United Nations Headquarters

 

Your Excellencies,

I write to you as a concerned global citizen deeply alarmed by the ongoing genocide unfolding in Gaza. As representatives of the international community, you possess both the authority and the responsibility to uphold human rights, defend international law, and protect innocent lives.

For nearly eighteen months, the world has watched the systematic starvation, displacement, and killing of thousands of civilians—half of them children. This is not simply a regional conflict—it is a moral crisis. Hospitals, refugee camps, UN shelters, and even designated safe zones have been bombed. UN officials and humanitarian agencies, including UNRWA, the World Food Programme, and Médecins Sans Frontières, have all sounded the alarm: starvation is being used as a weapon of war, and Gaza’s civilian population is being deliberately and systematically targeted.

Gaza is now experiencing conditions that meet multiple criteria of genocide under the Geneva Conventions: targeted mass killings, forced displacement, the imposition of life-threatening conditions, and explicit statements of genocidal intent by Israeli officials. These acts are not only morally reprehensible—they are criminal under international law.

We must learn from past failures. Condemnation alone cannot prevent further bloodshed. If the United Nations exists to protect the vulnerable, then now is the time to prove it through decisive and unified action.

We respectfully urge all UN member nations to immediately cease the provision of funds for weapons to Israel. We call on you to end support for actions contributing to this humanitarian crisis. It is your moral responsibility to uphold peace and protect innocent lives.

We implore you and your delegation to support the following actions without delay:

- An immediate and permanent ceasefire
- Unrestricted humanitarian access to Gaza
- An end to the illegal occupation of Palestinian territories
- An end to the apartheid regime denying Palestinians equal rights
- An end to illegal settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem
- An end to the torture, rape, and starvation in Israeli detention camps
- The release of all hostages
- Independent international investigations into all violations of international    law
- Accountability for war crimes—without exception
- An immediate end to the provision of funds and weapons to Israel

As of May 22, 2025, approximately 90 truckloads of aid have entered Gaza following intense international pressure. While this is the first significant food delivery after a two-month blockade, the United Nations and aid agencies have called the amount “a drop in the ocean.” No aid had reached the local population by May 21. This limited delivery is seen as a public relations move, not a solution—it does not begin to meet the urgent and overwhelming needs of the people.

The only path to peace is through a ceasefire. It is only during ceasefires that hostages have been safely released. Israel has made it abundantly clear—through both its words and actions—that rescuing hostages is not its priority. Consider the logic: when you starve a population, you claim to be protecting hostages; when you bomb them, you risk killing them. And yet, despite the unprecedented bombardment—worse in scale than the destruction of both world wars in some regions—it is extraordinary that any hostages have survived. That is not due to strategy; it is despite it.

Let us also be clear: defeating Hamas will not bring peace. Hamas is not merely an organization—it is an ideology born from decades of occupation, apartheid, and violence. Even if Hamas were dismantled, the underlying drivers of this conflict would remain unchanged. So long as Palestinians live under a brutal military occupation, deprived of dignity and freedom, peace will remain elusive. As long as Israelis and Palestinians share geography but not justice, the cycle of violence will continue.

October 7th did not happen in a vacuum. That day, while horrific, was a reaction to more than 75 years of displacement, apartheid, land theft, unaccountable killings, and military blockades. None of this excuses the violence, but context matters. To ignore the root causes is to guarantee further devastation.

Many Jewish individuals and organizations around the world—Holocaust survivors, rabbis, and activists—are bravely calling for justice and equality for Palestinians. Their voices are too often silenced or ignored. That, too, is an injustice.

Every day of inaction costs more lives. As a representative of your country to the United Nations, you have the power—and the responsibility—to act. The world is watching. History is watching. And one day, when you are asked what you did during this moral crisis, I hope you can say that you did everything in your power to stop it.

Please, act now. For humanity. For justice. For the children.

Thank you for your time and attention