By FCNL (Friends Committee on National Legislation) Reprinted with permission; First published for FCNL weekly newsletter, July 25, 2025
At least 21 children have reportedly died of malnutrition in recent days. Many more are at risk without urgent medical aid.
“There are no words to describe the outrage and despair,” the aid group Save the Children said.
This catastrophe is entirely preventable.
Truckloads of food and medicine are sitting right across the border. Yet, since March, the Israel government has blocked nearly all of this aid from getting to those in need.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government’s militarized Gaza Humanitarian Fund (GHF) aid system has been a disastrous and deadly failure. In recent weeks, Israeli soldiers and armed contractors have killed nearly 900 civilians desperately seeking food.
This week, FCNL joined a new statement with more than 100 humanitarian, human rights, and advocacy groups demanding an end to the Israeli government’s devastating aid restrictions and violence against civilians.
As our statement makes clear, "States must pursue concrete measures to end the siege,” including halting weapons to the Israeli government.
Also this week, 28 governments including the U.K., France, and Canada condemned the GHF, calling for full humanitarian access and a permanent ceasefire.
Our government's shameful silence and complicity continues.
Members of Congress must speak up now to demand that humanitarians be allowed to do their jobs and save lives. There’s no time to lose.
As the devastating toll continues to climb, we must always remember that Palestinians in Gaza are not numbers.
“I am a human being. I am a father, a brother, a neighbor,” a fieldworker for Amnesty International in Gaza wrote. “We had a beautiful, warm house, full of peace...Nothing remains now...We are not okay."
Our common humanity demands action to stop this suffering.
One meaningful action you can take is to join our Letters for Gaza campaign. We’ve heard from lawmakers that handwritten letters can have a big impact.
Join thousands of people across the country and write a letter to your members of Congress today.
Since 1943, the FCNL community has lobbied Congress to advance peace and justice. FCNL (Friends Committee for National Legislation) was founded by members of the Friends tradition.
FCNL began lobbying against conscription and for aid to war-torn Europe in the midst of World War II, yet from the beginning Friends had a bigger vision - to plant the seeds of changes for a more peaceful and just world that might take decades to grow. Today, FCNL’s work includes many of the issues of concern to Friends, from military spending and racial equality to a more peaceful foreign policy and a healthy environment.
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