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Do Your Legal Duty to Prevent Genocide Under the Geneva Convention

To: Sen. Padilla, Rep. Matsui, Sen. Schiff

From: A verified voter in Elk Grove, CA

September 16, 2025

The United Nations Commission of Inquiry has found that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, and that the responsibility lies with Netanyahu, Herzog, and Gallant and the IOF. The UN has called on all states to act in response to the genocide in Gaza. It is the world’s legal duty, the United States legal duty, to prevent genocide under the Geneva Convention. On September 9, 2025, Israel dropped forced displacement leaflets over the heads of the 1 million Palestinians still living in Gaza City. The leaflets ordered every resident to leave and move south to al-Mawasi—an area already overcrowded and still deadly under Israel’s bombing campaign. Gaza City is in stage 5 famine, engineered by Israel through its blockade. For countless families, movement south is simply not possible. In the past week alone, Israel has destroyed 30 multi-story buildings in Gaza City, bombed tent camps, a university, and school shelters. Israel has offered no evidence that Hamas was operating from these buildings. I urge you to: -Impose full, comprehensive sanctions on Israel. -Enforce a complete two-way trade embargo, ending all import and export activity. -Immediately end all arms sales and intelligence cooperation. -Ensure unimpeded access for aid and humanitarian organisations, and suspend GHF’s deadly “aid” sites.

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