Select a subject line, or write your own: Extreme Weather in Gaza Threatens Survival of Over a Million Displaced Palestinians / We Must Recognise a Palestinian State to Protect Gaza / Israel is Still Blocking Aid into Gaza: Act Now
Dear [Elected Official’s Name],
Gaza is in ruins. While a so-called ceasefire is in place (which Israel violates daily), Palestinians are suffering through freezing temperatures, heavy rain, strong winds, and a severe lack of sanitation, food, water, and healthcare. Despite Israel’s claim that 600 aid trucks would enter Gaza daily, it continues to block essential supplies, including temporary shelters.
Humanitarian groups are pleading for shelter materials to be allowed in, warning that wet winter conditions now pose the most urgent crisis in Gaza. We must ensure essential aid and shelter reaches everyone in Gaza.
Israel has intentionally rendered Gaza uninhabitable, a strategic move to dispel Palestinians from their land. This intention has now been repeated by Donald Trump, whose plan to ethnically cleanse and occupy Gaza has rightfully received condemnation. However, if we recognise displacement without the right of return is wrong for Trump to enact, then we must also recognise that the same actions by Israel have been too.
Condemnation of Trump’s plans without a commitment to recognise a sovereign Palestinian state and the right of return for the displaced are just empty words.
You have a duty to humanity to ensure accountability for these crimes and to uphold human rights for all. This includes ensuring unrestricted access for humanitarian aid and essential shelters into Gaza, and recognising a Palestinian state to affirm the inalienable rights of Palestinians to self-determination, preventing threats of continued or new occupations.
We must suspend all relations with Israel, and impose sanctions to pay for the rebuilding of Gaza. A full arms embargo will ensure weapons manufactured in our country will not contribute to further bloodshed, nor uphold Israel’s system of apartheid (as concluded by the ICJ).
Sanctions against other states have proven effective in halting egregious human rights abuses; they must be applied here. A two-way trade embargo, and an end to all diplomatic relations with the state on trial for genocide and whose leaders are wanted war criminals at the ICC is the bare minimum.
This is a call for international law to be upheld and basic human rights for all to be protected.
Your constituent,
[Full Name]
[Full Address]
