A group of doctors who recently returned from the Gaza Strip called on US President Joe Biden and his administration to immediately impose an arms embargo on Israel.

This came in a press conference held by American doctors participating in the Democratic National Convention held in Chicago.

The doctors explained that the Israeli attacks had devastated Gaza, and that if the United States did not immediately impose an arms embargo on Israel, it would "continue to be its accomplice in crime."

"The ongoing Israeli attacks for more than 10 months have made life for any civilian in Gaza literally impossible," said Tammy Abu Ghanem, one of the doctors coming from Gaza.

"We cannot do our job while bombs are falling, Israeli snipers are targeting children and civilians, and Israeli helicopters are landing on groups of civilians. Because Israel has made our mission impossible with direct support from the United States," he added.

Abu Ghanem's colleagues attended the press conference wearing keffiyehs, and stressed that the "horrific dimensions" of what happened in Gaza cannot be fully conveyed.

In turn, Dr. Feroz Sidhwa, in response to journalists’ questions, stated that she had been in Gaza from March 25 to April 8, and had witnessed “genocidal violence” with her own eyes.

"I saw children's heads torn off not once, not twice, but literally every day, by bullets that we paid for. I saw the terrible, systematic destruction of the entire city of Khan Younis," she continued.

During the press conference, a message was read by Mark Perlmutter, an American Jewish doctor working in Gaza.

“I had never seen a young child shot in the head and then in the chest before. I never imagined that I would see two such cases in less than two weeks. I had never seen dozens of young children screaming in pain and terror… I never imagined what a hospital would look like when it was turned into a camp for displaced people,” she said.

"The United States government continued to fund this horrific massacre, not for a week or a month, but for nearly a year," Perlmutter noted in the letter.

"For the sake of the Palestinians, the United States, Israel, Judaism, international law, and all of humanity, please stop arming Israel," he added.