RESOLUTION NO. 240472
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Sponsor: Councilmember Eric Bunch
RESOLUTION - Calling for an immediate and permanent ceasefire and unrestricted humanitarian aid to end the ongoing violence in Palestine.
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WHEREAS, Kansas City, which according its Charter, "draws from the rich diversity among those who call Kansas City 'home'," is committed to fostering a community that embraces diversity, upholds the principles of equality and human rights, believes all sovereign nations, regardless of geographic context, must comply with international law, and recognizes the violation of international humanitarian law in targeting civilians, irrespective of their faith,
ethnicity, or country of origin; and
WHEREAS, the greater Kansas City area is home to an estimated 7,000 Palestinians - artists, doctors, chefs, teachers, lawyers, poets, business owners, friends, neighbors, mothers, fathers, children, and grandchildren of Palestinian origin and descent - all of whom are experiencing paralyzing levels of horror, fear, grief, dehumanization, and abandonment, inflicted by lifelong mental and physical effects of trauma, as a result of the current genocide in Gaza, as well as decades of apartheid, brutality, displacement, and violence by Zionist colonial forces and Israeli policies; and
WHEREAS, Missouri Representative Emanuel Cleaver II; more than 130 cities across the United States; including St. Louis, Missouri; Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Seattle, Washington; Atlanta, Georgia; Akron, Ohio; Wilmington, Delaware; Providence, Rhode Island; San Francisco, California; and Richmond, California; international organizations like Amnesty International, the World Health Organization, and the International Rescue Committee; and 153 Member States of the United Nations during an Emergency Special Session have called for a ceasefire; and
WHEREAS, the ongoing bombardment in Gaza comes in the context of the 75-year forcible displacement of Pales...
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