american doctors tell 'our politicians' israel isn't the sort of place we aught to be defending if a smart person were to consider their record, and practices;

Ahead of the first anniversary of the start of the war in Gaza, a group of 99 American health workers who served in Gaza has called on the Biden administration to halt arms transfers to Israel because of the devastating effects of Israel’s military campaign and siege on the civilian population.

The health workers attached a detailed appendix to their letter that documents the massive loss of life caused by the war, including the Israeli government’s policy of deliberate starvation. According to their conservative estimate, at least 118,908 people have been killed in Gaza through direct violence, starvation, and disease, and they say that the real death toll is almost certainly higher than that. This estimate represents a loss of life nearly three times greater than the current official count from Gaza’s Ministry of Health.

This letter is a wake-up call to our government to stop acting as an accomplice to the slaughter and starvation of civilians.

The letter’s signatories are witnesses to the human cost of one year of war and man-made famine, and they are imploring the president and vice president to end the policy of unconditional support that has led to this catastrophe. In the letter, first reported by HuffPost, they challenged President Biden and Vice President Harris to confront the horrors that their policy has unleashed: “We wish you could hear the cries and screams our consciences will not let us forget. We cannot fathom why you continue arming the country that is deliberately killing these children en masse.”

The war in Gaza has been extraordinarily dangerous for civilians. The Israeli government’s indiscriminate bombing has reduced the cities of Gaza to rubble and left the civilian infrastructure of the Strip in ruins. In addition to forcibly displacing almost the entire population, the Israeli government has been blocking the delivery of humanitarian aid for the duration of the conflict. According to a joint statement of humanitarian NGOs last month, Israel is still blocking the delivery of 83% of food aid........more.........