After three months of insisting that the West Lafayette City Council would not make a formal statement on the war in Gaza or call for a ceasefire – even as people packed council chambers, loudly calling on council members to do so during raucous meetings in March, April and May – a resolution on the war in Gaza is on the council’s agenda for Monday.
Council members Laila Veidemanis and Iris O’Donnell Bellisario will sponsor a resolution meant to back a push for the U.S. to increase humanitarian aid in Gaza, call for the return of hostages and push for a cease fire in a war that has killed more than 34,000 people since Hamas attacked Israel in October 2023.
“Iris and I have talked about this since the first meeting in March,” Veidemanis said Wednesday about a resolution posted with the city council agenda earlier this week.
