Here in New York, a delegation of Palestinian Americans who have lost relatives to Israeli attacks in Gaza joined U.N. Palestinian envoy Riyad Mansour at a Security Council press conference Wednesday. This is Dr. Rula El-Farra, who lost over 150 family members since October 7.

Dr. Rula El-Farra: “In December, one of our family members, Sabri El-Farra, was murdered in his home by an Israeli airstrike with his nine young children. His unfortunate wife survived. She was eight months pregnant. She was displaced to an evacuation camp, where she gave birth to her baby boy one month later, in January. … Her child, her newborn infant, died 20 days later from the cold and the harsh conditions in the camps. … Every minute signifies the loss of a life, the starvation of a child. And so, we need an immediate and permanent — not temporary, permanent — ceasefire now.”