Demand Ceasefire NOW | Diana Oestreich

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We are religious leaders, nonprofits, and activists, nurses, doctors, dads, teachers and mothers united in this moment of moral reckoning to affirm the sanctity of all human life. https://www.change.org/p/save-children-s-lives-duluth-demands-a-ceasefire-now

We call on the Duluth City Council to save Palestinian and Israeli Children’s lives by demanding a ceasefire in Gaza.

We unequivocally condemn attacks on all innocent civilians, including the October 7th Hamas-led attacks in Israel, which killed 1200 Israelis and saw 240 people taken hostage. We condemn the Israeli Army’s siege and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza, where U.S.-made weapons have contributed to the loss of more than 25,105 Palestinian lives and left more than 62,681wounded or dying without hospitals to stop the bleeding.

Children are experiencing the suffering and consequences from decisions made by Adults. We cannot allow them to suffer for the horrific decisions they did not make.

We as Duluthians are standing up to Protect innocent childrens lives.

Children make up over 47% of the population of Gaza according to UNICEF.
Its estimated 3 children are being killed every day by the Israeli Army.
Bombs, disease and starvation in addition to having their parents killed is the triple threat facing them according to UNICEF every day we allow this to continue
Two abducted Israeli children must be unconditionally and safely released.

“With every passing day, children and families in the Gaza Strip face increased risk of death from the sky, disease from lack of safe water, and deprivation from lack of food. And for the two remaining Israeli children still held hostage in Gaza, their nightmare that began on 7 October continues.”

It is our moral obligation to leverage our collective power to end the escalation of death and ongoing humanitarian crises. We have three demands.

We demand an immediate, permanent ceasefire and the immediate release of all Israeli and Palestinian hostages.
We urge the Duluth City Council and US to facilitate unimpeded UN-supervised humanitarian aid in Gaza. This includes but is not limited to the immediate delivery of lifesaving aid, the reconstruction, restabilization, and return of Palestinians displaced from their homes and neighborhoods.
We urge the Duluth City Council and the US to condition funding to Israel on its adherence to humanitarian law just as is required for every other nation that receives our citizens tax dollars through US aid and funding.

United in shared humanity, we collectively urge the Duluth City Council to leverage its power to end the genocide in Gaza. A ceasefire is just the beginning. The staggering civilian casualties and rising global hate crimes highlight a fundamental truth: there is no military resolution to this invasion. We understand the safety and security of Israelis and Palestinians to be inextricably intertwined, a safety predicated on a long-term diplomatic solution. Further, we condemn weaponization of this violence to justify anti-semetic and anti-Arab, especially anti-Palestinian, attacks and abuse and intimidation across Duluth and the nation.

We stand on our faiths, our conscience and human and civic responsibility to speak up for children and preserve the sanctity of human life here in Duluth and across the world in Gaza. In the words of Rev. Jesse Jackson in Lebanon in 1979, “we do not seek to exchange sufferers but rather to stop suffering.”

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