Sex and the City actress Cynthia Nixon says she is going on a hunger strike later this week with a group of five other US politicians in a bid to trigger Israel-Hamas ceasefire.
The 57-year-old Nixon stood outside the White House on Monday with a group of Palestinian supporters holding up signs. She rallied: ‘None of this is normal. None of this is routine and none of this can be allowed to continue.’
Nixon, who is the mother of two Jewish children with her ex-husband, is demanding that President Joe Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.
The actress and political activist said she will take part in the hunger strike for two of the five planned days, before she returns to New York for work.
Since Hamas’ brutal surprise attack on Israel on October 7, at least 14,800 Palestinians — mostly women and children — in Gaza have been killed, according to the Ministry of Health in Hamas-run Gaza.
‘We are here hunger-striking just to sort of mirror to Biden the kind of deprivation that is happening in Gaza and how he has it within his power to make a ceasefire happen,’ Nixon told a group of reporters.
Cynthia Nixon, 57, stood outside the White House on Monday with a group of Palestinian supporters holding up signs. She rallied: ‘None of this is normal. None of this is routine and none of this can be allowed to continue’
Nixon, who is the mother of two Jewish children with her ex-husband, is demanding that President Biden call for a permanent ceasefire in Gaza. Nixon plans to go on the hunger strike two out of the five days
Since Hamas brutal surprise attack on Israel on October 7, at least 14,800 Palestinians — mostly women and children — in Gaza have been killed, according to the Ministry of Health in Hamas-run Gaza
The former New York gubernatorial candidate was included in an open letter to the president and Congress that was signed by 260 artists demand a cease-fire, Time reported.
On Friday, there was a humanitarian pause, and a four-day truce that began with the release of more than a dozen hostages as Israel freed many Palestinians who had been imprisoned.
During the rally, she held up a sign the read: ‘Over 6,150 children killed Gaza. How many more before ceasefire?’
Children return to their destroyed homes and neighborhoods in Deir Al-Balah during a humanitarian truce after 7 weeks of incessant Israeli bombardments. On Friday 24 November a four-day humanitarian truce between Israel and Hamas started, with displaced Gazans visiting their homes and assessing the damage from the continuous Israeli strikes
Israel’s death toll stands at 1,200, according to Israeli officials. The majority of those killed were innocent civilians. A total of 240 hostages were taken hostage.
Nixon, who shot to stardom with her role as the feisty Miranda Hobbes in the cult classic series and working on a reprisal, and ‘And Just Like That…’
