Palestinians mourn relatives killed when Israel bombed the Nuseirat refugee camp. Photo: Ashraf Amra, UNRWA. CC BY-SA 4.0.

Here at the United Nations in New York City, the Security Council is expected to vote on a resolution calling on all parties to respect an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

The slaughter in Gaza entraps and attacks the helpless, turning shelters into mass graves, erasing entire families, weaponizing nutrition and famine. The spiraling violence shrieks for our attention, screams for effective protection. Who will save innocent people from snipers, aerial attacks, tank-fired missiles, poisoned water, and starvation? The U.S. and many allies instead work to insulate Israel from accountability.

“Overcoming this cocoon of protection,” said international human rights lawyer and former UN official Craig Mokhiber, “requires solidarity between movements, unions, religious communities, and like-minded states working to isolate the Israeli regime and to impose economic, trade, travel, diplomatic, cultural, and other consequences to compel change.”

In NYC, on day fourteen of a Veterans for Peace and Allies Fast for Gaza, a former US Marine who helped initiate the fast, Phil Tottenham, urges us to care about

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