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Tips for calling your Senators and Representative offices to ask for help in securing the exit of Dr. Mona El-Farra and highlighting the ongoing blockade of Gaza that where an estimated 90,000 people are waiting to leave to get medical care, pursue their studies, visit family and more.
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Your Goal: To speak directly to their
Senior Staffer for Foreign Policy Ask him or her to call the
State Department and the Israeli Embassy on your behalf,
and call you back!
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What you will need: Phone number to your Representatives
or Senators office in Washington, D.C. A phone and about 10-15 minutes for
your call. A follow-up email to send right after.
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First, find the phone number of your
Representative or Senator in Washington DC
Go to https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members
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Place your call When the receptionist answers,
ask to speak to the Senior Staffer responsible for Foreign Policy.
Before your are transferred, ask for the senior staffers name and write it down.
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If you reach their voicemail Leave a message (speak slowly): My name is ______ and I am a constituent.
Please call me back at .
My message is Urgent. I need your assistance, on my behalf as your constituent, to help a doctor leave Gaza due to family emergency
Dr. Mona El-Farra works for a U.S. nonprofit and holds British and Palestinian passports
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When they answer, or call you back
Start by introducing yourself: My name is ______ and I am a
constituent from .
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Explain why you are calling My call is urgent. I need your help, on my behalf
as your constituent, to help a doctor leave Gaza during a family emergency.
Her name is Dr. Mona El-Farra. She works for a U.S. nonprofit and she is both a British and a Palestinian national.
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Tell them more This doctor is a humanitarian hero because
she stayed in Gaza to help families last summer during the bombing
Her family in England urgently needs her. There is a family emergency.
For the past three weeks, the Government of Israel has refused to give her a Leaving Permit to exit Gaza
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The State Department and the British Foreign Ministry are trying to help so far without success.
I urgently need your help.
Continue
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I urgently need your help
to press for approval of whats called a Leaving Permit so Dr. Mona can
reach her family in their time of need.
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HISTORY: Your intervention is urgently requested
because Gaza is entirely blockaded by Israel and Egypt.
According to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the Rafah crossing to Egypt has been open only 5 days since Jan. 1st.
Think about all the people who go in and out of Manhattan each day. Under normal circumstances hundreds of thousands of people would be going in and out of Gaza.
Dr. Mona is one of some 90,000 now waiting to leave Gaza.
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As your constituent
This is urgent: Please make two calls on my behalf, as your constituent:
1. Call the U.S. State Department through your normal channels;
2. Call the Embassy of Israel in Washington D.C.
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Please call the State Dept. on my behalf, using your usual channels.
Ask State to call the Israeli government to request full and immediate assurance that a devoted physician, Dr. Mona El-Farra Qasim Ghalayni, be granted all permits required to leave Gaza to travel to England in this time of family emergency.
- Urge them to do all they can to lift the blockade of Gaza, too.
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Call the Israeli Embassy Ask the Israeli Embassy to grant
a devoted physician, Dr. Mona El-Farra Qasim Ghalayni, all permits required to leave Gaza to travel to England in this time of family emergency.
Express your hope, on my behalf, that the siege of Gaza be lifted.
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Yes, I will email you a letter of request
TAKE DOWN their INFORMATION: What is your email address? What is
your title? Please spell your name for me once again.
They may ask you to fill-out a request form please do so
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When will you get back to me?
Write down the date, and expect your return call then.
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Thank you very much for your assistance
I look forward to your call on or
Ill give you a call on that date to touch base.
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Add Contact Info to MECAs Template Letter
then email your letter to the Senior Staffer right away!
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Mark your calendar
To follow up on the date promised
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Thats it! Chances are, theyll make the calls.
Call the team at the Middle East Childrens Alliance if you need help, and email us to let us know what the staffers said:
510-548-0542 [email protected]
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Thank you for helping Dr. Mona get her Leaving Permit
Thank you for helping Dr. Mona, and all in Gaza,
in their time of need
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