As per a report published on Muslim Mirror hundreds of staffers of US President Joe Biden’s campaign, signed on a letter on Monday demanding their former boss “hold Israel accountable” for the disproportionate number of deaths incurred in Tel Aviv’s offensive on the Gaza Strip.
“We commend your efforts to broker a ceasefire,” the staffers wrote.
“Yet, we also cannot unseen the horrific violence that unfolded in recent weeks in Israel/Palestine, and we implore you to continue using the power of your office to hold Israel accountable for its actions and lay the groundwork for justice and lasting peace.”
The letter signed by over 500 Biden campaign and Democratic National Committee staffers, is published on the medium website.
“While we should never reduce the loss of human life to numbers, Palestinians have suffered hundreds of casualties, demonstrative of Israel’s power over Palestinians and its penchant for disproportionate responses,” the letter says.
“Israel’s protracted refusal to consider a ceasefire also put Israelis in harm way, prolonging the violence of Hamas’s barrage of rockets and Israel’s air strikes — a cycle that is bound to repeat itself as long as we allow the status quo to stand, where Palestinians have no freedom and Israel controls their lives in perpetuity,” it adds.
In addition to addressing the conflict that concluded with a ceasefire last Friday, the letter urges Biden “to end the underlying conditions of occupation, blockade, and settlement expansion that led to this exceptionally destructive period.”
The letter also urged Biden to “ensure U.S. aid no longer funds the imprisonment and torture of Palestinian children, theft and demolition of Palestinian homes and property, and annexation of Palestinian land.”