Fifty-one elected officials including 12 Democratic Members of the House of Representatives, 20 Deputies of the German Bundestag and 19 Canadian Members of Parliament issued an “Open Letter: Ceasefire Now: Avert Humanitarian Catastrophe, Advance the Two-State Solution”—on Jan. 18, which was posted by U.S. Rep. Steven Lynch (D-MA) and German Bundestag member Ralf Stegner (SPD-Pinneberg, Schleswig-Holstein).