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- Democratic Rep. Becca Balint of Vermont is now calling for a ceasefire in Israel's war on Hamas.
- She's the first Jewish member of Congress to do so.
- Killing civilians, and killing children, is an abomination," she wrote in an op-ed.
Democratic Rep. Becca Balint of Vermont on Thursday became the first Jewish member of Congress to call for a ceasefire in Israel's war against Hamas.
"What is needed right now is an immediate break in violence to allow for a true negotiated cease-fire," Balint wrote in an op-ed for VTDigger, a local news site in her home state.