Please contact your Congress members and/or Senators to urge them to use their power to bring a stop to Israel’s inhumane pressure on the civilians of Gaza. (This call to action is from the Response Network of the Palestine Solidarity Committee — Seattle)
Gaza under extreme pressure, seige
We are sending you this alert to ask you to take action with regard to the deepening humanitarian crisis in Gaza. In recent weeks Israel has intensified its ongoing punitive campaign and blockade against the population of Gaza by cutting off fuel supplies, and by daily bombing of the territory, resulting in the deaths of dozens of civilians. The cutoffs have created a dire situation, with severe shortages of food, medicine, and other essentials. With Gaza’s only power plant in danger of being shut off, hospitals are working in the dark and without crucial supplies, forced to decide whose life to save, and whose to sacrifice. Israel’s treatment of Gaza amounts to collective punishment on the scale of a crime against humanity.