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Alcala, Abigail From: Emine YILDIZ < Sent: Tuesday, November 7, 2023 2:41 PM To: eComment Subject: Supporting request to prioritize and agendize resolution in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza and call for ceasefire Hello City Council members, For a majority of us, this past month, we have become witness to the biggest atrocity and test of humanity of our lifetimes. Especially with the widespread use of social media, we were able to witness it all with the rawness it entailed in real time, without it being filtered through mainstream and/or biased media outlets. The images of whole cities being wiped out, hospitals, refugee camps being bombed, the body parts of small children being obliterated to pieces, all in the name of "self-defense" has been morally unacceptable and a disgrace upon humanity today. As we continue about our daily lives in our privileged lifestyles and standards of living, entire families have been mercilessly wiped off the face of the earth. An entire people have been subject to nothing short of ethnic cleansing, nothing short of genocide! Human life is sacred, regardless of race, color, religion, nationality or political affiliation. One life taken is one too many, and here we are, watching idly as not one, not ten, not one hundred, not one thousand, but 10,000 lives have been taken!! More than 4,000 of these lives taken are babies and children, not even being given a chance at life. As adults, we look at those images and we as adults are traumatized. But those babies and children, they are living inside of it!!! These children are having to witness their mothers, fathers, siblings, whole extended families being obliterate in front of their very eyes! Can you imagine being in their shoes?!! Indeed the city council has many things on their agenda regarding local issues. However, when it is our tax dollars that are funding this genocide, this carnage, this absolute horror, I believe this issue takes precedence over any other agenda or talking point. It must take precedent! If we have been given a platform and a voice, we must use it to speak up for those being silenced by bombs and unspeakable traumas! We must, as members of the human family, must come together and say "no!!" to the mass murder of our brothers and sisters, our nieces and nephews, our aunts and uncles in Palestine, in Gaza! We must call for a ceasefire NOW! We must call for an end to the Israeli occupation of the land of Palestine and to the apartheid regime that has been suffocating our brothers and sisters in Palestine for as long as we have been alive on this Earth! "Never again" means "never again for anyone"!! Thank you!