Dear Mr. President,
We are a group of organizations representing thousands of American-Palestinian Christians and Muslims who are deeply concerned about the ongoing violence and humanitarian crisis in Gaza. We write to you as fellow believers in the Prince of Peace, who was born in Bethlehem, Palestine -a city where many of us were born- and where Jesus preached a message of love and justice for all people.
As the churches of Palestine had announced the cancellation of all festive Christmas celebrations and limiting them to masses and prayers, in an expression of unity with Gaza and rejection of the ongoing aggression against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the Israeli army and Settler’s violence in the West Bank against the Palestinian civilians. The Christian American-Palestinian community in the United States will also celebrate Christmas this year by praying for peace and calling for an immediate ceasefire.