CODEPINK's Medea Benjamin talked about the dire need for humanitarian action for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and emphasized the need for building an online humanitarian community through the portal LifelinePalestine.org, a project of the United Palestinian Appeal (UPA).

Israel's 22-day offensive and subsequent border blockade. According to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights, 1,434 Palestinians were killed during the Israeli offensive, 960 of them civilians, among them 288 children.