Dear friends,
Many thanks to the hundreds of you who joined the campaign against Israel’s starvation of Gaza, and sent us photos of yourselves holding signs. We have shared your powerful images on social media and sent them to politicians.
Will you now take the next step with us, and write to your MP demanding urgent government action on Israel’s forced starvation and destruction of Gaza?
For nearly three months we have been witnessing, in real time, Israel’s deliberate starvation of an entire civilian population — over two million Palestinians in Gaza — as a weapon of war. As the UN has confirmed, we have now reached the ‘cruelest stage’ of Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Israel has now established a dystopian system of militarised aid delivery creating concentration ‘zones’, with horrific reports coming in of detentions, and kidnappings of Palestinians seeking aid.
Due to Israel’s blockade of humanitarian aid and life saving supplies, almost half a million people are experiencing catastrophic levels of hunger, the most severe classification. Hospitals have run out of blood and supplies, children are ‘going to bed starving‘, and dozens of children have already died of malnutrition. More than 3,000 aid trucks and 116,000 metric tonnes of food sit ready and waiting to enter Gaza — obstructed solely by Israel.
Momentum for concrete government action is building. In the last 24 hours, thousands of Australian artists and performers, and Australian doctors, have signed open letters urgently calling for the government to exert stronger diplomatic pressure to unconditionally lift the blockade on Gaza.
We call on you to join us in pressuring the Australian government to act now — to impose sanctions on Israeli officials responsible for the blockade and bombardments, and apply all available pressure for Israel to immediately and unconditionally lift the blockade and comply with international law. The government must urgently meet the unified civil society call to join the humanitarian convoy and accompany the aid trucks waiting to enter Gaza.
Will you write to your MP today and tell them to take concrete action against Israel to stop its deliberate starvation and ongoing genocide in Gaza?
You can find the name of your MP here and find their contacts via this link. (Or, if they are a new MP, use ‘firstname.lastname.MP@aph.gov.au’.) You are welcome to adapt our letter to Foreign Minister Penny Wong.
In solidarity,