With Growing Urgency, More US Jews Urge Israel to Ensure Ample Food Deliveries to Gaza
ISRAEL, JUL 31 – Zionist Federation of Australia supports Israel's efforts to defeat Hamas and highlights that nearly a quarter of Gaza's population faces famine-like conditions, urging increased aid access.
- On Tuesday, over twenty rabbis were taken into custody in Senate Majority Leader John Thune's office as they called on Congress to approve food assistance for Gaza amid the escalating humanitarian crisis.
- This event occurred amid growing calls from a broad swath of U.S. Jews urging Israel to increase deliveries of food and medicine to Gaza, reacting to reported famine and hunger conditions.
- Jewish clergy, including over 1,000 signatories led by Temple Sinai's Rabbi Jon Roos, have publicly condemned mass killings and starvation as a weapon of war and called for expanded humanitarian aid.
- Rabbi Andrue Kahn noted that the widespread suffering caused by starvation has reached a breaking point, prompting a growing and more diverse group of U.S. Jews, including rabbis, to speak out and call for changes in Israeli policy.
- The arrests and statements suggest increasing urgency among American Jewish groups to balance support for Israel with humanitarian concern for Gaza, calling on Hamas to end suffering and Israel to facilitate aid.
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With growing urgency, more U.S. Jews urge Israel to ensure ample food deliveries to Gaza
For most Jewish Americans, whatever their political persuasion, support for Israel has been a bedrock principle. Thus it’s notable that a broad swath of U.S. Jews — reacting to the humanitarian crisis in Gaza — have been urging the Israeli government to do more to ensure the delivery of food and medicine.

With growing urgency, more US Jews urge Israel to ensure ample food deliveries to Gaza
A growing number of Jewish Americans are urging Israel to ensure humanitarian aid reaches Gaza, though the ongoing war with Hamas remains a tension point.
Zionist Federation of Australia urges Israel to expand Gaza aid in rare statement
One of the most powerful Jewish organizations in the country, the ZFA said Israel had a 'moral obligation' to provide food to Palestinian civilians amid widespread hunger in the Gaza Strip

‘Moral obligation’: Top Jewish group calls for Israel to allow more aid into Gaza
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ZFA calls for more humanitarian aid to Gaza
Zionist Federation of Australia (ZFA) has issued a statement urging increased humanitarian aid to Gaza, while placing ultimate responsibility for the crisis on Hamas and backing Israel’s efforts to defeat the terror group. ZFA President Jeremy Leibler stated, “The horrors of 7 October must never be repeated,” Leibler said. “That is why we stand shoulder […] The post ZFA calls for more humanitarian aid to Gaza appeared first on J-Wire.
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