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Flores, Dora <br />From: Lena AbdelFattah < <br />Sent: Tuesday, March 5, 2024 6:38 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: Support Item 18: Ceasefire Resulution <br />Hello my name is Lena, and I urge the council to support Item 18, the Ceasefire Resolution. <br />It's been 5 months. Israel has been persistent in their indiscriminate and sometimes targeted bombing of civilians, the <br />daily loss of life is consistent and staggering. It's been 5 months of starvation and collective punishment as a weapon of <br />war against international law. A complete dismissal of human life, human rights, the laws of warfare, and international <br />community. Even after the ICJ rules of plausible genocide. We hit the 40,000 civilian death mark, 10 recorded deaths due <br />to malnutrition and starvation, 0 hospitals standing. Everyday we see a war crime more chilling than the day before, <br />each is on its own is enough to shock us to the core, and compel us to speak up and reject such cruelty. Especially when <br />our tax money is funding it, and our government is enabling it. <br />I urge you please not to make us complicit in this Genocide. Let's at least clearly reject the senseless loss of life and <br />unimaginable suffering. Please call for a ceasefire, preservation of the lives and release of all hostages, and to allow <br />uninterrupted urgently needed aid into Gaza. <br />I urge you to allow our community members who have suffered immense loss to grieve, heal and feel that their pain is <br />acknowledged, and their lives and the lives of their loved ones equally matter. <br />Thank you, <br />Lena <br />20 <br />