Pro-Palestine Jewish community in US protest at congressman's office
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The movement comprises American Jews who are demanding the US end its backing of the Israeli apartheid entity.
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IfNotNow group during a sit-in at Congressman Dwight Evans' office in Philadelphia on December 9, 2023. (X photo, IfNotNow)
Pro-Palestine members of the Jewish community in the United States are demonstrating outside the offices of Democratic Party Congressman Dwight Evans in Philadelphia, demanding that he support a ceasefire in Gaza.
The IfNotNow group posted on X: "We’ve been making calls and visiting his office for two months. He still hasn’t taken action. We’re not leaving until he does."
The movement comprises American Jews who are demanding the US end its backing of the Israeli apartheid regime.
RIGHT NOW: #JewsForCeasefire are sitting in at @RepDwightEvans' office in Philadelphia and demanding he support an immediate, lasting ceasefire.
— IfNotNow🔥🕎 (@IfNotNowOrg) December 8, 2023
We've been making calls and visiting his office for two months. He still hasn't taken action.
We're not leaving until he does. pic.twitter.com/aalz8YBQlp
The group also posted images of thousands of Jews who attended #ChanukahForCeasefire gatherings around the US to "mourn, find hope, and fight-on for ceasefire, freedom for all held captive, and an end to siege on Gaza."
Last night, thousands of Jews lit candles at #ChanukahForCeasefire gatherings nationwide.
— IfNotNow🔥🕎 (@IfNotNowOrg) December 8, 2023
We came together to mourn, find hope, and fight on — for ceasefire, freedom for all held captive, and an end to siege on Gaza.
Find one near you: https://t.co/9B7d3BGNDJ
📸 Amir Hamja/NYT pic.twitter.com/6LhMo8gpKo
Elsewhere, other pro-Palestine demonstrators halted US President Joe Biden's exclusive fundraiser event in Los Angeles, demanding the event to be canceled and the genocide against Palestinians in Gaza to end.
SHUT IT DOWN!🇵🇸
— ANSWER Coalition (@answercoalition) December 9, 2023
Protesters confront Genocide Joe outside his elite fundraising event in Los Angeles! #ShutItDown4Palestine pic.twitter.com/wSht5zH4ww
Meanwhile, the Biden administration has used an emergency authority to allow the sale of about 14,000 tank shells to "Israel" without congressional review, the Pentagon said on Saturday.
The State Department on Friday used an Arms Export Control Act emergency declaration for the tank rounds worth $106.5 million for immediate delivery to "Israel", the Pentagon said in a statement.
This comes after Washington requested earlier this week Congress' approval for a sale of 45,000 Merkava tank shells to "Israel" to be used in the war on Gaza, a US official and former official said, according to Reuters.
The potential $500 million sale is not part of the fund of $110.5 billion earlier requested by US President Joe Biden for both Ukraine and "Israel".
In its latest report, the Palestinian Health Ministry revealed that the death toll from the Israeli aggression on Gaza has risen to over 17,700 martyrs, over 70% of which are children and women, with at least 48,700 citizens injured with various injuries since the launch of the Israeli war on October 7.
Over the past hours, the Israeli occupation committed 20 horrific massacres and exterminated entire families in the Strip, the Ministry of Health in #Gaza announced.
— Al Mayadeen English (@MayadeenEnglish) December 9, 2023
The Ministry added that two healthcare workers were killed by Israeli snipers at Kamal Adwan Maternity Hospital,… pic.twitter.com/6S53bx1G0V
The Ministry added that in the past hours of Friday, over 300 Palestinians were martyred and 600 others were injured due to the Israeli bombing of various areas of the Gaza Strip.
