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"title": "Hope and Loss in Gaza: A Bay Area Doctor Reflects on His Aid Mission",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"mceTemp\">\u003c/div>\n\u003cp class=\"p1\">\u003ca href=\"#episode-transcript\">\u003ci>View the full episode transcript.\u003c/i>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">This episode contains descriptions of graphic violence.\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At least 33,000\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Palestinians — including an estimated 13,000 children — have been killed by Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza. The region’s health care infrastructure has been decimated, as a mere 12 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are considered operational. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Mohammad Subeh, an emergency room physician from the South Bay, recently returned from a volunteer medical mission to the city of Rafah in southern Gaza. In this episode, he talks about why he went, what he saw, and the people he met.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC5444138415&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\n\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence. Please take care while listening. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. An estimated 33,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza. At least 13,000 have been children. The Israeli military’s attack on Gaza has also decimated the region’s health care system and put aid workers in danger. An estimated 12 out of 36 hospitals are currently operational. On Monday, Israeli forces completed a two week raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, claiming it had served as a base for Hamas militants. That same day, seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Right now, the need for any help is dire. And despite this recent news, there are still volunteers who are putting themselves in harm’s way to provide food and medical assistance. One of them came from right here in the Bay area. Dr. Mohammad Subeh Is an emergency room doctor in the South Bay, and in February he went to the city of Rafah for a five week volunteer medical mission. Today, I sit down with Doctor Suba to talk about why he went to Gaza and what he wants all of us to know about what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My name is Mohammad Subeh. I’m an emergency physician. I was born to a family that was forcibly displaced from Palestine and a village called the lid in 1948. So they sought refuge in the small country of Kuwait, where I was born in 1984. And I lived, the first six years of my life in Kuwait. As a Palestinian born in Kuwait. You’re not a citizen of Kuwait. So I always held this a travel document that said I was stateless. And so in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, we try to ride out the war for almost two months before we had to abruptly leave as my father was going to be killed. And that was from an early age, my first exposure to war, death, destruction. When we left Kuwait, we came to the United States as refugees. And that in and of itself was a life changing experience. I grew up in Los Angeles and, rougher area of Los Angeles and, in the 90s, surrounded by gang violence, surrounded by really tough living conditions. My elementary school wasn’t too far from our apartment, and very frequently I would hear choppers, you know, police helicopters overhead with the floodlights, looking for people, but also a different sound for the LA County medevac helicopters that would come and land in our elementary school field to pick up trauma patients. And so any time I would hear that from the distance, I would just take off and just run towards the field and just watch the helicopter land and pick up a patient. And I was always very, very much in awe of the team that was working on the helicopter. And I said, you know, I want to do that. I remember at a young age, just looking up at the sky and thinking, you know, what am I doing here? Why did I go through all those difficult moments, you know, at a young age? I just remember kind of really shaping my foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11982074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr.Mohammed Subeh takes a selfie with children at the field hospital where he volunteered in Gaza. (Photo credit: Dr. Mohammed Subeh)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And so what was your path from? From that to the Bay area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>There was a big light switch that turned on for me. I actually wasn’t very, didn’t do well academically in elementary school because I was just so again, I was very confused about what was happening in my life. And so high school for me was very different. It was all about not only doing well academically and learning as much as I can, but also putting my values into action. I was lucky in my final year to be mentored by an ER local ER physician from the Bay area. That was my first exposure to the Bay area and led me to apply to Stanford, where I did the majority of my education, undergrad and grad school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And now you live in the South Bay and, you have a family of your own now, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Yeah, yeah. So we live in Saratoga. My wife and I and our two boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>When did you decide that you wanted to go to Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So I have family in Gaza, aunts, cousins, their children, and we talk on a monthly basis. And you kind of understand what the health care infrastructure looked like, just that baseline, which is not that great, especially under the nearly two decades siege. Because, so our conversation was around like, how can we help? Like, what can we do? Even if it’s a small minute thing that, you know, some way we can move the needle and then you kind of fast forward to, October of last year and the health care infrastructure started, being decimated. You know, from day one. And I remember the first week my wife, I was in an E.R. shift, and my wife sent me a message and said, hey, you should really look into these potential hospital ships that are they’re thinking of sending over to Gaza to serve the people. One. It sent me the message that we’re all on board as a family. Like, we got to go do this. And second, it made me really be much more active in trying to pursue whatever medical mission that’s going to allow me to go there and serve the people in Russia. Once that opportunity came to me, I definitely there was no hesitation. I took it on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Were you afraid before you left?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Do you mean it? Was I afraid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>For your own safety?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My own safety? I never let that paralyze my decision making. From a young age, my parents always taught us. We’re all going to die one day. Every human being is going to die. We don’t know when, where, how, but we’re going to die. And you can’t let that fear of death paralyze your ability to share the gifts that God has given you to the world. And it’s our responsibility to not only be aware of those gifts and nurture those gifts, but also make sure that they’re put into action and bring bring about a better world around us. And so that was always front and center for me and my decision to go to Gaza. My biggest fear actually was my biggest worry was making sure I tied up any loose ends. We actually my family runs a coffee roaster in the South Bay as well. And I roast for, you know, roast coffee on my in my time and your abundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Free time from your regular job as an air doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>But it was, it’s actually one of the things that brings me a lot of fulfillment, because it was, a project that my son, my son and I started together. So kind of going back to your question, the fear was really around making sure, you know, my absence did not, hinder any operation I was leaving behind. And, to me, fearing that I would be a burden on the system, that I go there and be a burden on the people there, and I never wanted that to happen. Death injury never was really front and center for me and, intentionally did not let it be because, yes, there I always had that risk. Right. And it’s a real risk. But we still have to do our part. And that’s what led me to, you know, move on and keep going on this medical mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What was your journey into Gaza like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>I flew into Cairo like everyone, and the only way into Gaza right now is through Rafah, which is on the southern part of the Gaza Strip. As you’re approaching the Rafah crossing. There are miles upon miles of trucks that are parked there waiting to be let in. As soon as you get out of the vehicle and go into the, Egyptian side of the border. You start hearing these drones above your head, not too far away. And these drones are in the form of these reconnaissance planes that are obtaining information of what’s happening on the ground, also outfitted with missiles and quadcopters, which are drones that are outfitted with machine guns. And you kind of constantly hear that, kind of like this annoying hornet that is buzzing around your head, and that doesn’t stop until you exit. That’s constantly there. After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, is this really 2024? Is this earth right now? People were just with torn up clothes, no shoes dirty, no access to clean water, trying to just look through trash. You have people building fires so they can provide heating for their families or cook something, whatever they have access to. And, you start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it’s just shakes the whole vehicle. For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Do you remember the first person you met when you finally got there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My first encounter with a Palestinian. Was this older gentleman. Torn up clothes. The sandals were torn up and he approached me smiling. And he handed me two cookies that he had. And he said, I want you to have this. And I said, I was so bewildered. I was like this gentleman who I know doesn’t have much. He’s giving me two cookies that he has. And I said, no, Hummel, I’m going. Arabic means uncle. I know I’m not. You know, I don’t need this, you know, keep it for for yourself. And he said, no, I want you to have this. I’m so happy you’re here. Thank you for being here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up. What life was like at the field hospital. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What was your first day and where were you based?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My first day in Toronto was the 14th, February. I was based in Russia, so we set up a field hospital. You know, we go to a plot of land, and we set up tents, and we try to operate out of those tents to see patients and offer different services depending on what we can offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Once you’re there and you’re seeing patients. What was a regular day like for you? Was there such a thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>There was no normal day. There was no like, this is how my day looked like. I was at the field hospital 24 seven. I would start off at 430 or 5 a.m. and, I will start my day with journaling. I would journal every day because I had to get my emotions, my thoughts down on paper A to allow me to be able to function. We set up the hospital in January and anticipated about 40 to 50 patients that we’d see on a daily basis. The week I left, we were seeing up to 1000 patients a day, and we found that we needed to really offer all different types of services, many of which we really didn’t have access to or we couldn’t do at 100%. You know, things as basic as rubbing alcohol. For a long time, we did not have. When we did end up getting rubbing alcohol, we had to dilute it from 70% to 7% to make it last as long as possible, because we didn’t know when anymore would be allowed in. We had no access to ventilators, so ventilators are very important for our patients coming in with respiratory distress, respiratory failure. And so we had no means to intubate a patient to put them on a breathing machine, because we had no breathing machines. We actually had very little supplemental oxygen. Medications were very sparse. Sometimes we had antibiotics. Sometimes we didn’t. How many times we didn’t have Tylenol? Ibuprofen. So you have children coming in with febrile seizures. You have no way to bring down their their temperature. Anesthetics, pain medicines. We were doing for a long time major procedures with just ketamine. Ketamine is a medicine that dissociates the mind from the body. And we’re opening people’s chests, their abdomens, resetting intestines, resetting their spleens, all with ketamine. I remember that there was a seven year old girl, eight year old girl named Reema, who had been shot outside of her tent as she was playing outside of her tent. And we had to, she had to undergo, major surgery, open up her abdomen, take out a large portion of her intestines that was injured, repair her urinary bladder. I remember that night after the surgery, she was in excruciating pain, screaming, crying. We had no pain medicines for her. I you know, I would see patients also with medical emergencies. Just things we would see here strokes, heart attacks and not be able to do anything because there are no medications or supplies. There’s no nothing to do for them unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Where most of your patients. Children, elders. Whole range?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>I would say, so about 70% of our cases were trauma patients. The rest were medical emergencies. And, you know, things, people coming in with strokes, sepsis, heart attack. Of the 70%. A large majority were children. Over half were children coming in with shrapnel injuries, gunshot wounds mangled, extremities dead. I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me. Mothers, family members, screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to, I wasn’t prepared to see. You know, I would get these mule drawn carriages bringing me, piles of bodies that I had to go through and figure out. Is there any life left in this body? And I have to put them in body bags. Many of these bodies would come to me like a half skull with a spine, torso, intestines, and have to put those in a body bag and prepare for burial. That’s not something we’ve ever been trained to do. Yet that was a daily, experience for me in Russia. And go. You go through a lot of emotions while they’re on the ground, but it became very frustrating after witnessing and seeing the miles upon miles of a trucks just a few miles away, those trucks holding all the supplies and medications that we could save these people’s lives and do no harm is our main motto in medicine. And, yet we weren’t able to provide that basic care. There is no no, like, one flavor of the day for all of us. The only constant for me was, aside from the atrocities I was seeing, was the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Are there any specific people you met or moments of joy, I suppose. Amid all the suffering that still stick with you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So many people. I think the one that just comes to mind automatically for me right now is, a young boy named Ennis. And this is seven years old. He witnessed his entire family being killed. His only surviving family members is uncle, who is about 30 years old, and niece, is one of the children we housed in our field hospital. As he awaits, evacuation for definitive treatment of his shattered tibia, his shinbone. And, and this is like an old soul. He would always talk to me, and I would talk to him if he had so much wisdom. And he, carried himself in such a different way than any other child I interacted with. And he would always bring a smile to my face. He would call me always Doctor Mohammad. Doctor Mohammad, come. Come sit with me. Let’s talk or communicate with me at the end of the day. And it always would fill up my bucket. There is a night where a young boy had come in and found out that his cousin, who was his best friend, had been killed. And this young boy’s name is Maher, 11 years old, and he was just so distraught, crying and crying. And he said, why? Why did they have to kill Faizan? He’s my best friend. I loved Faisal so much. Why did they have to kill him? Anything I would say or do like didn’t seem sufficient to console him. I hugged him and I would tell him, you know, it’s okay. He’s he’s in gender. He’s in heaven. You know, I took him outside. We were walking around the field hospital and as he was crying, some of these children were housed on their crutches and walkers kind of come over quickly and they say, what’s what’s going on? Why is he crying? And I say, you know, Matt had just found out his cousin was killed, and they all hugged him and they consoled him and said, it’s okay. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Show gratitude. And one of the young boys said to him, you know, in the Koran, Allah tells us that the believers and the patient ones are the ones that when they’re tried with difficult times, say in Elohim, well, you know, like you ride your own to Allah we belong and to Allah we will return. And that was the thing that helped me. I had kind of. Kind of feel the soothing tranquility and peace. And that was offered from a child who is no more than ten years old. It just showed me that these children have developed such a different perspective in terms of healing and coping, that many of us here in our luxuries don’t even have an ounce of that. It made my mission that much more precious and unique for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>When was your last day in Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So our missions are outfitted with like a sometime before and after the entry and exit because of, all the logistics of getting in. So I returned on the 15th of March. So it was, a day and a half before that that I exited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Was it hard to leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Very difficult. I’m having withdrawal. I’m having like a Gaza withdrawal because of, you know, that sense of purpose that I had. While they’re on the ground? Definitely. Incrementally. Feels like it goes away when you’re here. That sense of perspective on life, feeling like you’re having impact. I definitely miss the people. I so miss the people. There was a profound feeling of guilt, of leaving, because it’s like I have this luxury of leaving. Like I can choose one to leave. People can’t choose when to leave. I almost felt embarrassed. Hey, I was leaving and people, everyone would tell me like, we’re going to miss you so much. Please don’t forget us. Please come back. It just felt like. Is this, like tug of war in the heart?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Do you hope to go back to Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I’m in the process of coordinating my second mission and making sure that it’s impactful. More importantly, how I can best help the population there. That’s that’s my kind of my litmus test right now. Where’s my presence? Kind of marginally most beneficial for the population there in right now and making a decision around that question. It’s really having vision and purpose to me going. I feel like there’s so much to be done. There’s so much to be done in bringing awareness to our local communities about what’s happening. And you sit with families there and you realize families here have families there. Everybody’s the same. We’re all human beings, and we have this shared collective humanity. Everybody wants the best for their children, wants the best for themselves. We can stop the harm like this. This is manmade. People have a right to live in their homes peacefully. To live with dignity. To live with self-determination. But these are human rights, and we all enjoy them as we should. And we just have to make sure that we’re not ever complicit in taking those rights away from other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, doctor, thank you very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Thank you for having me here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was Dr. Mohammad Subeh. An emergency room doctor based in Saratoga. This episode was pitched, cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. It was scored by Dana Cronin. Music courtesy of first. Com Music and Audio Network. The Bay is a production of KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. It’s made by Me, Maria Esquinca, and host Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Jen Chien is our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger is our podcast operations manager. César Saldaña is our podcast engagement producer. Maha Sanad is our podcast engagement intern. And KQED chief content officer is Holly Kernan. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-content post-body\">\u003ch2 id=\"episode-transcript\">Episode Transcript\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>This is a computer-generated transcript. While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>This episode contains graphic descriptions of violence. Please take care while listening. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. And welcome to the Bay. Local news to keep you rooted. An estimated 33,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza. At least 13,000 have been children. The Israeli military’s attack on Gaza has also decimated the region’s health care system and put aid workers in danger. An estimated 12 out of 36 hospitals are currently operational. On Monday, Israeli forces completed a two week raid on Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, claiming it had served as a base for Hamas militants. That same day, seven aid workers with World Central Kitchen were killed by an Israeli airstrike. Right now, the need for any help is dire. And despite this recent news, there are still volunteers who are putting themselves in harm’s way to provide food and medical assistance. One of them came from right here in the Bay area. Dr. Mohammad Subeh Is an emergency room doctor in the South Bay, and in February he went to the city of Rafah for a five week volunteer medical mission. Today, I sit down with Doctor Suba to talk about why he went to Gaza and what he wants all of us to know about what he saw.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My name is Mohammad Subeh. I’m an emergency physician. I was born to a family that was forcibly displaced from Palestine and a village called the lid in 1948. So they sought refuge in the small country of Kuwait, where I was born in 1984. And I lived, the first six years of my life in Kuwait. As a Palestinian born in Kuwait. You’re not a citizen of Kuwait. So I always held this a travel document that said I was stateless. And so in 1990, when Iraq invaded Kuwait, we try to ride out the war for almost two months before we had to abruptly leave as my father was going to be killed. And that was from an early age, my first exposure to war, death, destruction. When we left Kuwait, we came to the United States as refugees. And that in and of itself was a life changing experience. I grew up in Los Angeles and, rougher area of Los Angeles and, in the 90s, surrounded by gang violence, surrounded by really tough living conditions. My elementary school wasn’t too far from our apartment, and very frequently I would hear choppers, you know, police helicopters overhead with the floodlights, looking for people, but also a different sound for the LA County medevac helicopters that would come and land in our elementary school field to pick up trauma patients. And so any time I would hear that from the distance, I would just take off and just run towards the field and just watch the helicopter land and pick up a patient. And I was always very, very much in awe of the team that was working on the helicopter. And I said, you know, I want to do that. I remember at a young age, just looking up at the sky and thinking, you know, what am I doing here? Why did I go through all those difficult moments, you know, at a young age? I just remember kind of really shaping my foundation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11982074\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11982074\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-800x600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/Mohammad-with-kids-1.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr.Mohammed Subeh takes a selfie with children at the field hospital where he volunteered in Gaza. (Photo credit: Dr. Mohammed Subeh)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And so what was your path from? From that to the Bay area?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>There was a big light switch that turned on for me. I actually wasn’t very, didn’t do well academically in elementary school because I was just so again, I was very confused about what was happening in my life. And so high school for me was very different. It was all about not only doing well academically and learning as much as I can, but also putting my values into action. I was lucky in my final year to be mentored by an ER local ER physician from the Bay area. That was my first exposure to the Bay area and led me to apply to Stanford, where I did the majority of my education, undergrad and grad school.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>And now you live in the South Bay and, you have a family of your own now, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Yeah, yeah. So we live in Saratoga. My wife and I and our two boys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>When did you decide that you wanted to go to Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So I have family in Gaza, aunts, cousins, their children, and we talk on a monthly basis. And you kind of understand what the health care infrastructure looked like, just that baseline, which is not that great, especially under the nearly two decades siege. Because, so our conversation was around like, how can we help? Like, what can we do? Even if it’s a small minute thing that, you know, some way we can move the needle and then you kind of fast forward to, October of last year and the health care infrastructure started, being decimated. You know, from day one. And I remember the first week my wife, I was in an E.R. shift, and my wife sent me a message and said, hey, you should really look into these potential hospital ships that are they’re thinking of sending over to Gaza to serve the people. One. It sent me the message that we’re all on board as a family. Like, we got to go do this. And second, it made me really be much more active in trying to pursue whatever medical mission that’s going to allow me to go there and serve the people in Russia. Once that opportunity came to me, I definitely there was no hesitation. I took it on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Were you afraid before you left?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Do you mean it? Was I afraid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>For your own safety?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My own safety? I never let that paralyze my decision making. From a young age, my parents always taught us. We’re all going to die one day. Every human being is going to die. We don’t know when, where, how, but we’re going to die. And you can’t let that fear of death paralyze your ability to share the gifts that God has given you to the world. And it’s our responsibility to not only be aware of those gifts and nurture those gifts, but also make sure that they’re put into action and bring bring about a better world around us. And so that was always front and center for me and my decision to go to Gaza. My biggest fear actually was my biggest worry was making sure I tied up any loose ends. We actually my family runs a coffee roaster in the South Bay as well. And I roast for, you know, roast coffee on my in my time and your abundant.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Free time from your regular job as an air doctor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>But it was, it’s actually one of the things that brings me a lot of fulfillment, because it was, a project that my son, my son and I started together. So kind of going back to your question, the fear was really around making sure, you know, my absence did not, hinder any operation I was leaving behind. And, to me, fearing that I would be a burden on the system, that I go there and be a burden on the people there, and I never wanted that to happen. Death injury never was really front and center for me and, intentionally did not let it be because, yes, there I always had that risk. Right. And it’s a real risk. But we still have to do our part. And that’s what led me to, you know, move on and keep going on this medical mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What was your journey into Gaza like?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>I flew into Cairo like everyone, and the only way into Gaza right now is through Rafah, which is on the southern part of the Gaza Strip. As you’re approaching the Rafah crossing. There are miles upon miles of trucks that are parked there waiting to be let in. As soon as you get out of the vehicle and go into the, Egyptian side of the border. You start hearing these drones above your head, not too far away. And these drones are in the form of these reconnaissance planes that are obtaining information of what’s happening on the ground, also outfitted with missiles and quadcopters, which are drones that are outfitted with machine guns. And you kind of constantly hear that, kind of like this annoying hornet that is buzzing around your head, and that doesn’t stop until you exit. That’s constantly there. After going through the process of entering into my first drive through the encampments, you feel like you’ve entered this apocalyptic horror movie. It’s like, is this really 2024? Is this earth right now? People were just with torn up clothes, no shoes dirty, no access to clean water, trying to just look through trash. You have people building fires so they can provide heating for their families or cook something, whatever they have access to. And, you start hearing missile strike after missile strike, and it’s just shakes the whole vehicle. For me, it was very startling. It took me almost a week to actually kind of drown out the missile strikes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Do you remember the first person you met when you finally got there?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My first encounter with a Palestinian. Was this older gentleman. Torn up clothes. The sandals were torn up and he approached me smiling. And he handed me two cookies that he had. And he said, I want you to have this. And I said, I was so bewildered. I was like this gentleman who I know doesn’t have much. He’s giving me two cookies that he has. And I said, no, Hummel, I’m going. Arabic means uncle. I know I’m not. You know, I don’t need this, you know, keep it for for yourself. And he said, no, I want you to have this. I’m so happy you’re here. Thank you for being here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Coming up. What life was like at the field hospital. Stay with us.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>What was your first day and where were you based?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>My first day in Toronto was the 14th, February. I was based in Russia, so we set up a field hospital. You know, we go to a plot of land, and we set up tents, and we try to operate out of those tents to see patients and offer different services depending on what we can offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Once you’re there and you’re seeing patients. What was a regular day like for you? Was there such a thing?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>There was no normal day. There was no like, this is how my day looked like. I was at the field hospital 24 seven. I would start off at 430 or 5 a.m. and, I will start my day with journaling. I would journal every day because I had to get my emotions, my thoughts down on paper A to allow me to be able to function. We set up the hospital in January and anticipated about 40 to 50 patients that we’d see on a daily basis. The week I left, we were seeing up to 1000 patients a day, and we found that we needed to really offer all different types of services, many of which we really didn’t have access to or we couldn’t do at 100%. You know, things as basic as rubbing alcohol. For a long time, we did not have. When we did end up getting rubbing alcohol, we had to dilute it from 70% to 7% to make it last as long as possible, because we didn’t know when anymore would be allowed in. We had no access to ventilators, so ventilators are very important for our patients coming in with respiratory distress, respiratory failure. And so we had no means to intubate a patient to put them on a breathing machine, because we had no breathing machines. We actually had very little supplemental oxygen. Medications were very sparse. Sometimes we had antibiotics. Sometimes we didn’t. How many times we didn’t have Tylenol? Ibuprofen. So you have children coming in with febrile seizures. You have no way to bring down their their temperature. Anesthetics, pain medicines. We were doing for a long time major procedures with just ketamine. Ketamine is a medicine that dissociates the mind from the body. And we’re opening people’s chests, their abdomens, resetting intestines, resetting their spleens, all with ketamine. I remember that there was a seven year old girl, eight year old girl named Reema, who had been shot outside of her tent as she was playing outside of her tent. And we had to, she had to undergo, major surgery, open up her abdomen, take out a large portion of her intestines that was injured, repair her urinary bladder. I remember that night after the surgery, she was in excruciating pain, screaming, crying. We had no pain medicines for her. I you know, I would see patients also with medical emergencies. Just things we would see here strokes, heart attacks and not be able to do anything because there are no medications or supplies. There’s no nothing to do for them unfortunately.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Where most of your patients. Children, elders. Whole range?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>I would say, so about 70% of our cases were trauma patients. The rest were medical emergencies. And, you know, things, people coming in with strokes, sepsis, heart attack. Of the 70%. A large majority were children. Over half were children coming in with shrapnel injuries, gunshot wounds mangled, extremities dead. I never imagined seeing so many dead children in front of me. Mothers, family members, screaming, crying. There was so much that I was seeing that I was not used to, I wasn’t prepared to see. You know, I would get these mule drawn carriages bringing me, piles of bodies that I had to go through and figure out. Is there any life left in this body? And I have to put them in body bags. Many of these bodies would come to me like a half skull with a spine, torso, intestines, and have to put those in a body bag and prepare for burial. That’s not something we’ve ever been trained to do. Yet that was a daily, experience for me in Russia. And go. You go through a lot of emotions while they’re on the ground, but it became very frustrating after witnessing and seeing the miles upon miles of a trucks just a few miles away, those trucks holding all the supplies and medications that we could save these people’s lives and do no harm is our main motto in medicine. And, yet we weren’t able to provide that basic care. There is no no, like, one flavor of the day for all of us. The only constant for me was, aside from the atrocities I was seeing, was the steadfastness of the Palestinian people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Are there any specific people you met or moments of joy, I suppose. Amid all the suffering that still stick with you?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So many people. I think the one that just comes to mind automatically for me right now is, a young boy named Ennis. And this is seven years old. He witnessed his entire family being killed. His only surviving family members is uncle, who is about 30 years old, and niece, is one of the children we housed in our field hospital. As he awaits, evacuation for definitive treatment of his shattered tibia, his shinbone. And, and this is like an old soul. He would always talk to me, and I would talk to him if he had so much wisdom. And he, carried himself in such a different way than any other child I interacted with. And he would always bring a smile to my face. He would call me always Doctor Mohammad. Doctor Mohammad, come. Come sit with me. Let’s talk or communicate with me at the end of the day. And it always would fill up my bucket. There is a night where a young boy had come in and found out that his cousin, who was his best friend, had been killed. And this young boy’s name is Maher, 11 years old, and he was just so distraught, crying and crying. And he said, why? Why did they have to kill Faizan? He’s my best friend. I loved Faisal so much. Why did they have to kill him? Anything I would say or do like didn’t seem sufficient to console him. I hugged him and I would tell him, you know, it’s okay. He’s he’s in gender. He’s in heaven. You know, I took him outside. We were walking around the field hospital and as he was crying, some of these children were housed on their crutches and walkers kind of come over quickly and they say, what’s what’s going on? Why is he crying? And I say, you know, Matt had just found out his cousin was killed, and they all hugged him and they consoled him and said, it’s okay. Alhamdulillah, Alhamdulillah. Show gratitude. And one of the young boys said to him, you know, in the Koran, Allah tells us that the believers and the patient ones are the ones that when they’re tried with difficult times, say in Elohim, well, you know, like you ride your own to Allah we belong and to Allah we will return. And that was the thing that helped me. I had kind of. Kind of feel the soothing tranquility and peace. And that was offered from a child who is no more than ten years old. It just showed me that these children have developed such a different perspective in terms of healing and coping, that many of us here in our luxuries don’t even have an ounce of that. It made my mission that much more precious and unique for me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>When was your last day in Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>So our missions are outfitted with like a sometime before and after the entry and exit because of, all the logistics of getting in. So I returned on the 15th of March. So it was, a day and a half before that that I exited.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Was it hard to leave?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Very difficult. I’m having withdrawal. I’m having like a Gaza withdrawal because of, you know, that sense of purpose that I had. While they’re on the ground? Definitely. Incrementally. Feels like it goes away when you’re here. That sense of perspective on life, feeling like you’re having impact. I definitely miss the people. I so miss the people. There was a profound feeling of guilt, of leaving, because it’s like I have this luxury of leaving. Like I can choose one to leave. People can’t choose when to leave. I almost felt embarrassed. Hey, I was leaving and people, everyone would tell me like, we’re going to miss you so much. Please don’t forget us. Please come back. It just felt like. Is this, like tug of war in the heart?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Do you hope to go back to Gaza?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Yeah, I’m in the process of coordinating my second mission and making sure that it’s impactful. More importantly, how I can best help the population there. That’s that’s my kind of my litmus test right now. Where’s my presence? Kind of marginally most beneficial for the population there in right now and making a decision around that question. It’s really having vision and purpose to me going. I feel like there’s so much to be done. There’s so much to be done in bringing awareness to our local communities about what’s happening. And you sit with families there and you realize families here have families there. Everybody’s the same. We’re all human beings, and we have this shared collective humanity. Everybody wants the best for their children, wants the best for themselves. We can stop the harm like this. This is manmade. People have a right to live in their homes peacefully. To live with dignity. To live with self-determination. But these are human rights, and we all enjoy them as we should. And we just have to make sure that we’re not ever complicit in taking those rights away from other people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>Well, doctor, thank you very much.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Dr. Mohammad Subeh: \u003c/strong>Thank you for having me here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cstrong>Alan Montecillo: \u003c/strong>That was Dr. Mohammad Subeh. An emergency room doctor based in Saratoga. This episode was pitched, cut down and edited by producer Maria Esquinca. It was scored by Dana Cronin. Music courtesy of first. Com Music and Audio Network. The Bay is a production of KQED Public Radio in San Francisco. It’s made by Me, Maria Esquinca, and host Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Jen Chien is our director of podcasts. Katie Sprenger is our podcast operations manager. César Saldaña is our podcast engagement producer. Maha Sanad is our podcast engagement intern. And KQED chief content officer is Holly Kernan. I’m Alan Montecillo in for Ericka Cruz Guevarra. Thanks for listening.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>"
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"content": "\u003cp>The aid group World Central Kitchen said Tuesday that it is pausing its efforts to feed Palestinians in Gaza after seven of its workers were killed by an Israeli strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>\u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/gaza-team-update\">said in a statement\u003c/a> that the team was hit while leaving a warehouse where they had unloaded more than 100 tons of humanitarian food aid brought to Gaza by sea, a route that World Central Kitchen \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/14/1238355996/gaza-aid-ship-world-central-kitchen\">helped establish\u003c/a> just last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization said the convoy had been traveling in a deconflicted zone, in armored cars branded with their logo, and after coordinating movements with Israel’s military, which now says it will investigate “at the highest levels.” Erin Gore, the CEO of World Central Kitchen, called it a “targeted attack.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is not only an attack against WCK; this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S.-based organization, which was founded by celebrity chef José Andrés and his wife Patricia in 2010, delivers food to people on the front lines of natural and humanitarian disasters around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has been \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/middle-east-2023\">working on the ground\u003c/a> in the region since Hamas\u003cstrong>–\u003c/strong>led militants attacked Israel on Oct. 7 and killed more than 1,200 people, according to the Israeli government. Israeli’s military response in Gaza has killed more than 32,000 Palestinians, according to the Gaza Ministry of Health, displaced an estimated \u003ca href=\"https://www.securitycouncilreport.org/monthly-forecast/2024-04/the-middle-east-including-the-palestinian-question-15.php\">1.7 million\u003c/a> and left the territory on the\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239394316/gaza-famine-israel-humanitarian-aid\"> brink of famine\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/wck-in-gaza\">said last week\u003c/a> that it had provided some 42 million meals to people in Gaza over 175 days, calling the situation there “the most dire we’ve ever seen or experienced in our 15-year history.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“More and more people, particularly children, are dying of starvation,” Gore and Andrés said in a joint statement. “We’ve known for months that famine is imminent, and the situation is getting worse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/29/1241148952/gaza-hunger-famine-aid-israel-hamas-war\">food scarce and malnutrition rising\u003c/a>, international experts have warned that some 30% of Gaza’s population is already facing “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2024/03/22/1239276897/theres-already-catastrophic-hunger-in-gaza-who-decides-when-to-call-it-a-famine\">catastrophic” levels of hunger\u003c/a> and that northern Gaza could \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/03/19/1239394316/gaza-famine-israel-humanitarian-aid\">officially see famine\u003c/a> anytime between now and May.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=forum_2010101905110 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/43/2024/03/Gaza-Famine-Getty-Images-crop-1020x574.jpg']World Central Kitchen isn’t the only organization working to get food into Gaza, where Israeli border restrictions, logistical challenges and ongoing fighting severely limit aid deliveries. However, it has played a major role in the humanitarian response, including sending two shipments of hundreds of tons of food to Gaza by sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second such shipment — stocked with shelf-stable items like rice, canned vegetables and proteins, as well as dates in honor of Ramadan — \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/en-us/news/sea-aid-2\">left Cyprus on Saturday\u003c/a>. The Cypriot foreign ministry said Tuesday that some 100 tons of aid had been unloaded in Gaza before WCK announced it was pausing its operations in the enclave, and the remaining 240 tons would be returned to Cyprus, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-02-2024-9bdf66771b62af37d85a2800f71c0e6c\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days ago, WCK vowed to keep pushing to get food into Gaza “until there is substantial aid getting in via land.” Now those plans are up in the air — it says it will be “making decisions about the future of our work soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, here’s what else to know about the organization:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>WCK brings food to the front lines of disasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981655\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local residents in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, wait to receive a hot meal from volunteers of World Central Kitchen after living without electricity for more than four months on Dec. 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrés is a Spanish-American chef known for his numerous U.S. restaurants, PBS travel series and humanitarian work of over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He traveled to Haiti after it was struck by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in 2010, cooking for displaced people in camps — an ad hoc relief mission that helped set World Central Kitchen in motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK has responded to a long list of natural and man-made disasters ever since, working with local partners on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Erin Gore, the CEO of World Central Kitchen\"]‘This is not only an attack against WCK, this is an attack on humanitarian organizations showing up in the most dire of situations where food is being used as a weapon of war.’[/pullquote]It served more than 20,000 meals in the Houston area after \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/20000-meals-harvey\">Hurricane Harvey\u003c/a> in 2017 and another 3.7 million across Puerto Rico in the wake of \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/wck-hurricane-maria\">Hurricane Maria\u003c/a>, for which Andrés was named the \u003ca href=\"https://www.jamesbeard.org/blog/jose-andres-named-2018-humanitarian-of-the-year\">James Beard humanitarian\u003c/a> of the year in 2018 (seven years after winning its “outstanding chef” award).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/04/02/1242221379/world-central-kitchen-history-about#646242247/after-hurricane-maria-chef-jos-andr-s-had-a-crazy-dream-to-feed-puerto-rico\">He told NPR \u003c/a>that same year that he expected to see more chefs getting involved in disaster response, since “restaurant people” are particularly well suited to managing chaos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“What we are very good at is understanding the problem and adapting,” he said. “And so a problem becomes an opportunity … We’re practical. We’re efficient. And we can do it quicker, faster and better than anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/story\">organization has grown\u003c/a> substantially over the years and expanded its efforts to focus not only on disaster response but also resilience training and longer-term community needs, including opening a culinary school in Port-au-Prince several years after the earthquake that started it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has fed survivors of major wildfires in \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/chefsforcalifornia-camp-fire-and-woolsey-fire-update\">California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/hawaii-wildfires-2023\">Hawaii\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/chefsforfedsupdate\">federal workers in D.C.\u003c/a> during the 2019 government shutdown and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bamco.com/blog/bon-appetit-joins-forces-with-world-central-kitchen-to-feed-stranded-cruise-ship-passengers/\">stranded cruise ship passengers\u003c/a> during the early days of the \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/chefs-for-america\">COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>, throughout which it provided food for front-line workers and other vulnerable groups in the U.S. as well as Spain, Indonesia and the Dominican Republic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It delivered hot meals and fresh produce to a Buffalo, N.Y., neighborhood after 10 people were killed in a \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/buffalo-newyork\">mass shooting at a supermarket\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/es-es/relief/uvalde-texas\">distributed food\u003c/a> after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, WCK provided more than \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/turkiye-syria-earthquakes\">20 million meals\u003c/a> to people impacted by the dual earthquakes in Turkey and Syria last April. It has also responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by providing \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/timeline/ukraine-2-years\">millions of meals to people there\u003c/a>, first in hard-hit population centers and neighboring countries, and increasingly in more remote and vulnerable areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This is not the first time WCK has lost workers in a conflict zone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two men are hugging, one man's shirt reads "Relief Team."\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers hug on Tuesday after recovering the bodies of World Central Kitchen staff who were killed by Israeli air strikes in Rafah, Gaza. \u003ccite>(Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>World Central Kitchen has lost workers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several team members have been killed in Ukraine in recent years, according to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said in June that a 60-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/remembering-igor\">volunteer named Igor\u003c/a> was killed when Russian shelling hit his apartment building in Kharkiv and that two other volunteers, Sardor and Viktoria, had been killed in a strike in Chuhuiv the previous July. (The group only identified them by their first names.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11976509,news_11978744,forum_2010101904469\"]\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/28/1221942443/gaza-food-crisis-is-nothing-like-anything-chef-jose-andres-had-seen-before\">Andrés told NPR’s \u003cem>Morning Edition\u003c/em>\u003c/a> in December that WCK had lost a total of six people in Ukraine.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As a cook, as a chef, when I founded this organization, I never expected that this will happen,” he said. “And I almost wanted to pull World Central Kitchen immediately out of Ukraine. But the locals told me: ‘José, You cannot leave. We need you. We need your organization.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conflict zones are inherently dangerous, the organization has also faced criticism over its safety record in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-08/jose-andres-world-central-kitchen-charity-faces-internal-crisis?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&utm_content=businessweek&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter\">\u003cem>Bloomberg\u003c/em> published a story\u003c/a> alleging — among other accusations — that Andrés looked the other way on matters of staff safety, including demanding that staff send a food truck into parts of Turkey that local officials had declared “no-gos” due to landslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés told NPR that disaster and war zones come with risks, and the organization doesn’t “push anybody to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s people that maybe they don’t feel safe doing this job, but then they shouldn’t be in these kind of humanitarian situations,” he added. “But from there to say that José Andrés puts people in danger — I’d never be able to tell anybody to do what I’m not willing to do on my own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The organization has won awards and faced upheaval\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A white helicopter on a tarmac with people taking cases and boxes out of it, and another peron in foreground arranging boxes of food and supplies.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Central Kitchen brought food to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in September 2019, one of many natural disasters to which it responded. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WCK has earned plenty of accolades for its work over the years but has also recently weathered a string of scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama and has twice been named one of \u003cem>TIME\u003c/em>‘s most influential people among them. A handful of Democratic lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4439439-democrats-nominate-chef-jose-andres-for-nobel-peace-prize/\">nominated WCK and Andrés\u003c/a> himself for the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit — which operates on \u003ca href=\"https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/world-central-kitchen/\">non-governmental contributions\u003c/a> — has grown exponentially since its founding. It brought in \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/273521132/202343199349310414/full\">more than $500 million\u003c/a> in contributions and grants in 2022, which the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/world/middleeast/what-is-world-central-kitchen.html\">\u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>reports\u003c/a> was a fourfold increase from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While WCK gets perfect scores on watchdog sites like Charity Navigator and Charity Watch, there have been some concerns and criticisms raised recently about where exactly that money is going — including from within the organization itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/working-with-the-fierce-urgency-of-now\">announced last June\u003c/a> that as it was spending some $2 million a day in Ukraine, it “learned of suspected instances of fraud” and commissioned a law firm to investigate. It ultimately confirmed instances of fraud that amounted to several million dollars, which the organization called “unacceptable, but still represents a tiny percentage of the $432 million we spent feeding people impacted by war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It acknowledged it could have invested more in its internal operations to discover “bad actors” and said it was making changes among personnel and partners in both Ukraine and Turkey as a result — as well as implementing additional safeguards to combat fraud, like an anonymous tip line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has also grown in size, now counting thousands of volunteers and 94 employees, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/world-central-kitchen,273521132/\">2022 filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Humanitarian leaders are condemning the strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two men with hats and blue vests speak behind a wreckage.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Nations staff members gather around the car of the US-based aid group World Central Kitchen that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WCK said the seven workers killed in the Israeli strike included a Palestinian and citizens of Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom and Canada — with one a dual citizen of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. and foreign leaders, as well as international organizations, are offering their condolences and condemnations and calling for an independent investigation into the Israeli military strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UNLazzarini/status/1775061743615557935?s=20\">Philippe Lazzarini\u003c/a>, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — which has lost at least \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1775158002405761135?s=20\">176 employees\u003c/a> in Gaza — said the organization provides “much-needed food assistance to a starving population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said humanitarian workers are #NotATarget, a hashtag that other human rights groups and public officials are using in their posts about the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/chefjoseandres/status/1774947232539644286?s=20\">wrote on X\u003c/a> that he is heartbroken and grieving for the loved ones of those killed, whom he described as “people … angels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing,” he said. “It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>World Central Kitchen isn’t the only organization working to get food into Gaza, where Israeli border restrictions, logistical challenges and ongoing fighting severely limit aid deliveries. However, it has played a major role in the humanitarian response, including sending two shipments of hundreds of tons of food to Gaza by sea.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The second such shipment — stocked with shelf-stable items like rice, canned vegetables and proteins, as well as dates in honor of Ramadan — \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/en-us/news/sea-aid-2\">left Cyprus on Saturday\u003c/a>. The Cypriot foreign ministry said Tuesday that some 100 tons of aid had been unloaded in Gaza before WCK announced it was pausing its operations in the enclave, and the remaining 240 tons would be returned to Cyprus, according to the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-news-04-02-2024-9bdf66771b62af37d85a2800f71c0e6c\">\u003cem>Associated Press\u003c/em>\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Just days ago, WCK vowed to keep pushing to get food into Gaza “until there is substantial aid getting in via land.” Now those plans are up in the air — it says it will be “making decisions about the future of our work soon.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, here’s what else to know about the organization:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>WCK brings food to the front lines of disasters\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981655\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981655\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/ap22362642138270-a3df0d2f7f98537f5cc64fe0c646d0d97ab60332-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Local residents in Kupiansk, Kharkiv region, Ukraine, wait to receive a hot meal from volunteers of World Central Kitchen after living without electricity for more than four months on Dec. 28, 2022. \u003ccite>(Evgeniy Maloletka/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Andrés is a Spanish-American chef known for his numerous U.S. restaurants, PBS travel series and humanitarian work of over a decade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He traveled to Haiti after it was struck by a 7.0-magnitude earthquake in 2010, cooking for displaced people in camps — an ad hoc relief mission that helped set World Central Kitchen in motion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK has responded to a long list of natural and man-made disasters ever since, working with local partners on the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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And we can do it quicker, faster and better than anybody.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/story\">organization has grown\u003c/a> substantially over the years and expanded its efforts to focus not only on disaster response but also resilience training and longer-term community needs, including opening a culinary school in Port-au-Prince several years after the earthquake that started it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It has fed survivors of major wildfires in \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/chefsforcalifornia-camp-fire-and-woolsey-fire-update\">California\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/hawaii-wildfires-2023\">Hawaii\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/chefsforfedsupdate\">federal workers in D.C.\u003c/a> during the 2019 government shutdown and \u003ca href=\"https://www.bamco.com/blog/bon-appetit-joins-forces-with-world-central-kitchen-to-feed-stranded-cruise-ship-passengers/\">stranded cruise ship passengers\u003c/a> during the early days of the \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/chefs-for-america\">COVID-19 pandemic\u003c/a>, throughout which it provided food for front-line workers and other vulnerable groups in the U.S. as well as Spain, Indonesia and the Dominican Republic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It delivered hot meals and fresh produce to a Buffalo, N.Y., neighborhood after 10 people were killed in a \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/buffalo-newyork\">mass shooting at a supermarket\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/es-es/relief/uvalde-texas\">distributed food\u003c/a> after the Uvalde school shooting in Texas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More recently, WCK provided more than \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/relief/turkiye-syria-earthquakes\">20 million meals\u003c/a> to people impacted by the dual earthquakes in Turkey and Syria last April. It has also responded to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine by providing \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/timeline/ukraine-2-years\">millions of meals to people there\u003c/a>, first in hard-hit population centers and neighboring countries, and increasingly in more remote and vulnerable areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>This is not the first time WCK has lost workers in a conflict zone\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981657\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981657\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two men are hugging, one man's shirt reads "Relief Team."\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1199\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-1020x764.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2132321739-85b6cbccce65b49592fd48dc1cba22640d6008f0-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1151.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers hug on Tuesday after recovering the bodies of World Central Kitchen staff who were killed by Israeli air strikes in Rafah, Gaza. \u003ccite>(Ahmad Hasaballah/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>World Central Kitchen has lost workers before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several team members have been killed in Ukraine in recent years, according to the organization.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It said in June that a 60-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/remembering-igor\">volunteer named Igor\u003c/a> was killed when Russian shelling hit his apartment building in Kharkiv and that two other volunteers, Sardor and Viktoria, had been killed in a strike in Chuhuiv the previous July. 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We need your organization.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While conflict zones are inherently dangerous, the organization has also faced criticism over its safety record in the past.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In December, \u003ca href=\"https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2023-12-08/jose-andres-world-central-kitchen-charity-faces-internal-crisis?cmpid=socialflow-twitter-businessweek&utm_content=businessweek&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter\">\u003cem>Bloomberg\u003c/em> published a story\u003c/a> alleging — among other accusations — that Andrés looked the other way on matters of staff safety, including demanding that staff send a food truck into parts of Turkey that local officials had declared “no-gos” due to landslides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés told NPR that disaster and war zones come with risks, and the organization doesn’t “push anybody to go.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Obviously, it’s people that maybe they don’t feel safe doing this job, but then they shouldn’t be in these kind of humanitarian situations,” he added. “But from there to say that José Andrés puts people in danger — I’d never be able to tell anybody to do what I’m not willing to do on my own.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>The organization has won awards and faced upheaval\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981659\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981659\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"A white helicopter on a tarmac with people taking cases and boxes out of it, and another peron in foreground arranging boxes of food and supplies.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-1166140781-7887e774f4a122a5426d40f3d6087538b371292e-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">World Central Kitchen brought food to the Bahamas after Hurricane Dorian in September 2019, one of many natural disasters to which it responded. \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WCK has earned plenty of accolades for its work over the years but has also recently weathered a string of scandals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal by President Barack Obama and has twice been named one of \u003cem>TIME\u003c/em>‘s most influential people among them. A handful of Democratic lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/4439439-democrats-nominate-chef-jose-andres-for-nobel-peace-prize/\">nominated WCK and Andrés\u003c/a> himself for the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit — which operates on \u003ca href=\"https://www.influencewatch.org/non-profit/world-central-kitchen/\">non-governmental contributions\u003c/a> — has grown exponentially since its founding. It brought in \u003ca href=\"https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/273521132/202343199349310414/full\">more than $500 million\u003c/a> in contributions and grants in 2022, which the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/02/world/middleeast/what-is-world-central-kitchen.html\">\u003cem>New York Times \u003c/em>reports\u003c/a> was a fourfold increase from the year before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While WCK gets perfect scores on watchdog sites like Charity Navigator and Charity Watch, there have been some concerns and criticisms raised recently about where exactly that money is going — including from within the organization itself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>WCK \u003ca href=\"https://wck.org/news/working-with-the-fierce-urgency-of-now\">announced last June\u003c/a> that as it was spending some $2 million a day in Ukraine, it “learned of suspected instances of fraud” and commissioned a law firm to investigate. It ultimately confirmed instances of fraud that amounted to several million dollars, which the organization called “unacceptable, but still represents a tiny percentage of the $432 million we spent feeding people impacted by war.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It acknowledged it could have invested more in its internal operations to discover “bad actors” and said it was making changes among personnel and partners in both Ukraine and Turkey as a result — as well as implementing additional safeguards to combat fraud, like an anonymous tip line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The organization has also grown in size, now counting thousands of volunteers and 94 employees, according to \u003ca href=\"https://www.causeiq.com/organizations/world-central-kitchen,273521132/\">2022 filings\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Humanitarian leaders are condemning the strike\u003c/h2>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11981661\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1600px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11981661\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy.jpg\" alt=\"Two men with hats and blue vests speak behind a wreckage.\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy.jpg 1600w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/04/gettyimages-2123636509-fd20c6b0d3feaa8aa00b8607c02cb9f094f63bac-s1600-c85-copy-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">United Nations staff members gather around the car of the US-based aid group World Central Kitchen that was hit by an Israeli strike the previous day in Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip on April 2, 2024. \u003ccite>(AFP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>WCK said the seven workers killed in the Israeli strike included a Palestinian and citizens of Australia, Poland, the United Kingdom and Canada — with one a dual citizen of the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. and foreign leaders, as well as international organizations, are offering their condolences and condemnations and calling for an independent investigation into the Israeli military strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UNLazzarini/status/1775061743615557935?s=20\">Philippe Lazzarini\u003c/a>, the commissioner-general of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) — which has lost at least \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/UNRWA/status/1775158002405761135?s=20\">176 employees\u003c/a> in Gaza — said the organization provides “much-needed food assistance to a starving population.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He said humanitarian workers are #NotATarget, a hashtag that other human rights groups and public officials are using in their posts about the attack.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Andrés \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/chefjoseandres/status/1774947232539644286?s=20\">wrote on X\u003c/a> that he is heartbroken and grieving for the loved ones of those killed, whom he described as “people … angels.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Israeli government needs to stop this indiscriminate killing,” he said. “It needs to stop restricting humanitarian aid, stop killing civilians and aid workers, and stop using food as a weapon. 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"content": "\u003cp>Protesters demanding a cease-fire in Gaza gathered Wednesday night near a fundraiser in San Francisco for President Joe Biden’s 2024 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hundreds of activists filled Alta Plaza Park as part of the demonstration organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Protesters chanted “Free, free Palestine” and “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free” and urged the president to end U.S. aid to Israel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“While Biden charges donors $100,000 for a ticket to his cocktail party, bombs labeled ‘Made in the USA’ are raining down on civilians in Gaza for the fourth consecutive month, killing over 13,000 Palestinian children and counting,” said Suzanne Ali, a Palestinian Youth Movement member, in a written statement. “How dare he visit San Francisco only to rake in cash, ignoring residents of a city which passed a ceasefire resolution with a supermajority?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976664\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976664\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters hold placards and banners protesting the US president and Israel.\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3169-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pro-Palestinian protesters at Alta Plaza Park on Wednesday. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Organizers said they were also concerned by statements from Israeli officials that their military forces could soon launch a ground assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, where more than a million people are reportedly seeking refuge after fleeing Israel’s bombardment of much of the northern Gaza Strip. With Rafah up against Egypt’s border, those people could not go any further south.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are demanding that there is a permanent cease-fire now,” said Party for Socialism and Liberation member Ramsey Robinson, who spoke at the protest. “That’s our money, stolen from the people, stolen from the taxpayers, and we want to let Joe Biden know that we know that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976671\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976671\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"A young man with red shirt and brown clothes speaks into a mic with others standing beside him and a red brick building in the background. \" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3180-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramsey Robinson with the Party for Socialism and Liberation speaks at the protest Wednesday afternoon. \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Biden will reportedly make multiple campaign stops in San Francisco and Los Altos Hills between Wednesday and Thursday. But Robinson thinks that other than “the tiny number of the super-rich,” Biden isn’t popular in the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Suzanne Ali, member, Palestinian Youth Movement\"]‘How dare he visit San Francisco only to rake in cash, ignoring residents of a city which passed a cease-fire resolution with a supermajority?’[/pullquote]“We’ve got to keep coming out and showing face. They like to pretend they don’t see us out here in the streets but we’ve been out here in the streets week after week after week since Oct. 7,” Robinson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian Youth Movement member Violette Mansour said she condemned wealthy San Franciscans who made donations to the Biden campaign, saying the fact the city passed a resolution supporting a cease-fire is “evidence that San Franciscans oppose his continued support of Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The people have the power and the people here will demand and continue to make our voices heard because the people who say they represent us do not represent us,” Mansour said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Biden campaign did not return a request for comment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976676\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2560px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976676\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-scaled.jpg 2560w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-800x600.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-1020x765.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-2048x1536.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/IMG_3182-1920x1440.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Aguilar (left) said ‘opposing the genocide’ in Gaza is ‘core to her values as a socialist.’ \u003ccite>(Juan Carlos Lara/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This story will be updated.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Local Jewish groups invited two survivors of the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel to speak at the Congregation Emanu-El synagogue in San Francisco on Thursday night.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sponsored by the Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area, the Jewish Agency for Israel and the Jewish Community Federation, the event was mostly attended by members of the Bay Area Jewish community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maayan Barkai and Elad Kidar were both residents of Kibbutz Be’eri, a cooperative living settlement in southern Israel, just a few miles from the Gaza Strip, when dozens of Hamas fighters stormed the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Matt Levin, synagogue member\"]‘Both spoke about their sense of hope and optimism and how they’re helping their children move forward in the face of tragedy. That was humbling to hear. Heartbreaking to hear.’[/pullquote]Kidar said his mom, who was jogging outside of the kibbutz, said she’d been shot at, and then the call ended. “I tried to call her again, but there was no answer.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kidar and his wife took two of their kids to their bomb shelter and began texting their two other sons, who were staying at an aunt’s house.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“All this time, they text us, ‘Come and take us, we love you, and please don’t die,’” Kidar said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 1 a.m., Kidar said he and his family were loaded onto an armored van for evacuation. He recalled blocking his children’s eyes from the bodies and destruction they passed on their way out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He later learned that his father had been killed and his mother had been kidnapped, but he said the Israeli military suspected she was dead as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barkai’s story was similar. 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And some people, when they couldn’t breathe and went out, the terrorists waited outside and killed them when they tried to escape the flames.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The family waited in their burning home until the coast was clear, then they ran to a neighbor’s house and waited until they were evacuated around 3 a.m. Barkai said he is living in a hotel near the Dead Sea along with the other survivors of the attack. Barkai said he lives in a hotel near the Dead Sea with the other survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"forum_2010101904469,news_11972100,news_11971593\"]“We’re looking forward, we’re looking one step ahead. Our next phase is, in five months from now, we’re going to be [guests] in another kibbutz,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Marco Sermoneta, the consul general of Israel to the Pacific Northwest, said last night that 93 people were killed in Kibbutz Be’eri that day and 23 were kidnapped, though \u003ca href=\"https://www.timesofisrael.com/amid-the-devastation-of-kibbutz-beeri-israel-keeps-pulling-bodies-from-the-rubble/\">some estimates place the casualties above 100\u003c/a>. Across all of Israel, an estimated 1,200 people were killed in the invasion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Israel’s invasion and bombardment of Gaza over the months that have followed have resulted in over 27,000 casualties and more than 66,000 wounded, \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/live-updates-death-toll-gaza-passes-27000-south-106861226#:~:text=CAIRO%20%E2%80%94%20The%20toll%20from%20Israel%27s,territory%27s%20Health%20Ministry%20said%20Thursday\">according to the Gaza Health Ministry.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Matt Levin, a member of the synagogue where the event was held, said the accounts of the two men deeply moved him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Both spoke about their sense of hope and optimism and how they’re helping their children move forward in the face of tragedy,” Levin said. “That was humbling to hear. Heartbreaking to hear.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Adrienne Green, another attendee, shared a similar sentiment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Ellen Brotsky, council member, Jewish Voice for Peace Bay Area\"]‘We are members of the Jewish community who grieve the killing of Israeli civilians and internationals on Oct. 7th AND who refuse to support Israel’s genocide against Palestinians.’[/pullquote]“The thing that sticks out the most to me is that this horrific event happened to these two lovely men, and they still have such strength and resilience and optimism about the future,” Green said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Ellen Brotsky, a Bay Area chapter council member of the Jewish Voice for Peace, which describes itself as a Jewish anti-Zionist organization, \u003c/span>said the event was an attempt by pro-Israel advocacy groups to use the grief of survivors to deflect attention away from what she called “Israel’s current genocide” in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are members of the Jewish community who grieve the killing of Israeli civilians and internationals on October 7th AND who refuse to support Israel’s genocide against Palestinians,” Brotsky said in a written statement. “The families of Israeli hostages are saying they want ‘Everyone for Everyone’ — every hostage and every Palestinian political prisoner freed. 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Eventually, he called for a recess and adjourned a few minutes later.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nearly all of the lawmakers left the floor. Protesters cheered when officials turned off the lights in the chamber, holding up the flashlights on their phones as they continued to sing, which included a lengthy call-and-response chant from the gallery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are Jews and Californians, Assembly members, we call on you to join us in demanding a cease-fire now,” they said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11971602\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11971602\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-800x552.jpg\" alt=\"Several people stand on a balcony waving their phones.\" width=\"800\" height=\"552\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-800x552.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1020x703.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1536x1059.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-2048x1412.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/AP24004020199072-1920x1324.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">After the lights had been turned off, protesters calling for a cease-fire in Gaza use the lights from cell phones to demonstrate during the first day of the California legislative session in Sacramento on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Democratic Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said he supports First Amendment rights but added, “The only real impact from today’s protest is that the Legislature was prevented from doing the people’s work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Thousands of groups come to the Capitol every year to express their diverse viewpoints, but their free-speech actions do not impede the Legislature’s work,” he said. “While this is a tense and difficult moment for communities in California and across the world, our job in the Legislature is to stay focused on the issues we can affect here in our state.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wednesday’s protest was organized by \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-hamas-war-college-protests-c94bb0cd246bcc692de86b76b9b2a8cf\">Jewish Voice for Peace\u003c/a>, IfNotNow and the International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network. Binya Kóatz, a Jewish teacher and artist who lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, said Americans have “not only the right but the responsibility to stop business as usual as long as our country is giving a blank check to Israel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside tag=\"israel, gaza\" label=\"More Related Stories\"]Kóatz said the groups chose to protest at the California Legislature because, while those lawmakers do not control federal money sent to Israel, “we know that state Legislatures have the ear of their national counterparts in California and that getting this body to call for a cease-fire now can put California at the forefront of the national movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s not the first time protesters have called for a cease-fire disrupted events in California’s capital. In November, protesters forced their way inside a Sacramento convention hall and prompted the California Democratic Party to \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-democrats-schiff-porter-lee-senate-endorsement-efab466366b5a3a57d7edea813324390\">cancel some events\u003c/a> during their nominating convention. And last month, Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/california-governor-christmas-tree-lighting-prerecorded-ceremony-7a6688964175a0da32b2a88427ab284c\">canceled an in-person Christmas tree lighting ceremony\u003c/a> after protesters planned an action at the event.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters did not disrupt the state Senate, which held its session as scheduled and included lawmakers giving speeches in memory of former U.S. Sen. 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