On Oct 12, 2015, UNJPPI wrote a letter to The Right Rev. Jordan Cantwell, Moderator of the United Church of Canada regarding concerns about increasing violence directed towards Palestinians in the West Bank and in Gaza.

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It is with deep concern that we write to raise the issue of increasing violence directed toward Palestinians in both the West Bank and Gaza. In 12 days of bloodshed, 23 Palestinians and four Israelis have died.

Violence has been on the rise since late July with the immolation of the infant, Ali Saad Dawabsha and the subsequent deaths of his mother and father. In and around Jerusalem, Bethlehem and the West Bank violence is escalating fueled in large part by these murders and other attacks by settlers and the Israeli military against Palestinians….

We write to urge you as the spiritual leader of the denomination to ask that you help keep the denomination’s attention focused on the lead of the General Council this summer to expand and broaden the Unsettling Goods campaign in support of our Palestinian brothers and sisters who continue to cry out from their experience of decades of suffering. We encourage you to add your voice to other religious leaders around the globe expressing concern with the escalating violence and urging the Israeli government to end their illegal occupation of Palestine.