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More than 100 US lawmakers call for ceasefire
19 May 2021 23:17 BST
A group of 130 members of US Congress on Wednesday sent a letter to President Joe Biden demanding that he call for a ceasefire in the war on Gaza.
"Too many people have already died. More will unnecessarily perish if America does not act with the immediacy this violence demands," read the letter.
It was signed by a number of House Democrats including Mark Pocan, Barbara Lee, Joaquin Castro, and Ro Khanna.
Earlier on Wednesday, a group of progressive House Democrats led by Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced a resolution aimed at blocking the White House's recently announced $735m sale of "precision-guided" bombs to Israel.