Opinions here at home are shifting toward the war in Gaza.

A new poll from The New York Times and Siena College showing that an overwhelming majority disapprove of President Biden's handling of the Israel-Hamas conflict.

And a slim majority say former President Trump would be better suited to handle the conflict.

This comes after Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin's visit to Israel, signaling renewed support for the country's war efforts.

Though Austin says, quote, Protecting Palestinian civilians in Gaza is both a moral duty and a strategic imperative.

Despite the death count for Palestinians nearing 20,000, Israel today raiding one of the last functioning hospitals in Gaza's north and bombarding the south with airstrikes.

As the violence continues, the push for a cease fire here at home has only grown louder.

Melissa Ross Cooper spoke with families here in Jersey who are not only mourning the loss of loved ones, but fear for those barely surviving thousands of miles away.

I want to hear my uncle's voice.

I want to hear my cousin's voice.

I haven't in five days.

I don't know if they're alive or not.

We don't know.

Fears Najla says she experiences every day, not knowing if her loved ones in Gaza will see another mourning.

Our family that are still alive have no water, no electricity, no food or medicine or medicine because of the blockade.

We all know that they need food.

We all know that they need medication.

We see it.

We hear it.

You hear it in our voices and you see it.

But we're not letting it in.

We as humans are making decisions.

And when these Palestinian people get to live or not, and we are standing here and letting it be.

So she and other members of the Palestinian community are calling on President Biden and elected officials to demand an immediate cease fire.

Please save what's left of my family and the other Palestinian families who have been just asking for one thing for 75 years.

Freedom and equality.

The Council on American-Islamic Relations.

CAIR New Jersey.

Our New Jersey chapter specifically since October 7th.

Has been reaching out to each elected official in New Jersey, calling on them to support a cease fire before the death toll had reached 20,000.

Long before that, we've been calling on our elected officials to support a cease fire.

We've called them up.

Senator Menendez and Booker Pascrell, Mikie Sherrill.

Every single representative and senator, we've met with them and we've called on them.

Yet these families say they're losing more and more members of the community by the minute.

My cousin Razan her 12 year old sister Naron, and my other cousin who's a doctor, were all killed by Israeli shelling and snipers.

Razan was the most beautiful little Palestinian girl who loved things like K-Pop and Billie Eilish.

Her and her sisters only crime were trying to get water when they were shot and killed by Israeli snipers.

And my elderly uncle, who was seven years old, sitting in his apartment, was also shot and killed by Israeli snipers.

Mohammed struggling to hold back the tears after he says an Israeli airstrike killed 120 members of his family yesterday alone.

This is my cousin, Asma.

She's an accountant.

She got sister who's a dentist, sister's an engineer and brother who's a lawyer.

She got killed and she had two twins.

I mean, to orphaned daughters.

That's them.

And that's them, too.

Full of life.

Very joyful.

All gone.

Just two days ago, I received a message from my other brother.

One of my nephews was taken his wife pregnant to the hospital with her mother to deliver the baby.

He was stabbed by Israeli bulldozer.

They stopped the car.

And guess what they did?

They made the bulldozer go all over the car.

And the people, they messed everybody in the car.

Everybody was mashed, like in the street.

Who can live like that?

How much we have to take?

How long we have to be silent.

And how long we need to have for a ceasefire.

The families are expected to meet with Senator Andrew Zwicker tonight to also ask for his support in a ceasefire as they continue to push for peace in Gaza.

For NJ Spotlight News, I'm Melissa Rose Cooper.