Today from Jewish Voice for Peace: 500 Jewish New Yorkers and allies just held an emergency sit-in at the Statue of Liberty to call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. We took over the island. We stopped business as usual. We were joined by rabbis, electeds, celebrities, descendants of Holocaust survivors, and children. (Joined again by Stephanie Rugoff and many other friends of World Can’t Wait).
Palestine: Gaza Death Toll Nears 10,000—Every 10 Minutes a Child is Killed – U.S. Steps Up Military Support—While Claiming to Care About Civilians
The horror continues. The genocide grinds on. As we go to press, the death toll in Gaza has reached 9,770—overwhelmingly civilians. Some 3,900 are children—420 a day are being killed—1 every 10 minutes. These numbers should “shake each of us to our core,” a UNICEF official said. Another 24,158 Gazans have been injured...