Some Metro Detroit community members are fasting in solidarity with Gaza to protest the starvation and malnutrition people in the region face as Israel continues its planned offensive to control Gaza City.

At a press conference on Tuesday at the Central United Methodist Church in Detroit, religious community leaders and representatives from groups such as Veterans for Peace and the United Auto Workers labor union shared why they fasted and urged action to establish a permanent ceasefire.

"What's happening in Gaza is a moral and spiritual crisis," Rev. Paul Perez, the pastor of the Central United Methodist Church in Detroit, said at a press conference on Tuesday.

"There's nowhere else that we can be this morning, except here to join in solidarity and to speak and to stand for peace and j

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