END VIOLATIONS OF INTERNATIONAL LAW IN THE OCCUPIED PALESTINIAN TERRITORIES AND IN ISRAEL

The world is watching in horror as Israeli warplanes slam the Gaza strip with airstrikes, killing and injuring hundreds of people. This latest escalation in armed hostilities was sparked by attempts by Israeli forces to displace families in Sheikh Jarrah, and resulting mass protests.

The U.S. sends billions of dollars to the Israeli military each year. The Biden administration has promised to put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. As Israel increases its attacks against civilian targets, and Hamas responds with rocket fire into Israel, we're seeing that promise tested.

Targeting civilians and civilian objects such as residential buildings, and firing rockets indiscriminately into populated areas is in clear violation of international humanitarian law.

Join us to urge President Biden and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken:

Stop U.S. arms sales to Israel and support a comprehensive arms embargo on all parties
Call on the Israel government to stop violating human rights of Palestinians, including the forced evictions in Sheikh Jarrah and the ongoing forced displacement of Palestinians from East Jerusalemt
Call on all parties to the conflict to end other human rights and humanitarian law violations

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Marco

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President

Donald

Trump

Dear President Biden and Secretary Blinken:

I am writing to urge the U.S. State Department and Biden Administration to take immediate and meaningful action to protect civilians in the face of the rapidly escalating hostilities in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories.

For decades, human rights organizations including Amnesty International USA have documented violations of human rights and international humanitarian law by all parties to the conflict in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. Numerous cycles of violence and impunity have led to this current crisis. Right now, there is an urgent need for meaningful efforts to hold perpetrators of violations accountable, and for the U.S. to make clear both publicly and privately that violations of human rights and international humanitarian law will not be met with silence, no matter the perpetrator.

This recent escalation of violence -- including the hostilities inflicted on Palestinian worshippers by Israeli police in and around Al-Aqsa mosque, the indiscriminate rocket attacks into Israeli civilian areas by Hamas, the devastating airstrikes by Israel into Gaza, and the widespread violence in cities across Israel -- was sparked by Israel’s efforts to take over multiple Palestinian homes in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem.

The abuses in Sheikh Jarrah are just the latest episode in an egregious pattern of illegal settlement expansion, evictions, and demolition of Palestinian homes by Israel in the Occupied Territories spanning decades.

The U.S. sends billions of dollars to the Israeli military each year. And the Biden administration has promised to put human rights at the center of U.S. foreign policy. Right now, we're seeing that promise tested.

We urge the Administration and the State Department to:

- Stop U.S. arms sales to Israel and support a UN Security Council-imposed arms embargo on Israel, Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups with the aim of preventing further serious violations of international humanitarian law and human rights by the parties to the conflict

- Demand Israel cease the unlawful forced evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah in East Jerusalem and other areas of the Occupied Palestinian territories

- Strongly and publicly condemn and call for an end to the brutal and repressive tactics used by Israeli police to quell largely peaceful demonstrations

- Hold Israel accountable for the disproportionate and otherwise unlawful use of force and collective punishment by its military in Gaza that has indiscriminately killed civilians, including children, and the raid of Al-Aqsa and brutalizing of worshippers and unarmed protestors by Israeli police

- Call for an independent investigation into human rights violations and war crimes committed in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories by all parties

- Continue to condemn indiscriminate rocket fire by Palestinian armed groups into population centers in Israel, and recognize that this does not justify Israel’s targeting of civilians and civilian objects

- Call on protesters to cease targeting houses of worship, both mosques and synagogues, and for the Israeli government, Palestinian Authority, and Hamas to urge an immediate end to the mob violence taking place in Israeli cities

- Review US security assistance, including military aid, training, and other support. Conduct a thorough review, pursuant to the Leahy Laws, of the use of US-manufactured weapons in committing violations of human rights and international humanitarian law

People in the U.S. and all over the world are watching in horror at the violence in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territories. There is no time to waste. I look forward to hearing your response on this matter.

Sincerely,

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