Supervisor Mitchell’s Statement on Motion Calling for Protection of Human Rights in Gaza and Israel

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Today, Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, representing the Second District, joined her colleagues on the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors in unanimously supporting Supervisor Lindsey Horvath’s motion, Support for the State of Israel. Supervisor Mitchell also read-in a new motion “Calling for Protection of Human Rights in Gaza and Israel,” that received unanimous support from the Board. The motion calls for the urgent need to prevent the deaths of more innocent Palestinian and Israeli civilians. Supervisor Mitchell, provided the following statement on this:

“All human life is sacred. I am grieving the loss of Israeli and Palestinian civilians in Israel and Gaza. My read-in motion today calls on the Biden administration to provide humanitarian assistance in Gaza and calls for Israel and Hamas to follow international humanitarian law and protect human rights. Israel has the right to defend itself, but it must take caution to protect Palestinian civilian life. I grieve for my Jewish and Israeli residents who are mourning unimaginable loss – the worst massacre of the Jewish people since the Holocaust. I also grieve for my Palestinian residents and mourn for the innocent Palestinian civilians who have been and continue to be killed and displaced this week by Israel’s government. I am very concerned about the rise in antisemitism and Islamophobia that has surfaced across the country this week in response to the war. 

We must continue to partner and address the hate right here in LA County that our Palestinian, Arab, and Jewish community is experiencing every day.” 

To read the full motion, click here.