ACTION ALERT: Block the $20 BILLION
Weapons Sale to the Israeli Military NOW!

MoveOn

To Members of Congress:

More than 41,689 Palestinian people and 1,000 Lebanese people have been killed by Netanyahu’s escalating military campaign of airstrikes. These airstrikes (which are violations of international law) have been targeting and bombing civilians in refugee camps, hospitals, homes, mosques, churches, and schools since more than 1,200 Israelis were killed and more than 240 taken hostage in the Hamas attacks on October 7, 2023.

A group of U.S. doctors and health care providers who have volunteered in Gaza in the last year estimate that the number of Palestinian people killed by the Israeli military is likely closer to 118,908.

The truth is, our taxpayer dollars and U.S. weapons are being used to fund and carry out the relentless bombing of Palestinian and Lebanese civilians. It’s heartbreaking and wrong, but we can do something about it.

Last week, Senator Bernie Sanders introduced a Joint Resolutions of Disapproval that will (for the first time in history) force a vote in Congress to block the weapons sale to the Israeli military.

Resolutions of Disapproval are the ONLY tool that Congress has to block arm sales. We must use it and we must use it now. Will you sign the petition to demand that the $20 billion weapon sale to the Israeli military be blocked NOW?

Why Is This Important?

The reality is that the U.S. government is Netanyahu’s largest supplier of weapons, and Congress has already passed legislation to send Israel $3.8 billion every year for the next five years. In the last year alone, Congress has voted to send more than $10 billion in American taxpayer dollars to the extremist Israeli government to buy more of the bombs and more of the weapons they are using to bomb and kill the Palestinian and Lebanese people.

One in every 55 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023. You read that right: One in every 55 Palestinians have been killed in the last year. Entire multigenerational Palestinian families have been killed and erased from the registry. Entire lineages have been wiped out.

And nearly half of Gaza’s residents are under the age of 16, and 65% are under the age of 25, effectively meaning that Palestinian children are bearing the brunt of the Israeli government’s collective punishment. It must end now.

50,000 pregnant women and people remain at great risk in Gaza too, with miscarriages, premature births, and stillbirths tripling. One mother, Hind S., almost gave birth to her baby under the rubble in the aftermath of an Israeli military airstrike before she was dug out and rushed to a hospital, where her baby was born with a broken leg from the airstrike.

Babies, children, and families in Gaza are also starving to death.19 Nearly 2.1 million people are food insecure, with 96% of children from 6 months to 2 years old not meeting the minimal nutrition requirements. It’s egregious.

Netanyahu’s military has completely violated international law and committed war crimes time and time again. And none of this would’ve been possible without United States weapons paid for by our very own U.S. taxpayer dollars. Enough is enough! Our members of Congress need to block the $20 billion offensive arms sale to the Israeli military NOW.