Congress has chosen to remain willfully oblivious to the suffering of Palestinians living under Israel's cruel blockade.
Jamea Shalout’s home in Rafah, Gaza, consists of two rooms built of cinder blocks and cement. In the room where I met her in late 2019, the only personal belongings visible were the sleeping mats that the family lays out at night and a pile of blankets. Across a dirt courtyard, there is a small kitchen and bathroom — with cinderblock walls, dirt floors and a partial roof made from corrugated tin. Water for the family is delivered into the holding tanks on the family’s property.
Jamea is one of many paying the cost of both the economic and employment crisis in Gaza. According to the, in 2021, the unemployment rate in Gaza was over 26 percent. Among women, the unemployment level increases to over 43 percent. But unemployment is only one part of the humanitarian catastrophe created by the blockade.
While members of Congress may turn their gaze away from Jamea and others, many of their constituents want the blockade to end.initiated by my organization, the American Friends Service Committee , and conducted by YouGov demonstrates that when presented with basic information about the blockade, a plurality of respondents supported ending the blockade.
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