Americans don’t want our tax dollars funding genocide - Tell Congress to Block the Bombs Dear Email, Last week, the United States approved a $6.6 billion weapons deal to Israel. This decision was made while Israel continues to bomb Gaza, despite repeated claims that a “ceasefire” is in place. We all know the ceasefire is little more than a talking point, a rhetorical shield meant to distract from the continued reality of genocide.  Over this past weekend alone, at least 31 Palestinians were killed by Israeli bombardment across Gaza, including attacks in Rafah. Earlier last week, the Israeli Occupation Force (IOF) publicly acknowledged that Gaza’s death toll has, in fact, reached at least 70,000 Palestinians killed over the past two and a half years, a figure long reported by Gaza’s Health Ministry and previously dismissed and denied. Palestinians have documented this genocide in real time for over two and a half years. They did not need the IOF to validate their deaths. But even with that admission, Israel continues to carry out strikes, enforce collective punishment, and entrench mass death under the cover of a so-called ceasefire. Since the ceasefire agreement on October 11, 2025, Israel has violated it over 1,400 times, killing 526 Palestinians and injuring at least 1,447. Israel also continues to refuse to implement many of its obligations under the agreement, most notably allowing the agreed‑upon levels of humanitarian aid and the entry of mobile housing units. As if that wasn’t enough, Israel is accelerating land theft and forced displacement across the occupied West Bank. Settlements are expanding at record speed. Armed settlers are burning Palestinian farmland, attacking villages, destroying olive groves, and driving families off their land. Entire communities are being erased through organized terror and state-backed impunity. And the U.S. response? More weapons. More money. More political cover. The weapons being sent, including Apache attack helicopters, are the same types of arms used repeatedly in attacks on Palestinian civilians, residential areas, hospitals, and refugee camps. Sending them now is yet another explicit endorsement of continued violence. U.S. law is clear: weapons cannot be transferred when there is a credible risk they will be used to commit human rights abuses or war crimes. International law is clear: collective punishment, targeting civilians, and indiscriminate bombardment are crimes. And morally, this could not be clearer. Yet Congress and the Trump administration continue to act as though Palestinian lives are disposable. We refuse to accept that. Take action now and tell your members of Congress to Block the Bombs and stop arming genocide. In solidarity, Americans for Justice in Palestine Action |
