Lift the Siege on Gaza

Click here to watch the new video: Malak Mattar Reminds Us: Gaza Is Palestine

The night of May 16, 2021 altered the lives of three Palestinian families of Gaza City’s Wahda Street forever. Members of four generations of the Kawlak family were killed, 22 people from one family alone. They included 6-month old Qusai, his parents, his grandfather, and his great-grandparents. That same night on Wahda Street, Suzy Eshkuntana, 6, lost her mother and four siblings.

Tragically, the Al-Kawlak, Ekshkuntana, and Abu Al-Ouf families are not the only families in Gaza that are suffering. The scale of horror that families in Gaza face daily is innumerable and unspeakable.

Join us and millions globally demanding Congress excercise its full power & ability to stop funding Israel, impose sanctions, and end the cyclical violence that destroys Palestinian life.

Together, we can say to the survivors of the countless bombings in Gaza: the U.S. does not act in our name. We demand an end to the flow of weapons to Israel’s apartheid regime.

More than 80% of the Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip are from towns and villages just across the militarized border. From Gaza’s rooftops, Palestinians can see their grandparents’ and parents’ homes in Isdoud, Asqlan and other Palestinian towns ethnically cleansed by Israeli forces in 1948. Although international law decrees that they should be home in a free Palestine, the people of Gaza are uniquely subject to bombings, restricted movement, and mass murder at the hands of Israel and its military support from the U.S.

Click here to watch the new video: Malak Mattar Reminds Us: Gaza Is Palestine

We believe that Israel's access to U.S. made bombs, fighter planes, and billions in military funding is not inevitable.

Massive global demonstrations in solidarity with the resistance struggle in occupied Palestine are changing the tides towards liberation. Last year, unprecedented support for Palestinian life swept the mainstream media, our progressive movements, and even the halls of Congress. For the first time ever, human rights organizations are universally naming Israel's practice of apartheid, and members of Congress are demanding that U.S. law take Israel's war crimes seriously and limit the flow of tax-payer dollars to its military.

Let’s continue building upon this momentum: keep the stories of Palestinian families decimated by Israeli state violence in the public eye, shorten the distance between people in the U.S. and Gaza, and awaken the people power neccessary to hold Israel and its supporters accountable.

The goal is not perpetual resilience, perpetual rebuilding after violence. The goal is freedom. Palestinians in Gaza will be free. Free to travel. Free to study. Free to work. Free to live. Free to start a family without the fear they will be taken. Free to pursue dreams. Free to live.

Join us. Demand Congress stop funding the blockade and attacks on Gaza.

Gaza Is Palestine is a Palestinian-led effort from Adalah Justice Project and MPower Change building upon the historic global movement to end Israeli occupation, colonization, and violence that ignited with new life in spring 2021

Stop the Bombs: Lift the Siege on Gaza

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Dear [recipient position will go here]  [recipient name will go here],

I am one millions of people in the U.S. and around the globe to declaring that the siege of Gaza must end.

I am writing to you as a member of Congress to ask you to heed the call of the grassroots and end the transfer of U.S. weapons and funding to Israel. The Palestinians of Gaza deserve to live in freedom, safe from the cycles of undeterred Israeli violence.  I call on you to refuse U.S. complicity in the continued siege of Gaza.

The Israeli regime used U.S.-manufactured bombs, some purchased with U.S. taxpayer dollars, to commit unspeakable violence, murdering 260 Palestinian people, wiping out 22 members of the Kawlak family across four generations in one night, and bombing critically needed medical infrastructure as well as the buildings of Al Jazeera and AP journalists who were amplifying Palestinian stories.

The New York Times has reported extensively on this and Human Rights Watch concluded that Israel committed war crimes by bombing civilian residential buildings in Gaza using U.S. made bombs.

The Palestinian people in Gaza have experienced a constant state of trauma under these attacks. Any 13-year old child in Gaza has now lived through four major assaults and hundreds of Israel’s relentless bombings that are so often unnoticed by the world.

Reporting by eyewitness accounts, confirmed by the New York Times and Human Rights Watch, indicate that U.S. made weapons were used by Israel in the May assault on Gaza. Even as large protests were erupting across cities in the United States during the May assault on Gaza, Congress and the Biden administration approved a sale of $735 million in more bombs, manufactured by Boeing in its St. Charles, Missouri factory, to Israel.

Do your part to heed the urgent call of Palestinians dealing with unimaginable grief — end the transfer of U.S. weapons and funding to Israel.

Once again, the Palestinians of Gaza deserve to live in freedom, safe from the cycles of undeterred Israeli violence.

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