Appeal to stop war and allow free entry of electricity, water, relief materials, and medical aid for the people of Gaza.
Dear friend,
We, the scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and scholars worldwide, express our deep anguish at the colossal devastation and loss of life in Gaza. At critical junctures of history, like wars, etc., when science is misused and abused, scientists have not hesitated to come forward to protest and mobilize public opinion against wars and the devastation of people’s lives. In a similar situation, we cannot be just bystanders to the massive human calamity that is currently brought down in Gaza with brute force.

While we roundly condemn the attack on the Israeli civilians and the capturing of civilian hostages by HAMAS, what Israel is doing in reprisal amounts to collective punishment and indiscriminate killing of the peaceful non-combatant residents of Gaza, among which nearly one-third are children. From October 7 to the 26th of October, 2023, Israeli air strikes killed over 6,500 people in Gaza,  and almost 60% of them were women and children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza. Israeli air strikes have turned large swaths of land into rubble; even hospitals are not spared. Israel is openly calling for the displacement of millions of people without a safe haven. It has cut off electricity, fuel, water, and medical supplies to Gaza, violating all International Humanitarian Laws.

We urge the United Nations to take a strong and principled stand and take steps for an immediate ceasefire and allow free entry of relief materials and medical aid for the succour of the besieged and battered people of Gaza. 

We appeal to all well-meaning, concerned people the world over to raise their voices of protest, to stand by the people of Gaza, and to raise their collective voice to compel the powers to ensure a lasting political solution to the problem and thus assure that the Israeli and Palestinian people can exist and co-exist in peace and harmony.

Thank you.

Signatories:
Prof. Dhrubajyti Mukhopadhyay, Scientist, Calcutta University and President of Breakthrough Science Society, India
Prof. Soumitro Banerjee, Scientist, IISER Kolkata and General Secretary of Breakthrough Science Society, India
Prof. Cyril Closset, Scientist, University of Birmingham, UK
Prof. Sarah Tuttle, Astronomer, Seattle, WA, USA
Prof. Nicolas Gisin, Scientist, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Lucianne Walkowicz, Astronomer, Chicago IL, USA
Prof. Carlo Rovelli, Scientist, Aix-Marseille University, France
Prof. Assaf Kfoury, Mathematician, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA
Prof. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, Scientist, New Hampshire, USA
Prof. Ashoke Sen, Scientist, ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru, India
Prof. Alfonso Caramazza, Scientist, Harvard University, USA
Prof. Suchitra Sebastian, Scientist, Cambridge, UK
Prof. Brian Shuve, Scientist, Pomona, California, USA
Prof. Mark M. Wilde, Scientist, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
Prof. Debashis Mukherjee, Scientist, TCG CREST Kolkata, India
Prof. Palash Baran Pal, Scientist, University of Calcutta, India
Pamela Philipose, Journalist, TheWire.in, India
Florence Galland, Educationist, HETS-FR, Fribourg, Switzerland
Prof Santosh Mehrotra, Economist, University of Bath, UK
Prof. Brian Nord, Scientist, Chicago, USA
Dr. Nicetu Tibau Vidal, Scientist, University of Oxford, UK
Prof. Pabitra Banik, Scientist, ISI Kolkata, India
Prof. Meilin Liu, Scientist, Georgia Tech, USA
Mohammad Naddaf, Engineer, Jordan
Prof Santosh Mehrotra, Economist, University of Bath, UK
Corazon Valdez Fabros, Lawyer, International Peace Bureau, Manila, Philippines
Dr. Subramani Mani, Physician and Scientist, Nashville, TN, USA
Prof. Josh Dubnau, Scientist, Stony Brook University, New York, USA
Francine Mestrum, Scholar, Global Social Justice, Brussels, Belgium
Prof. Eduardo C Tadem, Scientist, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Prof. Kapil Raj, Historian of Science, EHESS, Paris, France
Dr. Alicia, Scientist, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Prof. Geraldine Haack, Scientist, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Suvrat Raju, Scientist, ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru, India
Prof. Jeffrey Bowers, Scientist, University of Bristol, UK
Prof. Pradipta Bandyopadhyay, Mathemetician, ISI Kolkata, India
Prof. Nagarjuna, IISER Pune, India
Dr. Daniel Giles, Scientist, The SETI Institute, USA
Prof. Louie John Vallejo, Mathematician, University of the Philippines, Philippines
Dr. Manik Banik, Scientist, SNBNCBS Kolkata, India
Prof. Abhishek Dhar, Scientist, ICTS-TIFR Bengaluru, India
Prof. Gautam Menon, Scientist, Ashoka University, India
Prof. Mayank Mehta, Scientist, UCLA, USA
Prof. Anindita Bhadra, Scientist, IISER Kolkata, India
Tulsi Dass Maharjan, Journalist, Mulyankan Monthly, Nepal
Yug Pathak, Writer, Nepal
Fasna Shumsudheen, Medical Science, Oman
Dr. Abhishodh Prakash, Scientist, University of Oxford, UK
M G Devasahayam, Administrator, India
Prof. Amitava Datta, Scientist, Jadavpur University, India
Prof. Lorenza Viola, Scientist, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA
Satheesh, Engineer,  CA, USA
Prof. Michael Hall, Scientist, Australian National University, Australia
Prof. Kaaren Mathias, Public Health Physician, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand
Dr. Flavio Del Santo, Scientist, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Olival Freire Junior, Scientist, Universidade Federal da Bahia Salvador, Brazil
Prof. Leonardo Miele, Scientist, CNRS, Montpellier, France
Prof. Jan Głowacki, Scientist, ICTQT and University of Oxford, Gdansk, Poland
Prof. Jacopo Lupi, Scientist, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Rob Thew, Scientist, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Benjamin Bose, Scientist, University of Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Caslav Brukner, Scientist, University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Wolfgang Tittel, Scientist, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Dr. Martí Perarnau Llobet, Scientist, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Prof. Jeremy Attard, Scholar in Philosophy of Science, University of Mons, Belgium
Sebastian Horvat, Scientist, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Anna Niemiec, Scientist, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France
Prof. Leah Mickens, Scholar, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Prof. Nicole Gottdenker, Scientist, University of Georgia, USA
Dr. David Costalago, Scientist, NGO, Madrid, Spain
Dr. Luis C. Barbado, Scientist, IQOQI Vienna, Austria
Prof. Sigrid Schmalzer, Historian of Science, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Dr. Rasigan Maharajh, Scholar, Tshwane University of Technology and Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, South Africa
Dr Emilio Pagani-Núñez, Scientist, Edinburgh Napier University, Edinburgh, UK
Dr. Calvin Wu, Scientist, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, USA
Dr. Natalya Dinat, Medical Specialist, DUT, Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr. Vinton Thompson, Scientist, Scholar, American Museum of Natural History, New York, USA
Prof. Brian Cleary, Scientist, Boston University, Boston, USA
Matteo Farinella, Science Multimedia Producer, Columbia University, New York, USA
Simon Timmins, Scientist, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Miguel Gallego, Scientist, University of Vienna, Austria
Prof. Philip Gasper, Philosopher, Notre Dame de Namur University, Belmont, USA
Dr. Adrian Carmona, Scientist, University of Granada, Spain
Dr. Tude Bennett, Public Health Expert, UNC Chapel Hill, USA
Prof. Alan Meyers, Pediatrician, Boston University, USA
Dr. Benjamin Concepcion, Scientist, UC Berkeley, USA
Eduardo Amancio Barbosa Oliveira, Scientist, Institute for Theoretical Physics/Sao Paulo State University (IFT/UNESP), Brazil
Dr. Marco Baity Jesi, Scientist, Eawag Zurich, Switzerland
Dr. Bella Seppi, Scientist, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Dr. Christy Dolph, Scientist, University of Minnesota, USA
Dr. Caitlyn Oliver Brown, Scientist, University of Alaska Fairbanks, USA
Dr. Silvia F. de M. Figueirôa, Historian of Science, UNICAMP Campinas, Brazil
Dr. Jared Willard, Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Prof. Ivette Perfecto, Scientists, University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Isabel Yannatos, Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Dr. Kunal Palawat, Scientist, University of Arizona, USA
Dr. Abby Stitgen, Scientist, University of Minnesota-Twin Cities, USA
Dr. Rhea Caldwell, Scholar,  University of Minnesota Minneapolis, USA
Dr. Laura Weingartner, Scientist, University of Alaska, Fairbanks, USA
Dr. John Masson, Biodiversity Specialist and Former CEO of the Local Biodiversity Council Condat-sur-Ganaveix, France
Dr. Jessica James Hale, Mathematics Educator and Scholar, Math Minus Misogyny Atlanta, USA
Prof. Karol Zyczkowski, Scientist, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
Dr. Jessica Santiago, Scientist, National University of Taiwan, Taiwan
Prof. Shannon Murray, Scientist, Blacksburg, Virginia, USA
Prof. Mashupye Maserumule, Tshwane University, South Africa
Vignesh Vaikundaraman, Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research, Göttingen, Germany
Dr. Ahmed C Bawa, Scientist, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr. Ashutosh Rai, Scientist, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea
Connie Chow, Science Educator, University of Kansas, USA
Dr. Jenan Kharbush, Scientist, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, USA
Prof. Robert Newman, Scientist, University of North Dakota, USA
Dr. Jo Ellen McBride, Scientist, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Prof. Dr. Sharad Onta, Public Health, Nepal Public Health Foundation, Nepal
Prof. Archana Prasad, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi, India
Prof. Jaya Josie, Scientist, Zhejiang University and University of Venda, Cape Town, South Africa
Dr. Jason E. Ybarra, Scientist and Director of the WVU Planetarium, West Virginia University, USA
DR. Linda Bergauer, Scientist, University of Bern, Switzerland
Dr. Joydip Bhattacharjee, Physician, Health Service Forum, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Mumthaz, Educationist, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa
Dr. Jerry Rivers, Scientist, North American Climate, Conservation and Environment (NACCE), New York, USA
Diana Galván Escobar, Scientist, UNAM Mexico, Mexico
Martha Lucia Granados-Riveros, Scholar, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico
Dr. Priyanka Saha, Scientist, Uppsala University, Sweden
Prof. Parameswaran Ajith, Scientist,  ICTS-TIFR Bangalore, India
Dr. Tyakal Venkataramana, Mathematician, ICTS-TIFR Bangalore, India
DR. Akshit Goyal, Scientist, ICTS-TIFR Bangalore, India
Md Arif Shaikh, Scientist, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
Dr. Anirban Mukherjee, Scientist, Academia Sinica Taipei, Taiwan
Dr. Pronobesh Maity, Scientist, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dr. Antony Joseph, Scientist, CSIR-National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
Dr. Pritha Dolai, Scientist, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Germany
Madina, Academician, Kizilurt, Russia
Prof. Sibasish Ghosh, Scientist, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences Chennai, India
Dr. Srashti Goyal, Scientist, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Potsdam, Germany
Tommaso Neri, Scholar, University of Florence, Italy
Dr. Climério Paulo da Silva Neto, Scholar,  Federal University of Bahia, Brazil
Dr. Mitali Damle, Scientist, New York University Abu Dhabi,  UAE
Dr. Rishi Das Roy, Scientist, University of Helsinki, Finland
Prof. Anna Sanpera, Scientist, Universitat Autònoma Barcelona, Spain
Dr. Miguel Arocena, Scientist, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay
Prof. Ivette Perfecto, Scientist, University of Michigan, USA
Dr. Mayu Inaba, Scientist, UConn, Connecticut, USA
Dr. Bassem Hassan, Scientist, Paris Brain Institute, France
Dr. Pooja Viswanathan, Scientist, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, USA
Dr. Louis-Eric Trudeau, Scientist, University of Montreal, Canada
Dr. Adam Claridge-Chang, Scientist, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore
Dr. Subbulakshmi S, Scientist, Stanford, USA
Sardar Hamid Ahmed, Engineer, IDS North America, Toronto, Canada
Dr. Joshua Morris, Scientist, University of Vienna, Austria
Dr. Lakshmi Suresh, Scientist, Miltenyi Biotec, Bergisch, Germany
Dr. Francesca Nerattini, Scientist, Italy
Dr. Sriranjani Manivasagam, Scientist, Institute of Psychology, University of Göttingen, Germany
Dr. Akul, Scientist, Technical University of Munich, Germany
Dr. Coleen Murphy, Scientist, Princeton University, USA
Dr. Rathin Basu, Economist, Ferrum College Virginia, USA
Cherif Omar, Scholar, LORIA, Nancy, France
Soklong HIMNLP, Scholar, Cambodia Academy of Digital Technology, Cambodia
Dr. Alfredo Caggianelli, Scientist, Università di Bari, Italy
Dimitra, Scholar, Paris University, France
Dr. Maria Grazia Giansanti, Scientist, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Roma, Italy
Simona, Scholar, National Research Council, Italy
Massimiliano VARDE, Scholar, CNR Venezia, Italy
Dr. Dino Pedreschi, Scientist, University of Pisa, Italy
Dr. Fosca Giannotti, Scientist, Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy
Antonella Palena, Engineer, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Dr. Alberto Clarizia, Scientist, University of Napoli, Italy
Dr. Muhammad Hamza Waseem, Scientist, University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Vetonica Morea, Scientist, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Dr. Silvia Kirsten Nicolis, Scientist, University of Milano, Italy
Prof. Vincenzo Riso, Scholar, University of Minho, Portugal
Dr. Teresa Colombo, Scientist, National Research Council, Rome, Italy
Dr. Gianfilippo De Astis, Scientist,Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia, Rome, Italy
Dr. Roberto Corsini, Scientist, CERN - European Laboratory for Particle Physics, Geneva, Switzerland
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and many hundreds more. 

See https://breakthroughindia.org/appeal-to-stop-war/ for the full list of signatories.




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