Residents ask Adelanto City Council to consider Gaza ceasefire resolution

Several Adelanto residents and organizers asked the city council on April 24 to introduce and vote on a local resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza and to condemn human-rights abuses at detention centers.

Miranda (speaker 14) urged the council "to be the first city in the High Desert to put a ceasefire resolution on the agenda and pass it," citing thousands of Palestinian deaths and calling for local leadership. Priscilla Munoz, an organizer for High Desert for Palestine, told the council the request was prompted by national protests and local concerns and said, "Our federal government is failing us, so we turn to you, our local government, to take a stance."

Alexis De Jesus and Parker Dukes gave related remarks: De Jesus cited casualty estimates and urged elected officials to "represent your constituents and add to your agenda a vote for a ceasefire resolution," while Dukes, speaking as an ethnically Jewish Adelanto native, said calling for a ceasefire is not antisemitic and urged the council to stand for peace.

Council members did not place the resolution on the agenda during the meeting. The public-comment speakers asked the council to use its platform to represent constituents and to consider formal local action; staff and council did not indicate a formal next step at the meeting.