WASHINGTON, D.C. – Global Ministries has signed a statement with 20 other faith-based organizations through the Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) calling for Israel to stop its unfolding military offensive on Gaza City.
With a declared famine spreading across Gaza, further Israeli military operations can only cause further suffering and certain death for civilians being forced to evacuate Gaza City without anywhere else left for them to go.
“This displacement will result in a modern-day death march that is clearly intended to ethnically cleanse half of the Gaza Strip and compress all of Gaza’s population into a tiny sliver of territory incapable of sustaining life,” the statement says. It calls on all parties, including the United States, to use all possible leverage to call upon the Israeli Government to reverse its plans for a military offensive in Gaza City and to instead pursue a durable and lasting ceasefire.
A full copy of the statement can be found here.
