(Bagnolet, December 2, 2025) On the first of December, the Israeli occupation forces raided the offices of La Via Campesina’s member organization in Ramallah and Hebron. Military units have sealed off the entire area, blocking all roads leading to the offices and preventing any movement toward the sites.
The forces have detained our members inside the buildings, subjecting them to harsh and humiliating treatment, while conducting violent searches throughout the premises. Several of the members have been arrested and are now detained.
The raid included the destruction and confiscation of all office contents, including computers, hard drives, administrative files, financial documents, and logistical equipment. Soldiers have also deliberately destroyed office furniture, smashed doors, and damaged equipment as part of a systematic attempt to cripple the organization’s operations and silence its work with Palestinian farming communities.
The raid targeted specifically infrastructures of the Palestinian seeds bank in Hebron, destroying seed stocks that represent Palestine’s plant genetic heritage.
Our member organisation operates in full accordance with international law ; its primary role is to support farmers in Palestine. This attack comes amid a broader escalation across the West Bank, where Israeli forces have intensified actions against Palestinian civil society organizations and agricultural institutions. Farmers, who take care of their land and territory, have been systematically targeted in recent months by settlers and Israeli occupation forces. These attacks against a peasant organisation aim to destroy food sovereignty and contribute to the genocidal enterprise against the Palestinian people.
We call upon all our member organisations and allies to contact their respective foreign ministries in order to exert pressure on the Israeli government to secure the release of all detainees.
We urge governments to:
- Call for the immediate and unconditional release of all detained members of La Via Campesina in Palestine and allied agricultural workers;
- Seek assurances that they will not be subject to ill-treatment, coercion, or further intimidation;
- Request an independent investigation into the raid on their offices and the confiscation or destruction of materials; and
- Communicate clearly, through diplomatic channels, that repression of lawful civil society organisations is unacceptable.
We call on all peasants’ organizations, social movements and allies worldwide to condemn firmly this attack and the imprisonment of peasant leaders and our members of a farmers organization.
La Via Campesina stands firmly in solidarity with Palestinian farmers. This attack against one of our member will only strenghten our commitment towards the self-determination and the liberation of Palestinian people.