1. United States
2. Conn.
3. Letter

Seventy-seven years ago, over 750,000 Palestinians were forced from their homes. Entire communities were destroyed. That was the Nakba—“the catastrophe.” But it didn’t end in 1948. It’s still happening. Right now, live-streamed day and night for all to witness. Millions of Palestinians are still displaced. And in Gaza, things are at a breaking point. For over two months, people there have been trapped under a total blockade. Food and water are being deliberately denied—this is collective punishment. This is starvation as a weapon of war. This deliberate starvation of the people of Palestine, which they are experiencing along with over 18 months of air strikes, attacks on schools, hospitals, and religious institutions, thousands of lives lost and families displaced again and again, and complete destruction, is a war crime. And it’s happening with U.S. weapons and U.S. support. People are dying—of hunger, of airstrikes, of neglect—and it’s preventable. I’m asking you to do everything in your power to stop this: * Push for the immediate opening of Gaza’s borders so food and aid can reach people. * Support an arms embargo on Israel and stop US complicity in these crimes. This is about human lives. This is a moral obligation! We can’t wait. Please—stand on the right side of history and act now.