TELL CONGRESS: The world’s leading authority on food insecurity just officially confirmed widespread famine in Gaza. At the same time, Israel has just begun a full-scale invasion and military occupation of Gaza City. Our lawmakers must finally end U.S. support for Israel’s horrors in Gaza. Sign the petition: End the famine in Gaza and stop U.S. military aid to Israel!
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<p>The world’s leading authority on food insecurity just officially confirmed widespread famine in Gaza.^{<small>1</small>}</p>
<p><strong>The United Nations-backed group of experts found that over half a million people in north Gaza are at risk of dying from starvation, and hundreds of thousands more people face catastrophic shortages as the famine spreads to other areas.</strong> "As this Famine is entirely man-made, it can be halted and reversed. The time for debate and hesitation has passed, starvation is present and is rapidly spreading," read the group’s report.^{<small>2</small>}</p>
<p><strong>Israel created this horror with its aid blockade, and has been fully backed by the U.S. every step of the way.</strong> We must end U.S. support for what Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are calling a genocide in Gaza.</p>

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<p><strong>Israel’s bombardment of Gaza has killed civilians at a rate with few parallels in modern warfare.</strong> Recent reporting from +972 Magazine found that, according to Israel’s own data, “at least 83 percent of Palestinians killed in Israel’s onslaught on Gaza were civilians.”^{<small>3</small>}</p>
<p>Israel is only escalating this terror. This week, Israel began a full-scale invasion and military occupation of Gaza City. The operation has sparked global condemnation, including the UN human rights chief saying, “The Israeli Government's plan for a complete military takeover of the occupied Gaza strip must be immediately halted.”^{<small>4</small>}</p>
<p><strong>Yet the U.S. government continues to fund the horror with more than $22 billion in military aid.</strong> Congress has approved expanded military aid to Israel six times since October 7, 2023. No more. Our lawmakers must end arms sales to Israel NOW.</p>

[ [link removed] ]Sign the petition: End the famine in Gaza and stop U.S. military aid to Israel! <p></p><p>The appalling conditions inside ICE detention centers have reached a new crisis point. <strong>Outbreaks of tuberculosis and other diseases are hitting crowded, filthy ICE prisons</strong> across the country.^{<small>1</small>} Medical researchers say that the spread of these diseases will only get worse.^{<small>2</small>}</p><p>Instead of addressing the horrid conditions in ICE prisons — like tens of people sharing the same toilet, and drinking from water spigots attached to toilets^{<small>3</small>} — Trump officials are outright ignoring the abuse. And ICE plans to use the influx of billions in funding from Trump’s budget to double the space it has for its prisons — including so-called “mega-facilities.”^{<small>4</small>}</p><p>At least 12 people have died in ICE custody under Trump — on pace for one of the deadliest years in immigrant detention.^{<small>5,6</small>} More will die, and many others will get sick and suffer abuse in ICE prisons unless Congress holds ICE accountable.</p><p><strong>Sign the petition: Investigate ICE prisons and save immigrants from horrible, inhumane treatment!</strong></p><p>After a man died by suicide in the largest ICE detention center in the northeast — one with a documented history of abuse — advocates are calling for the facility to be shutdown.^{<small>7</small>}</p><p>This comes after Democratic lawmakers and Human Rights Watch documented the horrible treatment of people at ICE prisons in Florida. Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz called Alligator Alcatraz an <strong>“internment camp.”</strong>^{<small>8</small>} In another facility, Human Rights Watch found a dozen women crammed in one cell with no beds and a single toilet covered in feces. One man that ICE imprisoned for 63 days with no charge, said, <strong>“You feel like your life is over.”</strong>^{<small>9</small>}</p><p>These are just some of the horrors of the Trump administration’s mass deportations. Our lawmakers must take a stand and do everything they can to end these “internment camps” on American soil. </p><p><strong>Sign the petition: Investigate ICE prisons now! Protect immigrants from brutal ICE abuses.</strong></p><p>Thanks for taking action,</p><p>Joey and the Demand Progress team</p>
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<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NPR, "Famine confirmed in northern Gaza, says U.N.-backed agency,” </span><a href="[link removed]" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">August 22, 2025.</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ibid.</span></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">+972 Magazine, "Israeli army database suggests at least 83% of Gaza dead were civilians,” </span><a href="[link removed]" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">August 21, 2025.</span></a></li>
<li style="font-weight: 400;" aria-level="1"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Reuters, "Israel says it has taken first steps of military operation in Gaza City,” </span><a href="[link removed]" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><span style="font-weight: 400;">August 21, 2025.</span></a></li>
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