, jail time, and social exclusion: emotionally. I would like to tell you about our new emotional support program for refusers and the struggles I had as a refuser. We are counting on you to help us fund this vital program, so that every potential refuser knows they have a support system waiting for them. Help us reach our mid-year goal of $30,000.

We, refusers, do not talk as much about our emotional struggles following our decisions to refuse to join the army. As a public-facing activist, I forced myself to put on a brave face and keep my struggles in prison to myself. I wanted the focus on my message: a stop to the endless occupation. I also felt guilty admitting I was struggling because I felt that I could not complain or pity myself while there are Palestinians who suffer in Israeli military prisons and under the occupation. But today, I understand that this perspective is unproductive, for myself and for the anti-war movement, as it prohibits self-care, causes burnout, and makes resistance unsustainable.

I would like to share my struggles from that period with you. As a result of my refusal, I was facing the brunt of social exclusion at the hands of a thoroughly militarised Israeli society. I was forced out of my youth movement and the commune I was living in by friends I had lived with for over a year. I had fights with family members and I lost friends. Military prison, of course, was a struggle. My freedom was taken from me, I was forced to act like a soldier and spent my time there alone. I even received threats from other prisoners. The hardest part was that I didn't know when I would be released and how long I would be in prison. I remember that close to the end of my imprisonment, I started to feel like I could not handle it anymore. I was conflicted because I was suffering but at the same time, I decided to refuse and to put myself in this position. Until today, I carry with me scars that I didn't deal with from my time in prison. During this experience, there was no system of emotional support and a place to process my experience. I felt so alone.

Back then I thought that I was the only refuser who struggled. Later on, I realized these struggles were not only mine – they are shared by all refusers. In conversations with younger refusers, we decided to form a support circle. We offer an emotional support system through trained therapists that build a support group for past, present and future refusers, where bravery and heroism can be put aside. Our support circle equips refusers with a necessary infrastructure of support and care: they receive emotional and social support, learn coping strategies and hear about each other's experiences. We help refusers to transform their experience from emotional struggles to sources of empowerment. We change the culture of the movement from toxic heroism to self-care and compassion. We also plan to use the knowledge garnered from our support group to publish a self-care handbook with emotional and practical advice for future refusers. 

When I refused, our movement did not yet offer this type of crucial support. In order to become a lifelong resistance movement, we need to make sure refusers have the skills and knowledge, and access to resources to sustain their work. We also need potential refusers to know that if they refuse, we will be there for them. Our psychological support forum is only possible because of you, << Test First Name >>, and your support. We ask all our friends abroad to make a donation today to make this program possible. We need to reach our $30,000 goal.

Only with these kinds of long-term support structures can we produce life-long activists. If we want to build long-term opposition to the military-industrial complex and demilitarize the world over, we need structures of care.

A new initiative to end the genocide: help us stop the bloodshed

Mattan here. As the genocide in the Gaza Strip marches forward, Israeli soldiers return from reserve duty shaken. Families are asking questions they didn’t ask before. The justifications are wearing thin. As the untenable violence continues, and with it, a deepening disillusionment is spreading across Israeli society, leading to more and more people quietly refusing. We’re seeing a shift in the public conscience, not just isolated acts of dissent. Refusal has entered the mainstream in a way that it never has, under the recognition that serving the Israeli war machine is against ordinary Israelis’ interests. Our new initiative,”Hitnagdut” (resistance in Hebrew), was created for this movement: we are cultivating a sustained anti-war and anti-occupation movement by providing training and support to spontaneous refusal and protest initiatives. We need to provide the activists with tools and infrastructure to sustain this momentum and end the genocide in Gaza and the occupation. We need your help to make it happen: help us reach our mid-year goal of $30,000 to launch Hitnagdut.

In the immediate aftermath of October 7th, opposing the war publicly was taboo and semi-illegal, let alone refusing. We did not have the power or infrastructure to oppose the war effectively and stop the Israeli attack before it even started. We realized we have to build real movement infrastructure. The first initiative we supported was “Ani Siravti”, in Hebrew ‘I Refused’, which launched a media campaign to publicly share the stories of reserve soldiers who refused service in order to normalize the act during a time of heightened nationalism and reaction.

As the war trudged on, more and more people were beginning to realize that this war of annihilation was never about its stated goals of returning the Israeli hostages. Just one year ago, we began to work with a young group of reservists who were ready to publicly refuse on the eve of the invasion of Rafah in May 2024. With our help, they published an open letter alongside around 40 other signatories, sending shockwaves across Israeli society, and garnering a response from the Prime Minister himself and the country’s war cabinet. This was followed by several interviews in the studios of mainstream news channels, tailed by another public letter in October 2024 with an expanded list of signees. This fledgling group eventually decided to organize themselves under the banner Soldiers for Hostages.

A new initiative of Refuser Solidarity Network, Hitnagdut is a desert greenhouse for cultivating organised refusal. We exist to channel disillusionment into action, and action into strategy. Our goal: to transform individual grassroots initiatives into a coordinated anti-war movement from within. Over the past six months, we have incubated one of the most visible expressions of this shift: Soldiers for Hostages, a group of reservists who returned from Gaza and publicly declared they would not serve again until the Israeli hostages return home, which necessitates an end to the war. What began as a handful of ex-soldiers has since grown into a movement of nearly 300 public refusers and growing, organizing on the streets, in the media, and in military circles across the country.

The work of Soldiers for Hostages has cleared the path for a radically different political landscape today: refusal has gone mainstream. Stickers line the streets of Tel Aviv calling on fellow patriots to refuse, while more and more reservists join the ranks of Soldiers for Hostages. “Refuse!” is now a common refrain, not limited to the anti-war left. Newspapers are chock full of emerging reports detailing more and more soldiers and reservists threatening to refuse duty. Refusal has not only become mainstream, but even patriotic.

Help us to build long-term movement infrastructure–if you believe in refusal not just as a moral act but as a political strategy–support us in reaching our mid-year campaign goal today. We are raising $30,000 in order to expand Hitnagdut, to assist the mosaic of actors who want a different reality. The disillusionment is already here, and we are here to give it shape. 

Breaking: A soldier jailed for refusing genocide

Mattan here. I am the executive director of Refuser Solidarity Network and an Israeli refuser. Last week, for the first time in many years, a reserve soldier was jailed for refusing to serve in protest of the ongoing genocide. His name is Daniel Yahalom, and he is refusing over the barbaric genocide in Gaza and the ongoing settler-military takeover of the West Bank. From the beginning, we’ve made it clear: the military cannot afford mass refusal. They’re trying to project strength, but the longer this war drags on, the more the cracks begin to show. They hoped punishment would break our resolve, but they’re only strengthening our movement. Let's show him that he is not alone! Write a support letter to Daniel and ask 3 friends to do the same. 

Daniel had already served more than 200 days since the war began. But when he understood the destruction, he made a choice. In his words: "Since October 7, I have served over 235 days in the reserves with a heavy heart. I was haunted by a heavy feeling that the fate of the hostages was being forsaken and that the war, which is largely unbridled, is being paid for in Gazan blood... The situation in the West Bank also got worse and worse... Meanwhile, what about the hostages? Every day they were dragged to the margins of the exhausted Israeli consciousness.”

Following Daniel’s arrest, “Soldiers for the Hostages”, a group of soldiers who refuse to take part in the war on Gaza, held an emergency protest outside the military prison where Daniel is being held. They showed up wearing shirts that read: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust wars.” Our movement made itself heard, reminding Daniel he is not alone.

This isn’t just about one soldier, it never was. His arrest is a test. The government is betting that fear will silence us, that one prison cell will be enough to keep the rest in line. But his arrest has had the opposite effect, and it has only given our movement momentum. As opposition to the government and calls for the end of the war grow, the arrest of refusers continues to bring our movement into the mainstream. Hundreds have signed our refusal letter, more are joining every day, and we’re not going anywhere till the end of the genocide and the occupation.

This moment marks an escalation on the part of the government, but also an opening. The media is watching while the public asks questions. People who once believed refusal was unthinkable are beginning to reconsider. That’s where we come in. We’re opening another way forward, a way of hope and resistance.

We fight to end the genocide, and to the systems of occupation that make wars like this inevitable. Until then, we will support all those wrongfully jailed for refusing service and the current state of affairs. We will continue to show up. At jails. At protests. In the streets. In the press. Now is the time for civil resistance. For those supporting us from afar,  let's show Daniel that he is not alone! Write him a support letter and ask 3 friends to do the same.

Israel’s War Is Spreading. Our Movement Must Too.

Mattan here. I’m writing to you with urgency–and with hope. The Israeli war machine is escalating. What began as a genocidal campaign in Gaza spiraled into a full-blown regional assault. As Israel expanded its assault into Iran, it became clear to us all: this government has no intention of stopping its endless wars, not just on the Palestinian people but throughout the Middle East. It’s not about hostages. It’s not about defense. It’s about annihilation–and political survival. But there is another force at work. A growing refusal movement from within Israeli society is threatening the very foundation of this war effort. And with your support, we’ve been helping lead it. Following the ceasefire with Iran, the mainstream Israeli media is covering the “return to normalcy”. But there is nothing normal, not just about the regional assault on Iran, but about the continuation of the genocide in Gaza as well. And as Israel continues to try to normalize a life of endless warfare and instability, we continue to escalate our tactics and efforts. We need to be ready to support new movements, spontaneous refusers, and civil resistance across the country’s streets that are already emerging as the public grows evermore tired from endless warfare. That is why we are building a new ecosystem of refusal, but we cannot do it without your help. We’ve raised 60% of our $30,000 goal so far, and we urgently need our supporters across the world to help us close the gap so that we can effectively resist the Israeli war machine.

Over the past month, we’ve brought you inside the growing infrastructure of resistance we’ve built, together, in the heart of a militarized state.

We told you how our new initiative, Hitnagdut, is transforming spontaneous dissent into organized refusal, equipping activists with the training, support, and resources they need to grow into a sustained anti-war force. 

We told you how Soldiers for Hostages, the movement of reservists publicly refusing to serve, was incubated through RSN support, and how it’s now grown into the most visible and politically disruptive refuser initiative in Israel today. Over 325 soldiers have already signed on. And that number is only rising. 

And we told you about the emotional toll of refusal, how RSN is building the support structures that keep activists from burning out, breaking down, or giving up.

This isn’t just about ending this war. It’s about stopping the next one, ending the occupation and bringing freedom, equality and justice to everyone from the river to the sea. Right now, RSN is one of the only international organizations in the world positioned to stop the war machine from within. And we are being stretched to our limits. We’ve raised 60% of our $30,000 goal. But we are facing exponential growth in need. More reservists. More youth. More calls for help. And more groups asking us to support their refusal. We have the experience. We have the infrastructure. We just need the resources.

The Israeli government is afraid. They are arresting, fining, and jailing public refusers at a level we haven’t seen in decades. But the cracks are already there, and they’re widening. Refusal is not just spreading. It’s becoming contagious.

Let’s keep pushing. Let’s reach our $30,000 goal. Let’s turn this moment into a movement that can’t be stopped.

They are going to jail to end this genocide. We must support them!

Mattan here. I am a refuser, I spent several months in an Israeli prison at the age of 20 for refusing to serve the Israeli occupation, and today I serve as the Executive Director of Refuser Solidarity Network. We are in the midst of an unprecedented refuser wave, with hundreds of soldiers refusing to carry out war crimes in Gaza. The stakes are only rising: the Israeli regime has resorted to expanding its regional war of annihilation to Iran. Refusers are our best chance to end the assaults on Gaza and Iran – refusal waves have ended Israeli attacks against the Palestinian people at least twice in the past: the end of the first Lebanon war and the withdrawal in 2000, and the withdrawal from Gaza in 2005. Refuser Solidarity Network is the only international group dedicated to supporting Israeli refuser movements, and has been for 20 years. We are financing legal aid, press and social media campaigns that amplify their refusal, training and mentorship, and urgently need your support to keep up with the momentum. We achieved 54% of our mid-year goal. Help us reach our goal of $30,000 so we can continue to expand the essential support we provide to refusers to end the genocide today.

In a militarized society like Israel, built on mandatory service, refusal has always been a powerful way to force the government to back down. There can be no occupation with no soldiers. Today, we at Refusal Solidarity Network are aggressively supporting those leading the latest wave of refusal and fighting to bring the genocide to an end. Our ability to support emerging groups of refusers is expanding. We successfully backed several reservists in forming the group Soldiers for Hostages over the last year. However the need to support crucial anti-war initiatives grows even faster, especially as Israel expands its regional assault to include Iran, we need more support from our friends around the world.

Beyond funding for lawyers, for press and social media campaigns, we are helping them to build the necessary infrastructure to organize and build a community of resistance to the genocide in Gaza and imperialist war in Iran. Refusers numbers are currently growing exponentially, and if they continue to grow, they will end this war. Refuser movements have already done so in the past, and can do it again today, but they urgently need your support.

Israeli refusal movements were at the center of putting a stop to Israeli atrocities. This has happened at least twice: in 1982, helping to end the Israel-Lebanon war and in 2002-2005, helping to force Israel’s pullout from Gaza in response to the Second Intifada. Reservists are the backbone of the Israeli military, from ensuring the army’s day-to-day functioning to flying Israel’s warplanes to bomb Gaza. The army cannot carry on with its daily operations without them, which is why refusal is such an effective form of resistance that we must support at all costs.

The most powerful kind of support that our global supporters can offer them right now is long-term, for the years and decades to come. Even small donations are what helps the Israeli refuser movement work towards the long-term, not just to end this genocide but to put a stop to all future wars and the occupation itself. This is our goal and we will achieve it. Support our campaign to raise the money needed to continue our work. If you already donated, let your communities know about our campaign. We truly believe that this unprecedented stage in the struggle against the genocide has the power not only to end the assault on Gaza but open up a new political horizon here. It is a marathon, not a sprint, and Refuser Solidarity Network is increasing our support at unprecedented levels to meet the needs of the anti-war movement, we truly need your help to bring freedom, equality and justice to all.

Breaking: refusing the war with Iran

Mattan here. I am the executive director of RSN, and in 2017, I refused to oppress Palestinians and subsequently spent 110 days in jail. I write to you in the middle of our mid-year campaign in order to address Israel's assault on Iran. In the last couple of weeks, new signs appeared that signals Israel’s inability to carry on the genocide on Gaza for long. More and more people started to refuse and resist the war. The Israeli army did not have enough soldiers to stay in Gaza for long, the majority of Israelis wanted a hostage deal and withdrawal from Gaza, and in politics, the coalition was at a breaking point and started to prepare for an election.

Then Israel attacked Iran… I want to be clear: The new war with Iran has nothing to do with the security and safety of the Israeli people. It is about remobilising Israelis to the army and helping the prime minister to stay in power by avoiding elections. It is about continuing the genocide without resistance from Israelis and the world. All eyes are on the war with Iran while people forget about Gaza.

Our partners on the ground know that. “The goal of the war is to help the government to continue eliminating our hostages and continue with war crimes in Gaza. I am calling to everyone who can to refuse,” said Asaf Yakir, a reserve soldier who refuses to fight in Gaza or Iran and is part of Soldiers for the Hostages. Soldiers for the Hostages publicly declared that their position has not changed: “We refuse to take part in this war.”  Joining them are another 41 soldiers from intelligence and cyber units who recently published a refusal statement. 

The goal of the war is to halt the resistance against the genocide in Gaza.  We will not let the government stop us. We will not take part in this war, we refuse! We will resist until we end the genocide and the occupation, and all regional wars of aggression. The Israeli government has found a base of support among the general public for this new front, even among those that began to oppose the genocide in Gaza. But the reality is more complicated: many people, especially those who oppose the prime minister, see the war as inevitable. This is an oppentunity, fo the long time this new war can make Israeli resiste even more. Right now, we are working hard to shift the general public to resiste the war. This war is not inevitable, it will not make anyone safer, and it is only an extension of the criminal genocide in Gaza. We need to stop the war, both in Gaza and in Iran, for the sake of the Palestinian people and our own futures.

We need you with us more than ever. Help us put a stop to this endless war and genocide, help us to support the Israeli resistance to end the atrocities, the genocide and the occupation! We were already close to putting it to a stop, and we still can. Together we can end it!

I served in this war. What I saw caused me to refuse.

Yuval here. I’m a Gaza War refuser and one of the leaders of Soldiers for the Hostages, a group of Israelis who served in the war and have since refused. Since Israel broke the ceasefire on March 18 and renewed its deadly assault on Gaza, our numbers have grown significantly and we now have more than 230 signatories on our refusal letter. We couldn’t have done it without your support.

Last week's edition of Haaretz Magazine published an op-ed I authored. It’s about what I saw in Gaza, why I refused, and why I think this war is illegitimate and needs to end now. I wrote: “Beyond the consequences of the war for us, Israelis, I watched in pain what was happening in Gaza. Already in the early days of the war, there were thousands of casualties, thousands of destroyed homes, displaced persons, suffering, and pain.” 

I’ve translated the full article and appended it below. I hope you choose to read it. If you do, remember that it was written to influence an Israeli audience.

In solidarity, 

Yuval Green
Soldiers for the Hostages

We will not be silenced

It’s Max from Soldiers for the Hostages. We are a group of hundreds of Israeli soldiers who served in the war on Gaza and have since publicly refused service in it. Our movement has grown and its public profile has increased significantly. Netanyahu’s regime is not happy: One of our members has been jailed for refusing. Another has been summoned to a court martial. A third has been threatened with legal action for an op-ed he wrote, and others have received stiff fines reaching several thousand Israeli Shekels ($1,000+). We will not be silenced and are fighting back, and we need your support.

In recent weeks, as Netanyahu has moved to expand and deepen the assault on Gaza, the army has summoned tens of thousands of reservists. We’ve reacted by ramping up our public outreach activities. More and more soldiers are joining our ranks, refusing to take part in this abomination. Just last week we reached our 300th refuser. Multiple soldiers from our community have appeared on live Israeli television, courageously sharing their personal stories and declaring their refusal to take part in this war.  We now have regular columns in major news outlets, reaching a huge audience with a message of moral clarity and resistance. 

Our voices are shaking the foundations of a brutal system. In one of these columns, our signatory, Eran Tamir, wrote: "It is legitimate to refuse a war that represents our moral low point as a nation, with levels of killing and destruction that just two years ago we couldn’t even have imagined." In response, members of the governing coalition began a campaign to pressure the Attorney General to initiate criminal proceedings against him.

The army has also increased its attacks on us. For the first time, one of our signatories, Daniel Yahalom, has been sent to military prison. On the day of his sentencing he said: "Choosing an unrestrained military option means strengthening Hamas and bringing death to the hostages. I refuse to serve such a cause. Moreover — I have a moral duty to do so." Another signatory has received a summons to a court martial, and there are signs that more are on their way.

Let’s be clear: They want to send us to jail. They want to silence us. But we will not be silenced. We will stand by every soldier who bravely speaks out against Netanyahu’s regime of death.

And for that, we need your support. Your donation will help us provide quality legal aid for refusers, as well helping to fund paid advertising for our public campaign.

The tides are turning. The world is watching. The ICC has issued long ago an arrest warrant for Netanyahu — and the public, in Israel and abroad, understands: this catastrophe must end.

We are building something powerful. A movement of conscience. A future rooted not in destruction, but in dignity and justice — for the good of Israelis and Palestinians alike.

Join us. Support us. Stand with us.

Together, we will stop Netanyahu’s war of destruction against the Palestinian people.

The Israeli regime is afraid of us

Atalya here. It is now effectively semi-illegal in Israel to hold signs bearing the images of Palestinian children and babies in Gaza. Just last week, left-wing Israeli organizers revealed that police only approved an anti-war protest on the condition that demonstrators refrain from displaying photos of Palestinian children or Israeli hostages, and that signs using the word “genocide” would be banned. We are witnessing a serious escalation, from managing dissent to actively suppressing even the most basic forms of public expression. The Israeli regime understands its established order is threatened, and is resorting to its usual tactics: police violence, riot control tactics, ambiguous legal restrictions, and threats of arrest. As RSN’s media coordinator, I spend my days attending actions, protests and documenting both incidents of police violence as well as brave resistance. Through our page Voices Against War, I not only report the news from the ground but paint a picture of the state of the struggle against the genocide. From my work on the ground, it is clear that the Israeli state is escalating all of its tactics in order to stifle dissent. And while these moments stoke fear, they also signal that the government is panicking, resorting to desperate measures. That is why it is imperative that you, << Test First Name >>, support us in any way you can from afar. Right now, we need supporters to ramp up pressure on Israel as it tries to quash any real opposition: we are asking each and everyone of you to put pressure on your governments, wherever you are, to implement an arms embargo on Israel. Sign our global call for an arms embargo now, and send it to your communities.

Showing the most basic forms of care for Palestinian lives has become increasingly outlawed by the Israeli state. It’s not just pictures of Palestinian children, but the very ability to publicly express opposition. Police violence at protests is not new, but is escalating. Just last week, over 20 protestors demonstrating against the genocide were violently arrested in Haifa in a clear message: dissent will not be tolerated.

These latest events closely follow other clear signs that lay bare the political-military establishment’s anxieties over their ability to continue the genocide. Fines for refusers, direct threats from Prime Minister Netanyahu himself against war resisters, and police violence at protests that beg the question: are these riot police, or is this a police riot?

The Israeli political class is hard-pressed as reports pile up of more military reservists refusing to report for duty, and Israelis themselves are starting to ask themselves when this forever war will end. I’ve covered protests and direct actions since the war on Gaza broke out, including protests led by Israelis calling for an arms embargo in their own words. This call has been made here on the ground, and is gaining traction. This is a rare opportunity for action, and why we need you to ramp up external pressure to meet the urgency of this moment. Sign our call for an arms embargo today. 

Soldiers are refusing, and dissent is spreading

Max here. I am a reservist who served in Israel’s assault on Gaza before refusing to continue my service  – to bring the violence to a stop, bring the hostages home, and end the occupation. Ever since my refusal, I have been organizing with Soldiers for Hostages, a group of reservists organizing against the war and publicly refusing service to bring it to a stop. Over the past few weeks, our group has grown faster than we could have imagined, fueled by the criminal return to the assault on Gaza. With the reality of corruption, political motivations of the war, and devastating death and destruction, more and more reservists and ex-soldiers are joining our movement. We are no longer operating at the margins. We’re not just refusing—we're organizing. We are now over 240 soldiers who have publicly declared they refuse to take part in the assaults on Gaza. We are growing and so is the state’s repression against us. Our movement is counting on urgent global support: your donations enable us to continue organizing in the field, bring in new refusers and put a stop to the bloodshed.

We’re breaking into the mainstream. Israel’s public broadcaster aired a piece on us, while its legacy newspaper has published our calls for an end to the war. Refusal has long been kept outside the boundaries of legitimate debate in Israeli society. But we are shifting this line. We feel it every time we show up at a protest in our “Soldiers for Hostages” shirts. The back reads: “One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust wars.” It’s a provocation—and it opens conversations. When people see a soldier in uniform, a reservist, standing behind that message, it creates a dissonance: this is what resistance looks like! At these protests, we hand out flyers with a barcode linking to our letter. People scan it. They read. They sign. They join. That’s how the movement grows.

Many have already joined our call over the last few weeks. A new refusal letter of medical personnel was published, followed by 1000 air force personnel calling for the end of the war. Many unorganised people are declaring their refusal on social media. We are experiencing momentum across all sectors of society.

For the first time, Soldiers for Hostages is building a team dedicated solely to integrating new reservists who have never refused in such a manner. But it’s not just about adding names to our public letter: it’s about weaving a support network strong enough to hold the weight of conscience, grief, and resistance. Our goal is not just to gather reservists who will publicly threaten refusal, but to help them become activists in their own right, helping us organize more people and become a force that can actually stop this war. Some volunteers help onboard new members, others help with campaigning. A few of our signatories—mental health professionals—are organizing support circles for those of us struggling with the isolation that comes from refusing. You lose the community you once had in the military, you’re seen as a traitor by the people you once stood beside. But in this movement, we are building a new community to be a part of.

We are not ‘traditional’ refusers. We are soldiers. We served. We all returned from reserve duty more disillusioned than ever, having been forced to take part in a war with no real goal other than political survival of the Netanyahu regime, continuation of the occupation and destruction of the Palestinians. This comes at the expense of our brothers and sisters still being held hostage by Hamas for over 1.5 years.

But this work doesn’t stop if the war ends tomorrow. We are not just resisting the war. We are building something larger: We are building a movement to fight for accountability, for responsible and just policy, an end to the occupation and to endless wars, and a commitment to the sanctity of the lives of everyone

The response to our activism has been swift. Police violence. Intimidation. I myself was beaten at a protest by the police because of our work. They escalated immediately—out for revenge, not order. Their aggression tells us something important: they see this movement as a threat. Reservists who've refused also began to receive fines from the army, trying to scare us and demoralise. But we are showing new and potential refusers everywhere that we are here for them, and we are ready to organize with them. We will cover the fines and provide them with legal support. The government should be scared of us. Something is changing. People are listening. The cracks are widening, and we are not backing down.

We need your help. We need your help to continue growing and organizing and to show any refuser that they should not be scared to resist, we have their backs. Please consider donating if you can. Together we can end this war.

Israel jails 18-year-old refuser

Mattan here. I am the executive director of Refuser Solidarity Network and a refuser who spent 110 days in prison. Today I would like to update you about a new refuser who is currently in prison. Last month, Israel imprisoned 18-year-old activist Ella Keidar for refusing to join the Israeli military in opposition to its genocide. We are standing in solidarity with Ella’s decision, with all of its bravery and of course hardship. Ella wrote a moving public letter addressed to the world about her journey towards refusal as a journey home: a journey towards oneself, one’s humanity and one’s right to demand another world. We are attaching her letter to the world and call on our supporters to send her support letters and to share it widely. 

I know from my own time in prison how meaningful were these letters of support from people around the world.

My name is Ella Keidar Greenberg. I was raised to be a man and a soldier. At the age of 14, I came out as a trans woman and rejected society’s dictation of gender. Now, at the age of 18, I am refusing to enlist, and rejecting society’s militaristic dictation. 

Shortly after coming out, I found the communist manifesto in my grandmother’s library. I spent the next two years reading books about political philosophy and Marxist theory. Through reading, I developed a deeper understanding of the bloody history and present of the place I live in. With the protest movement against the judicial coup, a path manifested for me to convert the frustration I felt into hope and political action.

I quickly joined the struggle against the occupation as an activist and organizer. First in the anti-occupation bloc and the weekly protests in Kaplan Street, and later in the Mesarvot Network, in the Communist Youth Union, in Hadash (DFPE) and in the Communist Party. Since then, activism has turned into the center of my life. 

I organized a mass protest against transphobic propaganda, protested with Palestinian activists against land theft as soldiers shot stun grenades and rubber bullets at us, blocked roads, got injured by cops and from violent evictions by border police, organized a mass refusal campaign under Youth Against Dictatorship, did protective presence and joined co-resistance in Masafer Yatta, and now – I am refusing.

The main reason for this act, is that my country is committing a genocide n Gaza. Hundreds of thousands have been killed in bombings, intentional destruction of infrastructure, starvation, and indiscriminate fire. Millions were torn from their homes, and continue to exist in a state of displacement since. This has been the daily reality in Gaza for the past 18 months. All for a war that was supposedly meant to bring the hostages back home, but in practice, abandons them. The war of annihilation has not passed over the West Bank, with escalating settler violence, supported more than ever by the army.

Dozens of villages, ethnically cleansed as if they never even existed, and entire neighborhoods destroyed and depopulated as part of the destructive operation in Jenin and Tulkarm. Now that the government has returned to its campaign of destruction in Gaza, this situation is expected to continue to worsen.

Inside Israel we are witnessing police political persecution of left-wing activists and Palestinians on scales not seen since the period of military rule between 1948-1966, arrests over statements on social media, protests and civil organizing. There is an intentional systematic neglect of Arab society to murderous organized crime, 24 living hostages still waiting to return to their families, a horrific economic crisis that is affecting working people first and foremost, a 65% increase in domestic violence that is tied to the 40% rise in civilian firearms. Additionally, we have seen a surge in violence against the queer community and a simultaneous cut of its governmental budgets, and that same judicial coup we blocked roads against just moments ago, is now being rapidly legislated under our noses. 

These are not processes happening separately from the genocide in Gaza. These systems are not just the soldier standing at the checkpoint, the boss that pays too little, or the people outlawing our gender and medical autonomy, but also the education into these institutions, the sum of all social mechanisms that prime us into obedient subjects of the system. This logic is what trans people, like refuseniks, undermine. That’s why we’re so scary, because the existing system and its reproduction is insured by us – the people, staying disciplined and obedient.

But obedience brings us nothing but oblivion. The decision makers of the military and government clarify again and again that they have no interest in the stability of the ceasefire agreement, in our rights, or in the return of the hostages. Their interest in us is limited to our function as canon fodder for the extermination and expansion industry.

Dark regimes and the horrors they enforce don’t collapse by the citizens obeying the law and doing what we’re told, hoping someone upstairs will come to their senses and understand this has to stop. Faced with the reality of mass extermination, of systematic neglect, of trampling on rights, of war – the imperative is refusal. Don’t stay complacent: gather, organize, resist. In 40 years, when our grandchildren ask us what we did during the Gaza genocide, during the collapse of the old order, if we gave up or if we put up a fight, how will you rather answer?

I know what I’ll answer: that I chose to resist, this is why I am refusing.

We are on the brink of mass refusal

The Israeli government has broken the ceasefire and resumed its brutal bombing campaign in Gaza. Bombs are falling again, more lives are being lost, and the forever war is marching on. But this genocide is not inevitable. The government’s decision to dive back into its cruel campaign comes in direct opposition to wishes of the hostage families, who are furious. The streets are flooding with protesters calling for a stop to the war and a return to the ceasefire. The police are violently attacking anyone opposing the war. “Refuse!” – generally a taboo call in Israeli society – is quickly making its way into everyday speech. Reservists being called up right now are facing a contradictory moment: the choice is between the lives of the Israeli hostages and the Palestinians of Gaza on one hand, and endless war with no end on the other. Stories of reservists refusing to resume their service – including those serving in the air force and intelligence – are being widely reported in the Israeli media. Now more than ever, the time is ripe for more people to join the refuser movement, and we need your support to organize every reservist sitting on the fence into a coherent front: stop the genocide now!

We are on the brink of mass refusal. Our organizers on the ground are working to bring in more potential refusers to our movement, and we are counting on our supporters across the world to continue funding this work and even expand it. We need to seize the moment now, and fast, in order to put a stop to the killing of hundreds of Palestinians daily. More soldiers are questioning, resisting, and refusing to take part in war crimes. But they cannot do this alone.
 

Your donations make our work possible. Your support will help us to maximise the potential of this turning point and end the genocide. We cannot stress this enough. Our field organizing is a direct result of your backing. Right now, we need our organizers in the streets and on the phone, talking to protesters and reservists who are disillusioned with the government’s decision to break the ceasefire and sacrifice the hostages while murdering dozens of children in their sleep everyday. Join our efforts by donating today. Encourage your friends to match your support if possible.

 The Israeli government has made its choice. Now we must make ours. Stand with those resisting from within. Stand against genocide. Stand for a real future, not more war.