This is the third appeal from TFF. The first and the second here.
On August 22, 2025, the UN officially declared famine in Gaza. The world’s top authority on food security called for help and said starvation will spread further within the Strip unless fighting stops and much more aid is allowed in.
More than half a million people in the Gaza Strip are facing catastrophic hunger conditions, while more than a million more are in a food emergency phase, the report states. This man-made catastrophic famine could have been prevented by a steady flow of humanitarian aid into the enclave, relief chief Tom Fletcher pointed out.
“Yet food stacks up at borders because of systematic obstruction by Israel,” Mr. Fletcher said. “It is a famine within a few 100 meters of food in a fertile land.”
The UN’s top aid official underscored that the famine in Gaza is “caused by cruelty, justified by revenge, enabled by indifference and sustained by complicity”.
The situation “must spur the world to more urgent action, must shame the world to do better,” he said.
www.un.org/unispal/document/ocha-ohchr-wfp-who-press-briefing-22aug25/
Overwhelmed by helplessly watching the cruelty going on in Gaza we, like literally millions of citizens all over the world, are asking ourselves: What can we do?
One thing we all can do is increase the pressure on our respective governments.
Write yours and demand action NOW instead of just words. There are many open letters already, and everybody can use them to take the parts they feel ok with. Write a letter and send it to them via registered mail.
We encourage you to look into some of the websites below to find your way.
And while any perspective of peace and even a life for Palestinians seems far out of reach in the sight of total destruction, we want to share a very moving moment with you. This was a few years ago, but many Palestinians and increasingly more Israelis insist that it is possible to live together.
Watch “One Day” now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XqvKDCP5-xE
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Open letters
Open letter of former EU ambassadors:
www.ceps.eu/ceps-news/open-letter-calling-for-immediate-implementation-of-eu-measures-against-israels-unlawful-actions-in-gaza-the-west-bank/
www.ceps.eu/ceps-news/an-open-letter-on-israel-palestine/
University professors, Tel Aviv, end of July 2025:
Open Letter from University Presidents | Tel Aviv University | Tel Aviv University
Israeli Universities Open Letter on Gaza – 3 universities fail to sign | Jewish Voice for Labour
1300 Israeli academics, June 4, 2025:
1,300 Israeli academics in urgent call to the heads of academia in Israel
Open letter of medical staff Lancet:
www.thelancet.com/gaza-letter-2014
Heidelberg University staff Dr. Michael Schiffmann und Jindrich Suchy:
www.petitionen.com/offener_brief_von_lehrenden_universitatsangestellten_studierenden_und_burgerinnen_an_bundeskanzler_merz_9_juli_2025
Artists and cultural workers in Germany:
Avaaz – Lassen Sie Gaza nicht sterben, Herr Merz
Ärzte ohne Grenzen/Doctors Without Border
www.aerzte-ohne-grenzen.de/sich-engagieren/aufruf-gaza
International Aid Groups:
www.pbs.org/newshour/world/more-than-100-aid-groups-sign-open-letter-warning-of-starvation-in-gaza
Support from inside Israel
9500 Israeli for Ceasefire:
www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-east/over-9-500-israeli-academics-teachers-medics-sign-petitions-to-release-hostages-held-in-gaza/3538226
Ex security officials from Israel urging to end the war/genocide:
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/04/hundreds-of-ex-israeli-security-officials-urge-trump-to-help-end-war-in-gaza
Soldiers IDF to end the war in Gaza:
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/13/nx-s1-5495235/israel-soldiers-idf-military-gaza-war
Peace groups inside Israel
Standing Together:
www.standing-together.org/en-departments/management-department
Bet’selem:
www.btselem.org/
Peace Now:
https://peacenow.org.il/en/about-us/who-are-we
Rula Daood: “I no longer wanted to ‘lay low’” | UK Friends of Standing Together
Combatants for Peace:
https://www.cfpeace.org/
Rabbis for Human Rights:
https://www.rhr.org.il/eng
Women Wage Peace:
https://www.womenwagepeace.org.il/en/
If Not Now:
https://www.ifnotnowmovement.org/organizations-in-israel-palestine
Breaking the Silence:
https://www.breakingthesilence.org.il/
Palestinian/Israeli Peace Groups:
www.positive.news/world/groups-working-for-israel-palestine-peace/
International:
Jewish Voice for Peace:
www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org/
World Central Kitchen:
https://wck.org/
One possible way to end the massacre:
Uniting for Peace: https://legal.un.org/avl/ha/ufp/ufp.html
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Annette Schiffmann
www.haelfte-des-himmels.de
Heidelberg · mobil 0172-7740333
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INCREASE the PRESSURE – STOP STARVING the people in Gaza !
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