KQED: Oakland City Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution Demanding Gaza Cease-fire
Update, 10:25 p.m. Monday:
The Oakland City Council unanimously voted to pass a resolution late Monday night to call on Congress to demand a cease-fire in Gaza and the release of all hostages on both sides of the conflict.
“I want Jewish children to live as much as I want Palestinian children to live, but we’ve got to acknowledge the imbalance and disproportionate death on one side,” said District 3 Councilmember Carroll Fife, who introduced the resolution. “I reject the fact that Oakland is not united. We stand together on what counts when it counts.”
Fife credited Muslim and Jewish leaders with helping write the resolution. The resolution cited the city’s official motto, “Love Life” and vowed council support of U.S. House Resolution 786, which calls for “an immediate de-escalation and cease-fire in Israel and occupied Palestine.”
