[Peace-discuss] JFP alert: Five members of my family were just killed in Gaza

[Robert Naiman via Peace-discuss]

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From: Abir Elzowidi, Just Foreign Policy <info at justforeignpolicy.org>
Date: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 7:07 PM
Subject: Five members of my family were just killed in Gaza
To: naiman at justforeignpolicy.org


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Dear Robert,

*Help me stop the violence in Gaza and end the blockade by signing my
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My name is Abir Elzowidi. I work in Los Angeles for a small NGO called
“Oasis of Peace” promoting peaceful co-existence between Israelis and
Palestinians, Christians, Muslims and Jews.

A few days ago, five members of my family—including two small children—were
killed in my village of Beit Hanoun in Gaza. A few days before, several
other family members were told to leave their homes and made to stand by
and watch as members of the Israeli Defense Force bombed their homes. They
are now homeless, including my 93 year-old grandmother. Now I am afraid for
the safety of my mother, my sister, my brother and their children in Gaza
City as they are bombing randomly all around them. They, like others in
Gaza, have nowhere safe to go.

I am grieving but I need your support. Together, we are not powerless. We
can use our voices in this country to say enough is enough: stop the
bombing, stop killing innocent children!

*Thursday, July 24, will be a national day of action on Gaza.* Here are two
things you can do to help stop the violence:

   - *Sign my petition calling on the Obama Administration and Congress to
   use all the tools at their disposal to end the violence and lift the
   blockade of Gaza.*
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As of Monday, July 21, at least 550 Palestinians have been killed and 3,350
wounded since the new round of violence started two weeks ago in Gaza.
Twenty-seven Israelis, including 25 soldiers and two civilians, have been
killed.

The US, Israel and Egypt put together a ceasefire agreement last week, but
what they proposed did not address a root cause of the violence: Israel’s
seven year-old economic blockade of Gaza. We need to stop the killing now,
but we also need to prevent more killing in the future. Lifting the siege
is the only way to stop the killing long-term—and keep more people like me
from losing family members in the future.

*Please help me stop the killing in Gaza. Sign the petition telling the
Obama Administration and Congress to stop the violence and lift the
blockade of Gaza.*

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Thanks for all you do to help end the violence,

Abir “Abby” Elzowidi
Just Foreign Policy

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