Dear Alachua County Board of County Commissioners,

We wanted to follow up via email regarding our public comment at
yesterday's meeting- when we delivered a letter from over 150 Alachua
County health care workers in support of BOCC passing a resolution calling
for an immediate and permanent ceasefire in Gaza.


In our public comment we requested for a ceasefire resolution to be added
to the county commissioners' agenda in the coming weeks.

We are waiting for your response to this request.

Please let us know when it will be added to the agenda.

Also please inform us if you would like us to draft new wording for a
ceasefire resolution, or if it's preferred to work with the resolution you
previously had on your agenda in January 2024- and update it with current
statistics (and any other input you would like to be considered).

While we realize there may be hesitancy in revisiting this issue, we want
to point out that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has only become more dire
since the last time BOCC discussed it. In January 2024 there were 20,000
deaths in Gaza reported, and now the death toll in Gaza has passed 31,000
people- including 13,000 children.  (Gaza Ministry of Health)  We as health
care workers can not stand by in silence as the death toll continues to
climb. We are asking you as our elected leaders to join us in calling for a
ceasefire.


On March 3rd we held a vigil to honor the health care workers of Gaza, both
those killed and those surviving.   (Over 400 doctors, nurses, and other
health care workers in Gaza have been killed since October 2023).

We sent you all an invitation to the vigil but are not aware if any of you
were able to attend.

Attached to this email are a few pictures from the vigil. We hope that
these pictures help demonstrate that though this catastrophe may seem far
away from Alachua County, the truth is that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza
continues to be felt deeply by many in our community.

We look forward to your prompt reply.

Thank you,

Alachua County Health Care Workers for Gaza

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