Palestinian mothers and a Jewish grandmother gathered in Brooklyn on Wednesday to induce Vice President JD Vance to examine in on their West Financial institution households throughout his journey to Israel, the place a truce within the Gaza Strip is threatened by rising violence.
Whereas Vance met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Palestinian mom Najla Khass met with the daughter of a Holocaust survivor in a joint plea for peace and safety.
“Just recently, Israel broke the ceasefire, and our vice president, for me, remains silent,” Khass stated. “As we speak, Palestinians are being deprived of everything, deprived of food, deprived of education, the right to live, and even the basic recognition of the value of their lives. My family is now reduced to skin and bones. My family went from somewhat healthy to skin and bones.”
U.S. Vice President JD Vance, meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the Prime Minister’s Workplace in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Oct. 22, 2025. (Marc Israel Sellem/Jerusalem Submit through AP, Pool)
She stated she was frightened that the preventing may result in a repeat of historical past.
“Israel’s violence against the Palestinians must stop,” Braverman stated. “What Israel is doing is a holocaust. Our tax money should not be sent to kill children. It breaks my heart.”
Khass stated she is frightened about kids who’ve been set again by a lack of schooling infrastructure.
“They’ve lost scholarships, they’ve lost opportunities,” she stated. “They’ve lost everything, and the reason why they’ve lost all that is because they are locked in an open-space prison.”
She stated many many college students misplaced the chance to check overseas.
“I do have a cousin that was accepted to Staten Island College in the U.S., but he can’t leave Gaza,” Khass stated. “He needs a permit from Israel to leave the borders, but everything is on pause. He’s lost semester after semester. Many students have lost opportunities to study abroad — in Germany, Ireland, Poland — because they are not allowed to leave.”
They stated Vance shouldn’t solely be assembly with Israelis.
Vance, in the meantime, pressured that he was not in Israel to babysit the Gaza ceasefire.
“I never said it was easy,” Vance stated. “But what I am is optimistic that the ceasefire is going to hold and that we can actually build a better future in the entire Middle East.”
