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More than 50 Democratic National Committee employees have signed an open letter to their leadership, calling on them to urge President Joe Biden to seek a cease-fire in Israel’s escalating war against Hamas.
“With the number of civilian deaths growing rapidly each day, we must be clear: the Israeli government’s unrelenting military bombardment and blockading of vital supplies entering Gaza must end,” the letter reads.on Thursday, staff members at the State Department have submitted at least two formal expressions of dissent through a specially designed “dissent channel” urging the U.S. to do more to end the war.
On Oct. 7, Hamas launched a vicious surprise attack on targets in Israel that killed at least 1,400 people, the majority of them civilians. The group also took more than 200 hostages during the assault.Israel has since engaged in a U.S.-backed aerial bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza that has prompted an unprecedented humanitarian crisis in the region, which has some 2 million civilian residents.
“With the number of civilian deaths growing rapidly each day, we must be clear: the Israeli government’s unrelenting military bombardment and blockading of vital supplies entering Gaza must end.”Many aid groups and activist organizations say a humanitarian pause, or even a series of them, would be insufficient given the scale of the suffering — and they worry it would only allow Israel to be more aggressive in its actions in Gaza afterward.
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