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We are religious leaders, nonprofits, and activists, nurses, doctors, dads, teachers and mothers united in this moment of moral reckoning to affirm the sanctity of all human life. https://www.change.org/p/save-children-s-lives-duluth-demands-a-ceasefire-now

We call on the  Duluth City Council  to save  Palestinian and Israeli Children’s lives by demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. 

We unequivocally condemn attacks on all innocent civilians, including the October 7th Hamas-led attacks in Israel, which killed 1200 Israelis and saw 240 people taken hostage. We condemn the Israeli Army’s siege and indiscriminate bombardment of Gaza, where U.S.-made weapons have contributed to the loss of more than 25,105 Palestinian lives  and left more than 62,681wounded or dying without hospitals to stop the bleeding. 

We as Duluthians are standing up to Protect innocent childrens lives.

Children make up over 47% of the population of Gaza according to UNICEF.

“With every passing day, children and families in the Gaza Strip face increased risk of death from the sky, disease from lack of safe water, and deprivation from lack of food. And for the two remaining Israeli children still held hostage in Gaza, their nightmare that began on 7 October continues.”

It is our moral obligation to leverage our collective power to end the escalation of death and ongoing humanitarian crises. We have three demands.

We demand an immediate, permanent ceasefire and the immediate release of all Israeli and Palestinian hostages. 

United in shared humanity, we collectively urge the Duluth City Council  to leverage its power to end the genocide in Gaza. A ceasefire is just the beginning. The staggering civilian casualties and rising global hate crimes highlight a fundamental truth: there is no military resolution to this invasion. We understand the safety and security of Israelis and Palestinians to be inextricably intertwined, a safety predicated on a long-term diplomatic solution. Further, we condemn weaponization of this violence to justify anti-semetic and anti-Arab, especially anti-Palestinian, attacks and abuse and  intimidation across Duluth and  the nation. 

We stand on our faiths, our conscience and human and civic responsibility to speak up for children and preserve the sanctity of human life here in Duluth and across the world in Gaza. In the words of Rev. Jesse Jackson in Lebanon in 1979, “we do not seek to exchange sufferers but rather to stop suffering.”  

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