News Center- 99 US health workers, who have volunteered in the Gaza Strip over the past year, sent a letter to President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Wednesday. The letter detailed “the massive human toll from Israel's attack” and urged the administration to “end this madness now!”

The physicians, surgeons, nurse practitioners, nurses, and midwives who signed the letter have collectively spent 254 weeks volunteering in hospitals and clinics throughout the besieged enclave.

 “President Biden and Vice President Harris, we are 99 American physicians and nurses who have witnessed crimes beyond comprehension. Crimes that we cannot believe you wish to continue supporting,” the letter stated.

‘The death toll is likely significantly higher’

As of Thursday, at least 41,788 Palestinians have been killed and 96,794 others injured in Israeli attacks on Gaza, according to the Gaza’s health ministry.

“This letter and the appendix show probative evidence that the human toll in Gaza since October is far higher than is understood in the United States. It is likely that the death toll from this conflict is already greater than 118,908, an astonishing 5.4% of Gaza's population,” the health workers said in the letter.

Call for an immediate action

“Our government must act immediately to prevent an even worse catastrophe than what has already befallen the people of Gaza and Israel," the health workers argued. “A cease-fire must be imposed on the warring parties by withholding military support for Israel and supporting an international arms embargo on Israel and all Palestinian armed groups. We believe our government is obligated to do this, both under American law and international humanitarian law. We also believe it is the right thing to do."

“I've never seen such horrific injuries, on such a massive scale, with so few resources," said Dr. Feroze Sidhwa, a trauma and critical care surgeon. “Our bombs are cutting down women and children by the thousands. Their mutilated bodies are a monument to cruelty.”

‘Every day I saw babies die’

“Every day I saw babies die,” said Asma Taha, pediatric nurse practitioner. “They had been born healthy. Their mothers were so malnourished that they could not breastfeed, and we lacked formula or clean water to feed them, so they starved.”

Israeli bombings in the past year have claimed thousands of lives, said Dr. Mark Perlmutter, an orthopedic and hand surgeon. “Gaza was the first time I held a baby's brains in my hand. The first of many.”