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who are sending this message to Congress.
URGE CONGRESS TO:
(1) RESTORE HUMANITARIAN AID FOR PALESTINIANS
AND
(2) PUSH ISRAEL TO END THE BLOCKADE OF GAZA
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Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank are among the most vulnerable populations in the world, during the global COVID-19 pandemic.
They are coping with a harsh occupation regime and brutal blockade, while they try to stay safe from the coronavirus.
Communities under lockdown; travel between West Bank cities and towns is banned...
Settlers are exploiting the lockdown to steal more land and attack Palestinians in their homes...
Palestinian prisoners living in dangerous conditions are now being cut off from the world....
Soldiers are attacking and arresting dozens, including children...
Villages are harrassed, families evicted, and homes destroyed, during a pandemic!!
And perhaps most alarming...
Palestinians have a severe lack of essential medicines, medical equipment, and hospital beds in the West Bank and, most of all, in Gaza.
(Above: The World Health Organization data on Gaza paints a clear picture of the dismal health care conditions for Gaza: see this series of graphics from Visualizing Palestine)
Gaza is home to about 2 million people packed into a tiny area of 141 square miles and living under a brutal Israeli blockade for 14 years. Israel's blockade has deprived them of so much that is essential for life, the UN predicted that Gaza would be "unlivable" by this year, 2020 - and many say that it truly is.
But Gazans have been imprisoned here for many years; almost no one can get permission to leave.
So they have no choice but to live in what most would call "unlivable" conditions.
Gaza has access to 60 respirators, 2,800 hospital beds, and very few COVID-19 tests - for 2 million people. The way things stand now, the Ministry of Health in Gaza has said they can care for only 100 critical cases.
Health officials are warning that - under the Israeli blockade - containing and treating the coronavirus in Gaza will be nearly impossible.
CHECK THESE LISTS & ADD A THANK YOU NOTE!
In February and March, some members of Congress have sent good letters to the State Department, calling for humanitarian aid to be provided for Palestinians.
Is your Representative or one of your Senators in these lists below?
Below the message to legislators that we have prepared (scroll down this page to see that), you could ADD A PERSONAL NOTE. Something like: "Thank you for the letter you sent to the State Dept. to help the Palestinian people!"
Pocan/Dingell Letter
See the report in The Hill
THE REPRESENTIVES WHO SIGNED -
listed by STATE in alphabetical order:
ARIZONA
Ruben Gallego (D-AZ, 7th)
Raúl Grijalva (D-AZ, 3rd)
CALIFORNIA
Jackie Speier (D-CA, 14th)
Judy Chu (D-CA, 27th)
Danny K. Davis (D-CA, 53rd)
Mark DeSaulnier (D-CA, 11th)
Jared Huffman (D-CA, 2nd)
Barbara Lee (D-CA, 13th)
GEORGIA
Hank Johnson, Jr. (D-GA, 4th)
ILLINOIS
Chuy García (D-IL, 4th)
Bobby L. Rush (D-IL, 1st)
Jan Schakowsky (D-IL, 9th)
INDIANA
André Carson (D-IN, 7th)
MAINE
Chellie Pingree (D-ME, 1st)
MASSACHUSETTS
James McGovern (D-MA, 2nd)
MICHIGAN
Dan Kildee (D-MI, 5th)
Rashida Tlaib (D-MI, 13th)
Debbie Dingell (D-MI, 12th)
MINNESOTA
Betty McCollum (D-MN, 4th)
Ilhan Omar (D-MN, 5th)
NEW JERSEY
Donald Payne Jr. (D-NJ, 10th)
NEW MEXICO
Deb Haaland (D-NM, 1st)
NEW YORK
Paul Tonko (D-NY, 20th)
NORTH CAROLINA
David E. Price (D-NC, 4th)
OREGON
Earl Blumenauer (D-OR, 3rd)
Suzanne Bonamici (D-OR, 1st)
Peter A. Defazio (D-OR, 4th)
TEXAS - Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-TX, 30th)
VERMONT
Peter Welch (D-VT)
VIRGINIA
Don Beyer (D-VI, 8th District)
WASHINGTON
Pramila Jayapal (D-WA, 7th)
WISCONSIN
Gwen S. Moore (D-WI, 4th)
Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd)
Warren/Van Hollen Letter - March 2020 See the Mondoweiss story
THE SENATORS WHO SIGNED:
Tom Carper (D-Delaware)
Chris Van Hollen (D-Maryland)
Elizabeth Warren (D-Massuchusetts)
Tom Udall (D-New Mexico)
Sherrod Brown (D-Ohio)
Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon)
Patrick Leahy (D-Vermont)
Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)
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