- United States
- Letter
End Military Assistance to Israel
To: V.P. Harris
From: A constituent in Staunton, VA
August 20
I urge you to end all U.S. military assistance to Israel, which enables the oppression and violence against Palestinians. Since the start of this year, a t least 177 Palestinians, including 40 children, have been killed by the Israeli military. t half of 2023. es in 2005. Thousands were displaced from the Jenin refugee camp. Settler violence against Palestinians is rising, with over 450 attacks in just the firs The recent attacks on Jenin resulted in the highest Palestinian death toll from a single operation in the West Bank since the UN began recording casualti military blockade has severely restricted travel, trade, and access to healthcare, damaging infrastructure and depleting basic medicine stocks for the 2 Israel's demolitions of Palestinian homes, schools, and infrastructure in the West Bank and Jerusalem are forcibly displacing more families. In Gaza, the million residents. Continued U.S. military aid to Israel enables these human rights violations and obstructs prospects for a just peace. Ending this assistance will pressur e Israel to uphold international law and stop the oppression of Palestinians.