This graphic from Visualizing Palestine is all too accurate and damning. Contrasting the vast US miliary funding to Israel for weapons against Gaza, while at the same time sending small amounts of humanitarian aid to Gaza and Lebanon.
The increasing chaos and dire humanitarian conditions in Gaza are reaching the final stages as hundreds of children in Gaza starve to death. Is this the only way this travesty ends, when all the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank have been killed by bombs, starvation, dehydration, disease or exposure?
A humanitarian response I’ve been writing about is the attempt of the small Freedom Flotilla vessel, the Madleen, to break Israel’s maritime blockade, to get humanitarian aid to Gaza. (See: https://unflinching.blog/?s=madleen)
1. A perilous journey
The 2010 Mavi Marmara incident, during which Israeli commandos boarded a Turkish-flagged vessel leading to the deaths of nine activists (a tenth died later from injuries), remains a stark reminder of the potential for lethal force and the ensuing intense international condemnation.
Block the Bombs
2. Block the Bombs to Israel
Since the beginning of Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza in October 2023, the US has given more than $30 billion in taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel to enable its atrocities.
The US is not only complicit in Israel’s killing of at least 54,000 Palestinians–our weapons make us partners in crime.
As Israel escalates its genocidal violence by killing and starving Palestinians, and by driving them from their homes, it’s time to Block the Bombs!
On June 5, Representatives Delia Ramirez, Sara Jacobs, Pramila Jayapal, and Mark Pocan, along with 18 colleagues, publicly announced the introduction of a historic bill in Congress to do just that.
It’s extremely important that Members of Congress hear from their constituents right now that they oppose giving more weapons to Israel! Write your Representative and ask them to cosponsor H.R.3565, the Block the Bombs Act.
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/block-the-bombs
You can see the complete Infographic I made from these sources here:
https://g.co/gemini/share/3b8ec0b616ff
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