To the Honorable:
Mr. Yitzhak Herzog, President of the State
Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister
Knesset Speaker, Mr. Amir Ohana
Lieutenant General Eyal Zamir, IDF Chief of Staff
30th of Av, 5785 / August 24, 2025
We, pediatric intensive care physicians, hereby address the Government of Israel and its head, to protest the continuation and expansion of the war. This policy and the ongoing delay in reaching a deal for the release of the hostages endangers their lives and torments their families for nearly two years now. The expansion of the fighting will also lead to additional casualties among our soldiers. On the other side, the severe humanitarian crisis, which continues to deepen in the Gaza Strip, sows extreme devastation in the lives of the local population, including children. As Israelis who were educated in the State of Israel and internalized the severity of the injustice in allowing the blood of an entire collective to be shed, as Jews who learned the horrors of persecution of a minority, and as physicians who chose to dedicate our lives to helping children, including Palestinian children, we are horrified by the ongoing and terrible harm to the lives of civilians and children in the Gaza Strip and call on the leaders of Israel to immediately stop the offensive. Let us remember: all people were created in God's Image.