# @breyeschow on Instagram - **Type:** Image - **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/C3cqR-aOtVo - **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/18916775-breyeschow-instagram - **Thumbnail:** https://img.gondola.cc/tr:w-,h-,fo-auto/thumbnails/d8b0965669.jpg - **Posted:** 2024-02-17T12:00:20.000+00:00 - **Account Owner:** Bruce Reyes-Chow (@breyeschow) — https://gondola.cc/breyeschow ## Caption STATEMENT OF PURPOSE Solidarity with the Suffering: Delegation to Palestine and Israel February 15-22, 2024 Our delegation was planned in response to a call from our Christian partners in Palestine-Israel. It is a Presbyterian Church (USA)  delegation, with a few ecumenical partners in attendance. The 35-member delegation includes a former moderator of the General Assembly, five mid council executives, and several Presbyterian ministers and elders from 19 different presbyteries. The purposes of the trip are to express solidarity with all who are suffering in Palestine and Israel during this time of immense violence, to demand an end to Israel’s genocidal bombardment of Gaza and an end to Israel’s systematic ethnic cleansing of Palestinians in Gaza and the West bank and the release of all Palestinian prisoners held unlawfully by Israel, and to call for an end to Hamas’ acts of horrendous violence against civilians and the return of all Israeli hostages held by Hamas. We call attention to Israel’s increased violence and dispossession of Palestinians in the West Bank… We call on Israel to stop impeding urgently needed relief supplies from reaching the residents of Gaza… We join human rights organizations in Palestine and Israel and throughout the world who assert that the current crisis occurs in the context of seventy-six years of Israel's violent dispossession of Palestinians… We condemn in the strongest terms the U.S. government’s unconditional support of the government of Israel which enables it to maintain its brutal military occupation of Palestine by providing weapons and financial support… We decry the Biden’s administration’s decision to suspend aid to UNRWA… We lift up those Palestinians and Israelis who engage in nonviolent actions to achieve a future of justice, equality, and peace for all Palestinians and Israelis… Full Statement and Delegation Reflections can be found here https://www.theipmn.org/blog/solidarity-with-the-suffering  For updates, be sure to follow ipmn_pcusa sabeelelquds and fosnalive. #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #WestBank #FreePalestine #PCUSA #Sabeel #KairosPalestine #Ceasefire #CeasefireNow #solidaritywiththesuffering ## Stats - **Views:** 0 - **Likes:** 307 - **Shares:** 0 - **Comments:** 13 ## Credits | Name | Username | Profile | Role | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Bruce Reyes-Chow | @breyeschow | https://gondola.cc/breyeschow | Writer/Author | ## Tags kairospalestine, ceasefirenow, westbank, sabeel, israel, pcusa, ceasefire, freepalestine, solidaritywiththesuffering, palestine, gaza --- Copyright (c) Gondola