On Jan. 10, I listened to Secretary of State Antony Blinken speak of the horrors of Oct. 7. The murders and kidnappings at Nir Oz and the Nova Festival were heinous.
As Oct. 7 crested and Oct. 8 dawned, the heinous murders of Palestinians began. In the West Bank and the territory of Gaza, I count more than 100 days of targeted bombings, killings and the “not guilty of being Hamas” deaths of journalists, doctors, teachers and poets.
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Cease-fire now. Are we not all human beings?
Julie OttoRiver Vale
This article originally appeared on NorthJersey.com: Israel-Gaza ceasefire needed now