Lilan Bowden Instagram – Repost from @artists4ceasefire but a note from me to everyone who has seen or even heard of the images of the children starved to death, or the footage of Palestinians being shot in broad daylight, or the father holding up his headless toddler after his refugee camp was bombed, or the transcript of 6 year old Hind left to die in a car with her murdered relatives I beg you to add your voice. You know this is wrong. Please use your voice.
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Calling all artists: it’s not too late to SPEAK UP.
Over two million Palestinians in Gaza face unprecedented levels of starvation — not from a humanitarian disaster, but from Israel’s blockade on food, water, fuel, and medicine. Children are beginning to die from starvation.
UN and countless humanitarian organizations say the aid being allowed in is a drop in the ocean of what is desperately needed. Respected relief agencies have been ready to resume their work, with thousands of trucks containing food and aid just a few miles away—enough to meet the desperate needs of civilians in Gaza.
The current distribution scheme—the Israeli and US-backed Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, virtually the only option for aid—are sites of daily massacres, with open gunfire into starving crowds of people. Over 1000 people have been killed while trying to get aid in the past two and a half months alone.
People are forced to choose between feeding their families and being gunned down.
We call on our fellow artists to speak up in the name of our shared humanity, for an end to the suffering and endless killing. We must loudly say we do not agree with our leaders and governments being complicit in these horrific actions.
We call on our leaders, all those with power in the U.S. and around the globe, to use their influence and ACT NOW and demand Israel LET AID IN.
Our call has not changed— we demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire, immediate, unrestricted delivery of aid to civilians in Gaza, and the release of all the hostages — the first and necessary steps toward restoring humanity, healing, rebuilding, and a just peace.
#PermanentCeasefireNow
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