🇵🇸 #ArtIsAWeapon #CeasefireNow Image and caption reposted from @shirien.creates As of today, over 13,000 #Palestinians have been killed in #Gaza, including 5,500 children, since October 7th. This morning, another hospital in Gaza was bombed by Israeli forces, killing a dozen more Palestinians. Those killed and targeted in Israel’s airstrikes on Gaza’s hospitals have been the most vulnerable: newborns, pregnant women, cancer patients, elders, and disabled Palestinians. All of these people would be alive today had there been a ceasefire yesterday.
For 2 weeks, the Biden admin has been saying that they want to work towards a “humanitarian pause” in which there will be a short time frame in which the bombing of Gaza subsides to allow civilians to find safety. The Israeli govt has not agreed and even if they did, it is not enough when hospitals and facilities cannot function due to the blockaded flow of water, electricity, medications, and fuel, and the continued destruction of essential infrastructure.
A humanitarian pause is not enough as we are witnessing the televised suffering of premature babies who had to be taken off incubators that could not be kept running due to lack of electricity. Tens of thousands of Palestinian women are pregnant and about to give birth, and are in grave danger of staggering numbers of maternal and infant mortality in coming weeks.
While the Biden administration refuses to call for a ceasefire, the masses across the country are rising up to demand not only a ceasefire, but the end of the siege on Gaza and a #FreePalestine. @coribush’s ceasefire bill went from 13 to 40 signers because of the pressure that our representatives are feeling from their constituents. From the Bay Bridge to Chicago’s Lake Shore Drive, the people are shutting it down. Mass boycotts are impacting corporations that support Israel’s ethnic cleansing. The people have made it clear: no more business as usual.
Continue calling and writing your reps. Keep hitting the streets, boycotting, and disrupting the comforts of our complicit society. Check out ceasefiretoday.com for action items. Your acts of solidarity make a difference. May we continue to rise up...
Image 2 & caption reposted from @ernestoyerena NO GENOCIDE IN GAZA! CEASEFIRE NOW! FREE PALESTINE! Download file for free and print at home to make your own posters for any protest or demonstration you plan on going to. Link in bio to download file. Thanks -e #freepalestine #freegaza
