在哈马斯对以色列发动恐怖袭击后，众议院进步众议员柯里·布什、伊尔汉·奥马尔和艾安娜·普雷斯利周五再次呼吁立即在加沙停火。
奥马尔——面对过谁细看最近几天，她先是指责以色列国防军对加沙一家医院的爆炸事件负责，后来又说，美国情报表明以色列没有错，这是“提醒人们，在战争的迷雾中，信息往往是不可靠的，有争议的”——这为她亲巴勒斯坦的观点进行了毫无歉意的辩护。当她呼吁给巴勒斯坦人以人道和自由时，她的声音有些沙哑，有时甚至尖叫。
“你如何看待一起暴行并说，‘这是错误的’，但你却眼睁睁地看着尸体堆积如山，街区被夷为平地?以色列在过去10天里投下的炸弹比我们在阿富汗全年投下的还要多。你的人性在哪里?你的愤怒在哪里?你对人的关怀在哪里?”奥马尔在周五下午举行的新闻发布会上说。
奥马尔是穆斯林，她年轻时，她的家人逃离了索马里的内战。她坦率地谈到了她个人的战争经历，并谈到了自最近以色列和加沙冲突升级以来，她作为一名穆斯林受到的越来越多的威胁。
“你可以骚扰我，你可以威胁我，你可以到处跟踪我，但我永远不会停止说，‘巴勒斯坦人应该得到自由，我们需要解放巴勒斯坦’，我永远不会停止说，我们绝不能允许更多的轰炸来杀害巴勒斯坦人，”奥马尔说。
普雷斯利说，向以色列和巴勒斯坦的儿童和家庭展示人性是至关重要的。
“当我们看到死亡人数上升时，我们不能继续无动于衷。我们也不能成为这场流血事件的同谋。复仇不是外交政策原则，”普雷斯利说。
众议员Ayanna Pressley于2022年6月8日在华盛顿特区举行的众议院监督和改革委员会枪支暴力听证会上发言
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在迈克·布朗的家乡密苏里州被警察枪杀后，布什竞选国会议员。她说，受压迫的社区相互支持是至关重要的。
布什说:“我们以色列兄弟姐妹的小孩和老人，以及我们巴勒斯坦兄弟姐妹的小孩和老人，他们应该得到自决的自由。”。“他们应该完整，他们渴望和平，他们应该得到我们的支持，站出来大声疾呼，不允许任何人甚至是我们的政府允许轰炸一个民族的土地。”
据以色列卫生部称，自哈马斯10月7日对以色列发动恐怖袭击以来，以色列已有至少1400人死亡。据加沙卫生部统计，同期加沙至少有3，785人死亡。
Progressives call for ceasefire: 'Vengeance is not a foreign policy doctrine'
House progressive Reps. Cori Bush, Ilhan Omar and Ayanna Pressley on Friday repeated their calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza following the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel.
Omar -- who has facedscrutinyin recent days for initially accusing the Israel Defense Forces of being responsible for the blast at a Gaza hospital and later saying that U.S. intelligence indicating that Israel was not at fault served as "a reminder that information is often unreliable and disputed in the fog of war" -- gave an unapologetic defense of her pro-Palestinian viewpoint. Her voice was straining and she was at times screaming as she called for humanity and freedom for Palestinians.
"How do you look at one atrocity and say, 'This is wrong,' but you watch as bodies pile up as neighborhoods are leveled? Israel has dropped more bombs in the last 10 days then we dropped in a whole year in Afghanistan. Where is your humanity? Where is your outrage? Where is your care for people?" Omar said at a press conference the three held Friday afternoon.
Omar is Muslim, and her family fled civil war in Somalia when she was young. She spoke candidly of her personal experiences with war, and she addressed increasing threats she says she's received as a Muslim since the recent escalation of conflict in Israel and Gaza.
"You can harass me, you can threaten me, you can follow me around, but I am never going to stop saying, 'Palestinians deserve freedom that we need to free Palestine,' and I am never going to stop saying that there is no way that we should allow in sending more bombardments to kill Palestinians," Omar said.
Pressley said it was essential to demonstrate humanity toward both Israeli and Palestinian children and families.
"We cannot continue to stand idly by numb as we watch this death toll rise. Nor can we be complicit in this bloodshed. Vengeance is not a foreign policy doctrine," Pressley said.
Bush, who ran for Congress following the police shooting of Michael Brown in her home state of Missouri, said it was essential for oppressed communities to stand with one another.
"Our Israeli brothers and sisters' little babies and little kids and elders as well as our Palestinian brothers and sisters' little kids and babies and elders, they deserve the freedom the self-determination," Bush said. "They deserve wholeness they deseve peace and they deserve our support to stand up and speak out and not allow anyone not even our administration to okay the bombing of a land of people."
Israel has suffered at least 1,400 deaths since Hamas launched a terrorist attack on Israel on Oct. 7, according to the Israeli Health Ministry. There have been at least 3,785 deaths in Gaza during the same period, per the Ministry of Health in Gaza.
