Letter to Representative- Relief Request
Dear (Ambassador/Senator/Excellency),
We watch in dismay as Lebanon is destroyed. We watch with outrage as the world makes no demands for Israel to stop its merciless, inhumane and continuous attacks on the country.
Silence makes you complicit…in over 300 civilian deaths and 1,000 civilian casualties. Silence also makes you complicit in the displacement of over 500,000 civilians from their homes in only one week’s time. Many are now forced to seek refuge in overcrowded schools with no food, blankets, clothing, medical treatment, medical supplies, medicine, gas, water and electricity.
If you prefer, you can exchange the word 'civilian' for mother, father, grandmother, son, daughter, neighbor… please reassess your complicity.
According to Reuters on July 20th, the Israeli military has ignored repeated requests for safe passage of convoys carrying supplies to UNIFIL posts and distressed Lebanese civilians. The Israeli army has targeted and bombed trucks carrying aid into the country, including truckloads of medical equipment. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that humanitarian access corridors need to be agreed upon to ensure safe passage for all medical and other humanitarian supplies.
Civilians able to escape their destroyed villages are often forced to take refuge in unhygienic conditions. There are countless injured civilians that need immediate medical treatment. Throughout the country, civilians find themselves in places with dangerously low supplies of medicine, medical supplies, food, water, electricity, gas and water.
Time is passing and Israel is barring basic supplies from reaching civilians through their targeted bombing of moving trucks. Through your silence, you too are barring the entry of these supplies.
We ask you to please pressure on your government to demand that Israel permit the safe passage of aid vehicles transporting relief supplies to civilians in Lebanon who desperately need it.
Respectfully,
We watch in dismay as Lebanon is destroyed. We watch with outrage as the world makes no demands for Israel to stop its merciless, inhumane and continuous attacks on the country.
Silence makes you complicit…in over 300 civilian deaths and 1,000 civilian casualties. Silence also makes you complicit in the displacement of over 500,000 civilians from their homes in only one week’s time. Many are now forced to seek refuge in overcrowded schools with no food, blankets, clothing, medical treatment, medical supplies, medicine, gas, water and electricity.
If you prefer, you can exchange the word 'civilian' for mother, father, grandmother, son, daughter, neighbor… please reassess your complicity.
According to Reuters on July 20th, the Israeli military has ignored repeated requests for safe passage of convoys carrying supplies to UNIFIL posts and distressed Lebanese civilians. The Israeli army has targeted and bombed trucks carrying aid into the country, including truckloads of medical equipment. The World Health Organization (WHO) reports that humanitarian access corridors need to be agreed upon to ensure safe passage for all medical and other humanitarian supplies.
Civilians able to escape their destroyed villages are often forced to take refuge in unhygienic conditions. There are countless injured civilians that need immediate medical treatment. Throughout the country, civilians find themselves in places with dangerously low supplies of medicine, medical supplies, food, water, electricity, gas and water.
Time is passing and Israel is barring basic supplies from reaching civilians through their targeted bombing of moving trucks. Through your silence, you too are barring the entry of these supplies.
We ask you to please pressure on your government to demand that Israel permit the safe passage of aid vehicles transporting relief supplies to civilians in Lebanon who desperately need it.
Respectfully,
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