AhlulBayt News Agency: Hundreds of people gathered at the Islamic Center in Maine on Sunday to write letters to their representatives, urging them to support a ceasefire and humanitarian aid for Gaza, where more than 26,000 people have been killed by Israeli attacks since October.
The event, organized by the Coalition for Palestine, was part of a global campaign to show solidarity with the Palestinian people and to pressure the US government to take action to end the violence, WABI5 reported on Monday.
“It’s all about coming together as a community to call for a ceasefire, for the release of all hostages and prisoners, to get humanitarian aid for Gaza and to put pressure on our elected leaders, on Congressman Golden, on Senators Collins and King, to get them to support the ceasefire resolution and show solidarity with Palestinian people,” said Brendan Davison, the organizer of the coalition.
Renae Al-Fdeilat, a community member who attended the event, said she was a wife of a Palestinian and a mother of Palestinian children, and that she had family in the occupied West Bank. She said she struggled to contact them every day and to find out who was okay.
“It’s just getting to a point where it’s gone on too long, that the amount of bloodshed and it’s not proportionate to October 7th,” she said.
Saladin Wise, a speaker at the event, said the situation in Gaza was affecting millions of people and future generations.
“You see these whole complexes just like turn into rubble, and you really got to think like, how many people is this really affecting and you’re really looking at millions of people and when you really think about it, if you think about it in terms of generational trauma, you’re looking at a lot of future generations that are being affected by this,” he said.
Al-Fdeilat said the community would continue to call their representatives, to reach out to others, to protest, and to raise awareness through social media and personal interactions.
“A lot of people are in their bubble, and they don’t understand what’s going on. So, I feel that it’s up to us and other educated community members to shed some light on what’s going on so other people can be involved,” she said.
The Israeli regime has pounded the Gaza Strip since Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood on Oct. 7.
The Israeli offensive has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
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The event, organized by the Coalition for Palestine, was part of a global campaign to show solidarity with the Palestinian people and to pressure the US government to take action to end the violence, WABI5 reported on Monday.
“It’s all about coming together as a community to call for a ceasefire, for the release of all hostages and prisoners, to get humanitarian aid for Gaza and to put pressure on our elected leaders, on Congressman Golden, on Senators Collins and King, to get them to support the ceasefire resolution and show solidarity with Palestinian people,” said Brendan Davison, the organizer of the coalition.
Renae Al-Fdeilat, a community member who attended the event, said she was a wife of a Palestinian and a mother of Palestinian children, and that she had family in the occupied West Bank. She said she struggled to contact them every day and to find out who was okay.
“It’s just getting to a point where it’s gone on too long, that the amount of bloodshed and it’s not proportionate to October 7th,” she said.
Saladin Wise, a speaker at the event, said the situation in Gaza was affecting millions of people and future generations.
“You see these whole complexes just like turn into rubble, and you really got to think like, how many people is this really affecting and you’re really looking at millions of people and when you really think about it, if you think about it in terms of generational trauma, you’re looking at a lot of future generations that are being affected by this,” he said.
Al-Fdeilat said the community would continue to call their representatives, to reach out to others, to protest, and to raise awareness through social media and personal interactions.
“A lot of people are in their bubble, and they don’t understand what’s going on. So, I feel that it’s up to us and other educated community members to shed some light on what’s going on so other people can be involved,” she said.
The Israeli regime has pounded the Gaza Strip since Hamas-led Palestinian resistance groups launched Operation al-Aqsa Flood on Oct. 7.
The Israeli offensive has left 85% of Gaza’s population internally displaced amid acute shortages of food, clean water, and medicine, while 60% of the enclave’s infrastructure was damaged or destroyed, according to the UN.
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