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Over 1.4 million women, men and children are sheltering in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Now Israel is escalating its military offensive there.
This escalation risks a further humanitarian catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.
Yet the UK continues to sell arms and provide military support to Israel, making it complicit in this crisis.
Email the Foreign Secretary demanding an end to arms sales, and an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.

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Tell the Foreign Secretary to act for Rafah

Over 1.4 million women, men and children are sheltering in Rafah, in southern Gaza. Now Israel is escalating its military offensive there.
This escalation risks a further humanitarian catastrophe on an unprecedented scale.
Yet the UK continues to sell arms and provide military support to Israel, making it complicit in this crisis.
Email the Foreign Secretary demanding an end to arms sales, and an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire.

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Many of the people who are sheltering in Rafah have been displaced by the Israeli military multiple times, from other areas of Gaza. The humanitarian situation there, and across Gaza, is already dire. People are facing relentless bombardment, famine and disease. There is nowhere safe to go.

This latest escalation of Israel’s military onslaught comes on top of an existing crisis that plausibly risks genocide. The impact of this offensive in Rafah will be catastrophic.

If the UK ends arms sales to Israel, it will send a powerful message that the UK will not sit back and allow an invasion of Rafah to happen without acting.

The UK Government must also do everything in its power to help secure an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. This is the best way to stop the killing across Gaza, get more aid in, and get the hostages released safely.

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Dear {contact_data~firstName} {contact_data~lastName},

I am writing to you today out of deep concern for the escalating situation and invasion in Rafah, Gaza.

As you know, approximately 1.4 million people, including around 600,000 children, are currently in Rafah. A space smaller than Milton Keynes. Many of those people have been displaced several times before in the search for safety, as the whole Gaza Strip has faced a relentless military action and so much of it has been reduced to rubble.

As you have said in your own words “there’s nowhere for them to go” as people in Rafah face an escalating air and ground invasion.

As part of the offensive, Israel has closed the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt - meaning the trickle of aid that was getting through there into Gaza has completely stopped. At a time when people are dying of starvation and facing famine. Diseases are spreading and hospitals are not functioning. There are few words left to describe the catastrophe, on top of an existing crisis, this will cause.

The Deputy Foreign Secretary has himself said that it’s hard to see how an offensive into Rafah would be able to be compliant with international humanitarian law. I am urging you and the UK Government to now act. History will remember what action the UK - and you - took in this moment. Will we be remembered for taking a stand? Or because we waited until it was too late and thousands more people were killed? The UK must do everything in its power to stop the Government of Israel escalating its offensive on Rafah. This must include stopping all arms sales to Israel immediately, in line with its legal obligations, so it is clear to Israel and the world that the UK will not stand back and watch an invasion of Rafah to happen without acting.

I also would like to see the UK do more to help secure an immediate, unconditional and permanent ceasefire. This is the best way to stop the killing across Gaza, get more aid in, and get the hostages released safely.

Please act now, in line with your legal and moral obligations, to help to stop the invasion of Rafah by immediately stopping selling arms to Israel, and urgently acting to help bring about a permanent ceasefire now.

I do not want the UK to be complicit in this catastrophe. I hope that you will take action immediately. The time for words is long over.

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