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(Read more about the decadeslong conflict from \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/series/1205445976/middle-east-crisis\">NPR’s “Middle East crisis — explained” series\u003c/a>.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bay Area Rabbi Amy Eilberg called the current moment the “elephant in the room” likely to fuel discussions and debates during Passover Seders.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“How do we encourage robust conversation at the Seder about what is on all of our minds and in all of our hearts without descending into relational warfare at the seder table?” \u003ca href=\"https://jweekly.com/2024/04/10/how-to-talk-about-the-elephant-in-the-room-at-this-years-seder/\">Eilberg wrote in a recent opinion column for J. 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And for some, they might have questions prepared to specifically address this conflict, war, from Oct. 7.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Do you expect people at your table to get into current events?\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So one of the beautiful things about Passover is the variety of ages and opinions and views and biases that can be around the table. Historically, my Passover Seders have been peaceful. 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"content": "\u003cp>The first time Zelda Montes heard about Google’s Project Nimbus was about six months ago, even though she had worked at the company since 2022. The project is a $1.2 billion contract to supply Israel with cloud computing services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As someone who’s opposed to the war in Gaza, Montes says she was shocked. This comes at a time when tension over the Israeli conflict is simmering across the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that speaks volumes to just how little people at work actually know about this contract,” Montes says, who worked as a software engineer at YouTube, which Google owns.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes immediately joined a Google employee group called No Tech for Apartheid, which had been organizing around Project Nimbus since 2021. Their goal is for Google to drop its contract with the Israeli government. 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After refusing multiple requests to leave the premises, law enforcement was engaged to remove them to ensure office safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">Project Nimbus and cloud computing\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Google, in partnership with Amazon, \u003ca href=\"https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/inside-google-cloud/google-cloud-selected-to-provide-cloud-services-to-the-state-of-israel\">started contracting\u003c/a> with the Israeli government on Project Nimbus in 2021. Last week, \u003cem>Time\u003c/em> magazine \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6966102/google-contract-israel-defense-ministry-gaza-war/\">obtained an internal company document\u003c/a> that showed Israel’s Ministry of Defense contracted with Google as recently as last month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Google spokesperson says its cloud services support several governments around the world, including Israel. 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They say they fear it could be used in the war in Gaza and be weaponized against Palestinian civilians.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Workers have the right to know how their labor is being used and to have a say in ensuring the technology they build is not used for harm,” the group says in a statement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"edTag\">Worker arrests and firings\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Around noon on the day of the sit-in, Montes says she and other protesters at Google’s New York office unfurled a 15-foot banner down an open staircase that read: “No tech for genocide.” (Israel rejects claims of genocide, saying it’s fighting in self-defense.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They sat around and played the card game Uno until Google security approached them. Montes says they were then told to leave or else they’d be arrested, but it wasn’t until about eight hours later that the police arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 100 protesters showed up. A day later, Google fired Montes and 27 other employees who were part of the No Tech for Apartheid group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is one of the largest mass firings in the tech industry, and it comes as many Silicon Valley companies work with Israel. Some employees say they aren’t comfortable with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers at Amazon and Facebook parent Meta have also \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/10/22/google-amazon-meta-gaza-israel-contracts/\">clashed with their employers\u003c/a> over \u003ca href=\"https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meta-employee-calls-toxic-rules-160852658.html\">speaking out against the war\u003c/a>. 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Montes says she was placed on administrative leave at first but then got an email saying she was terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email says she had “violated Google’s code of conduct” and “policy on harassment, discrimination and retaliation” during the events on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the Google employees who were fired didn’t participate in the protests this week, according to No Tech for Apartheid. Google’s spokesperson says the company has been investigating employees individually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have so far concluded individual investigations that resulted in the termination of employment for 28 employees and will continue to investigate and take action as needed,” the spokesperson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes says the firings are a fear tactic that won’t work. “Workers are agitated, and we’re organized,” she says, and even though she’s been fired, “we’ll keep organizing until this project is dropped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>In all, nine protesters were arrested in California and New York. It wasn’t until the following evening that Google began to fire workers. Montes says she was placed on administrative leave at first but then got an email saying she was terminated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The email says she had “violated Google’s code of conduct” and “policy on harassment, discrimination and retaliation” during the events on Tuesday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Several of the Google employees who were fired didn’t participate in the protests this week, according to No Tech for Apartheid. Google’s spokesperson says the company has been investigating employees individually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We have so far concluded individual investigations that resulted in the termination of employment for 28 employees and will continue to investigate and take action as needed,” the spokesperson says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Montes says the firings are a fear tactic that won’t work. “Workers are agitated, and we’re organized,” she says, and even though she’s been fired, “we’ll keep organizing until this project is dropped.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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And I want you to leave.” After Afaneh calmly argues that she has the First Amendment right to speak, Fisk threatens to call the police but then says, “I don’t prefer to,” and tries again to pull the microphone away from Afaneh, briefly pulling her up several steps.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nearly three-minute confrontation ends after Afaneh threatens legal action, and she and nine other students file out of the yard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the students, who asked to remain anonymous for fear of reprisal, told KQED that as the group walked out, Chemerinsky said they had violated the student code of conduct and threatened to report them all to the state bar association.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The incident is the latest flare-up in a long succession of heated protests and confrontations on UC Berkeley’s campus, which has been a hotbed of student activism and protests since the Israel-Hamas war erupted more than six months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afaneh said the incident had shaken her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No one thought that this woman would put her hands on me,” she told KQED. “I didn’t expect this reaction, of course. [And] I didn’t expect it when it happened. I didn’t even get the chance to talk about Palestine or UC complicity.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Afaneh’s group, Law Students for Justice in Palestine (LSJP), has long demanded that UC Berkeley divest from manufacturing companies that supply weapons to Israel and accuses the school of being complicit in the \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2024/4/7/6-months-of-devastation-in-gaza-war-with-no-sign-of-an-end\">widespread destruction of Gaza\u003c/a>, where more than 33,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks since October, according to Gaza officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group called on their peers to boycott the dinners at the couple’s house, accusing Chemerinsky of aligning with Zionist causes and repeatedly trying to silence pro-Palestinian student activism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s provided no support for Palestinian voices, no support for Muslims, but is very staunchly Zionist,” Afaneh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she argues that Fisk’s aggressive response to her on Tuesday had little to do with her activism but was instead rooted in Islamophobia.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was not attacked because I was speaking about Palestine,” she said. “Quite to the contrary, I was attacked because I was simply a Muslim woman wearing a hijab and a keffiyeh in her home.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following the altercation, LSJP \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/C5m4-4gro1_/?igsh=MTc4MmM1YmI2Ng%3D%3D\">released a statement\u003c/a> demanding that Chemerinsky and Fisk resign and that UC Berkeley divest from the arms manufacturers and create a Palestine Studies program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley, however, said it is standing behind the dean.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Erwin Chemerinsky, dean, UC Berkeley School of Law\"]‘My house is not government property. It’s not on public property. … And the one thing that’s clear is there is no First Amendment right to use somebody else’s house for free speech messages.’[/pullquote]“I am appalled and deeply disturbed by what occurred at Dean Chemerinsky’s home last night,” Chancellor Carol Christ said in a statement on Wednesday. “I have been in touch with him to offer my support and sympathy. While our support for free speech is unwavering, we cannot condone using a social occasion at a person’s private residence as a platform for protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In his own statement released the morning after the incident, Chemerinsky said he was “enormously sad that we have students who are so rude as to come into my home, in my backyard, and use this social occasion for their political agenda.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But he said he and Fisk would not be intimidated and still planned to host the additional scheduled student dinners at their home, albeit with security measures in place. 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We lost so many people during [this] war,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At MCA Bay Area, Darwish said there are programs supporting refugees and community members who have been affected by the war or have family members in war zones, including services like financial assistance, social services, counseling, and mental health services for local Muslims. The goal, he said, is to get people back on their feet and empower them to become self-sustainable after periods of hardship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Samer Darwish, president of Bay Area’s Muslim Community Association (MCA Bay Area)\"]“This Ramadan, in light of the situation in the Middle East, the community is very emotional. Palestine is on their minds every day, every minute.”[/pullquote]During Ramadan, MCA Bay Area will be hosting Iftars at sunset for the community to break their fast from Monday to Thursday. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>During Ramadan, MCA Bay Area will be hosting Iftars at sunset for the community to break their fast from Monday to Thursday. People of all faiths are welcome to join in, Darwish said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But with the devastation in Gaza happening thousands of miles away, these gatherings will take on a somber tone, he said — and that the suffering in Gaza will now be felt even more keenly during Ramadan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One big reason for that, Darwish said: As people in the Bay Area fast throughout this month, they are still able to eat at the end of the day but will do so in the knowledge that many in Gaza \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-destroying-gazas-food-system-starvation-tactic-un-expert-says-2024-03-07/\">are suffering from starvation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This Ramadan, in light of the situation in the Middle East, the community is very emotional,” Darwish said. “Palestine is on their minds every day, every minute.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘The entire Muslim community is hurting’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Attacks on Palestinian Muslims during Ramadan are not new — for example when \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/4/5/al-aqsa-mosque-compound-and-recurrent-ramadan-tensions\">Israeli forces attacked worshippers at Al-Aqsa mosque in East Jerusalem\u003c/a> during Ramadan in 2023. But \u003ca href=\"https://time.com/6696507/palestinian-death-toll-gaza-israel-hamas/\">the scale of the death toll and destruction in Gaza since Oct. 7\u003c/a> has been the worst in recent history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/12/uk-places-sanctions-on-israeli-settlers-for-forcing-palestinians-from-their-land\">Attacks on Palestinians have also been perpetrated by Israeli settlers in other parts of the region\u003c/a>, including the West Bank.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our heart bleeds for our brothers and sisters in Gaza and other parts of Palestine that are suffering and being attacked,” said Athar Siddiqee, chairman of the board of South Bay Islamic Association (SBIA). A Silicon Valley executive, Siddiqee has lived in the Bay Area since the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While Ramadan is a time for physical and spiritual cleansing, Siddiqee said a big part of the spirit of the holy month is community and charity work. And for Muslims, he said, it’s a requirement to donate a percentage of our earnings to charity every year during Ramadan, as the spiritual reward is believed to be multiplied immensely during this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.’[/pullquote]“Doors were broken open and the protesters gained unauthorized entry to the building,” they said. “The event was canceled, and the building was evacuated to protect the speaker and members of the audience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>University campuses have been a \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinian-hamas-college-protest-tulane-29dca6e670639b73f5bfe7bfcf6befee\">hotbed of protest activity\u003c/a> surrounding the \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/hub/israel-hamas-war\">Israel-Hamas war\u003c/a>, which began following Hamas’ \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-hamas-rockets-airstrikes-tel-aviv-11fb98655c256d54ecb5329284fc37d2\">deadly Oct. 7 attack\u003c/a> on Israel. 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And we didn’t expect them to be so angry and so vicious that they banged on the glass doors of Zellerbach playhouse to the point that they shattered.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The event had been moved to Zellerbach because it was believed to be more secure than the original location, and a team of university police had been sent there. But it wasn’t possible to ensure student safety and that the event could go forward “given the size of the crowd and the threat of violence,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears for Palestine, in a subsequent statement, said it was “unfortunate” that a window had been broken during the protest, but described it as an isolated incident out of step with the group’s “intent on prioritizing community safety and explicit instructions of non-violent protest.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The group said that when the university was notified of plans for the protest, it “preemptively heavily militarized the event location with at least 20 armed UCPD officers, who used excessive force to barricade the building and barre pro-Palestinian entry.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bears for Palestine called Yoshafat “a dangerous war criminal” and accused the university of protecting him “at the cost of student safety.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was “an exemplary act of UC Berkeley upholding their values of deeply systemic anti-Palestinian racism that permeates within this institution,” the group said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UC Berkeley spokesperson Dan Mogulof said Wednesday that the university has opened a formal criminal investigation and has initiated its student code-of-conduct process.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside label=\"Related Stories\" postID=\"news_11969165,news_11972999,news_11972100\"]“We’ve had four formal reports made to our police department,” Mogulof said. “We’ve opened that criminal investigation because we believe there should be consequences for the kind of behavior that we saw on Monday night.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An allegation of battery along with antisemitic slurs is being investigated as a hate crime, Mogulof said. A second report alleges a victim was spit at and kicked. A third alleges battery, and the fourth alleges the victim was injured in a scuffle while attempting to hold a door closed. The injuries were described as minor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>None of the alleged assailants have been identified, Mogulof said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s what the investigation is about,” he said. “All of the video will be reviewed. Social media posts will be reviewed. Unfortunately, most of the protesters were masked.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There were not sufficient police resources to make arrests at the scene, he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Christ and Hermalin said they respect the right to protest “as intrinsic to the values of democracy and an institution of higher education” but cannot ignore protests that interfere with the rights of others to hear and express their own perspectives.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s Alex Emslie contributed reporting to this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"title": "'Do Whatever It Takes': California's Palestinian Americans Seek Safety for Loved Ones in Gaza",
"headTitle": "‘Do Whatever It Takes’: California’s Palestinian Americans Seek Safety for Loved Ones in Gaza | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>[dropcap]O[/dropcap]ne day in October 2023, Rolla Alaydi woke up in her home in Pacific Grove, outside Monterey — and found that overnight, she had become responsible for the lives of 21 members of her family in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because for them, I’m the only one in the U.S.,” Alaydi said. “I’m their only hope for them to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi’s four younger brothers and their families — with 13 children between them — are currently in Gaza, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">Israeli forces have bombarded for nearly five months now\u003c/a>. Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Israel’s siege on Gaza has resulted in a Palestinian \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-79-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem\">death toll topping 28,000 and over 68,000 wounded\u003c/a>, according to Gazan health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those who have survived so far, their lives have been forever altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been completely uprooted, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-79-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem\">75% of Gaza’s population displaced\u003c/a>. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225250933/gaza-rafah-tents-shortage\">a quarter of Gazans do not have a home\u003c/a> to return to after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.conflict-damage.org/\">estimated 54% to 66% of buildings\u003c/a> in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed, according to researchers from Oregon State University and City University of New York. These buildings include Alaydi’s family home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1067px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in a graduate gown and standing next to a flag with red, white, black and green.\" width=\"1067\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01.jpg 1067w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi graduates from the \u003cem>University\u003c/em> of the \u003cem>Incarnate Word\u003c/em> in 2016. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Israel’s military assault on Gaza began, Alaydi’s family has been displaced multiple times, she said. First, they were forced to flee their family home in North Gaza where they all lived — where one of her brothers planted olive trees, where another planned on opening his own law firm for his community — when it was destroyed by artillery. In the desperate rush, they were unable to grab any documentation like passports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225250933/gaza-rafah-tents-shortage\"> the family is living in a tent in South Gaza\u003c/a> near Rafah’s Crossing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/14/1231310479/rafah-cease-fire-gaza-israel-hamas-cairo\">An area at the border of Gaza and Egypt, which has recently been under attack by Israeli authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are not killed by a missile, the starvation is hunting them,” Alaydi said — along with disease because of the unsanitary conditions in such camps. “Death is chasing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1581px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two small children look at the tool and can in their hands.\" width=\"1581\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut.jpg 1581w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1581px) 100vw, 1581px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ola and Hayah, the nieces of Rolla Alaydi, in Gaza in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Do whatever it takes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi is not alone. Around the wider Bay Area, the state and around the globe, the Palestinian diaspora is scrambling to find legal options to help their families in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when family members aren’t U.S. citizens — as Alaydi’s aren’t — one of those options is through immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi herself was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza, and has lived in California for six years after coming to the United States as a Master’s student in Texas. Now, she is currently working with an attorney with hopes of securing \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for her family. This temporary emergency immigration status allows certain family members to enter the U.S., and while the legal help she’s receiving is pro-bono, Alaydi is also privately fundraising to cover costs such as filing fees and travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1152px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small child with a cartoon embroidered on their grey shirt looks up on a beach.\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-1097x1536.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ola, the niece of Rolla Alaydi, in Gaza in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The minute I put my head in the pillow, I just see their faces,” Alaydi said through tears. “And they are just calling me for help and [to] rescue them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Alaydi’s brothers, Musbah, is diabetic and has gone without access to insulin for months now, she said. Her youngest brother Hammam, age 26, was diagnosed with stage one cancer before Israel’s attacks on Gaza began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammam resisted leaving Gaza at first, Alaydi said, telling her he was going to die. And then, changing his mind, he left Alaydi a voice message one day: “‘Do whatever it takes,” he told her. “I want to get out from Gaza. I want to live. Life is precious.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Rolla Alaydi\"]‘The minute I put my head in the pillow, I just see their faces’[/pullquote]Nightmares and guilt eat at her, said Alaydi — when she checks the news, when she sleeps, when she eats a meal in the knowledge that her family in Gaza barely gets one meal a day. The stress, she said, has driven her to the emergency room three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just miss them,” Alaydi said. “I just want to be with them and just give them a big, warm hug and just to hold them — like they are going to be okay and they will survive this, and I will see them, Inshallah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt his fear to my bones’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Alaydi, San Francisco resident Mama Ganuush — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">an African Palestinian advocate and drag artist \u003c/a>— also has multiple extended family members still trapped in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include the surviving family of their cousin Mohamed, who Ganuush said \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/21/idf-executed-palestinian-men-in-front-of-their-families-un-confirms\">was killed during a mid-December Israeli attack on a residential neighborhood\u003c/a>. Watching Al Jazeera coverage of the attack, Ganuush said they glimpsed their cousin’s face, “thrown dead between dead bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two hands hold an earring with a circular element with the word \"Palestine\" written on it.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush holds their Palestinian coin earring at their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt his fear to my bones,” Ganuush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush has been writing testimonies about these family members, about their lives and deaths, to various courts — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973881/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland\">the United States case in Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/gaza-icj-ruling-offers-hope-protection-civilians-enduring-apocalyptic#:~:text=The%20ICJ%20found%20it%20plausible,under%20siege%20in%20Gaza%2C%20and\">the United Nations’ International Court of Justice\u003c/a> — to advocate for a cease-fire in Gaza and detail potential war crimes committed by the Israeli government. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218927939/un-general-assembly-gaza-israel-resolution-cease-fire-us\">Despite U.S. opposition\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218927939/un-general-assembly-gaza-israel-resolution-cease-fire-us\">U.N. voted for a cease-fire on Dec. 12.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to Mohamed, Ganuush said their words were intended to show that their cousin had “a whole life”: His college years in Arizona and his long-standing desire to start his own family. But it is “exhausting” work, Ganuush said, “[writing] down the details for the U.N, or for someone to help his wife … and his children get out of Gaza because of what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t need to explain to people that he’s a human by telling them these stories,” Ganuush said through sobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Ganuush is also working with an attorney to help Mohamed’s widow — who is suffering from her own injuries, with almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227388681/gaza-largest-hospital-collapse-doctors-without-borders-nasser\">no medical infrastructure left to aid her\u003c/a> — and her children make it out of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Out of the danger zone’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Palestinian Americans who \u003ci>do \u003c/i>have citizenship have also struggled to leave Gaza. This situation prompted San Francisco lawyer Ghassan Shamieh to sue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966303/san-francisco-law-firm-sues-biden-administration-in-push-to-immediately-evacuate-palestinian-americans-stuck-in-gaza\">the Biden administration in November for violating the civil rights of its citizens\u003c/a>, saying the government failed to quickly evacuate Palestinian Americans from Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was ultimately withdrawn after Shamieh’s clients — whose situation had prompted the lawsuit — could leave the region and reach the U.S. One client remains in Egypt to care for her now-orphaned nieces and nephews, who are not U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds a megaphone with stickers including the Palestinian flag on it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush holds a megaphone they use during protests in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, this lawsuit was just one example of lawyers across the country organizing together on this issue. \u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/page/immigration/\">Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians\u003c/a> is a national collaboration of over a hundred volunteer attorneys working on outreach, immigration and humanitarian options for Palestinians and U.S. citizens with family in Gaza, headquartered out of the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of attorneys started looking towards each other to say, ‘Okay, we have decades and decades and decades of this experience,’” said Los Angeles-based Ban Al-Wardi, one of these volunteer attorneys. “Not just with the Palestinian community, but with so many Arab and Muslim communities” who have experienced war, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the U.S.-based fight for people trapped in Gaza has a special precedent, Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians coordinator Amria Ahmed said — because the formation of Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians itself was modeled off a similar collaboration aiding Afghans in 2021 called \u003ca href=\"https://www.projectanar.org/\">Project ANAR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 200 legal professionals answered Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians’ original call for volunteers back in November, Ahmed said — bringing over 200 clients and their extended families with them. The requests for help come from the U.S., Gaza, or countries where Gazans fled, such as Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said that many of the calls to the group come from community members “trying to understand how to get their family out of the danger zone as fast as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Always been a hurdle’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether a Palestinian is a U.S. citizen or not, one of the greatest barriers they’ll face in being able to physically leave Gaza is the need for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-border-authority-says-rafah-crossing-open-only-listed-egyptians-foreigners-2023-11-06/\">their names to be on a list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gazans are now unable to go to Jerusalem’s embassy and are exiting through \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1210897789/rafah-crossing-gaza-egypt-israel-hamas-war\">Rafah’s crossing, which borders Egypt\u003c/a>, Al-Wardi said. And in order for a Palestinian in Gaza to leave the area, they must have their name added to a crossing’s list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “getting permission from the Israeli government to exit from any area within the Palestinian territories has always been a hurdle, and a barrier for people to have freedom of movement,” Al-Wardi said. (\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-egypt-wall-07a40fddeaf9dbc82c2a33e1f1614419\">Recent satellite images show that Egypt is now building a wall\u003c/a> after Israel’s attack on Rafah.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department, the Egyptian government and the Israeli government are all involved in adding a name to the list, San Francisco lawyer Shamieh said. But “because there are so many different parties who are involved,” he said, “it’s difficult to really get to the bottom of who really is responsible for this evacuation list.” (\u003ca href=\"https://mytravel.state.gov/s/crisis-intake\">The U.S. government previously did have a crisis intake form\u003c/a>, which has since been taken down.)\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg?ver=1698969062\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966268\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a beard and wearing a suit speaks at a bank of microphones in front of a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Ghassan J. Shamieh announces the filing of a lawsuit against the Biden administration to ensure the safe evacuation of US citizens from the Gaza Strip in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said some U.S. citizens \u003ci>have \u003c/i>been able to cross into Egypt. But those who have not, she said, have received little help from the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials told her that the U.S. can only suggest that names be added to the list, Ahmed said. “That’s very perplexing,” she said: “The government of the United States of America, saying that its hands are tied with respect to their own U.S. citizens being able to leave the war zone of Gaza to enter into Egypt safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Egypt and Israel are two countries that are not hostile countries to the U.S. They are allies and friends,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20For%20the,Gaza%20under%20increasing%20international%20criticism.\">adding that the U.S. also provides millions of dollars in funds to Israel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/us/politics/egypt-biden-military-aid.html#:~:text=Prioritizing%20U.S.%20national%20security%20interests,of%20the%20country's%20repressive%20policies.\">Egypt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the group’s U.S. citizen clients was stuck in Gaza for two months, Ahmed said — because although his wife and daughters were on the crossing list, he wasn’t. “That’s not something that any American should accept,” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Seeing disparate treatment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Palestinian Americans with family in Gaza who aren’t U.S. citizens, exploring family immigration visas is one avenue. However, the application process has a long backlog. Sometimes, the U.S. citizen will be required to travel to Egypt to meet their Palestinian family in person, Ahmed said — that is if that family member can even make it across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another route is humanitarian parole — which Shamieh describes as a “long, expensive process” — when a person outside the U.S. requests to be brought into the country on special humanitarian grounds such as a medical emergency. Often, these are family-based petitions, “which can be rather quick if the relationship [to the U.S. citizen] is close enough,” Shamieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"San Francisco lawyer Ghassan Shamieh\"]‘Immigration attorneys across the country are saddened because, again, we’re seeing disparate treatment’[/pullquote]Then there’s the possibility of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a> (TPS): A designation from the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security for certain foreign countries “due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely.” According to the U.S. government, these conditions include “Ongoing armed conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This status allows people to stay in the United States for an extended period of time, with a work permit and social security — meaning they would not be considered undocumented. And TPS, Shamieh said, is based on the United States’s own list of countries that “they add and remove as they see fit” — nations whose residents have “suffered from natural disasters to an extent that is unimaginable, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-haiti\">Haiti\u003c/a>,” he noted. “Or if there is extreme civil unrest, like in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/afghanistan\">Afghanistan when the Taliban took ove\u003c/a>r — or in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ukraine\">Ukraine when the war broke out.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after months, Israel began its military campaign against Gaza, no such program — through TPS or otherwise — has been created for Gazans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration attorneys across the country are saddened because, again, we’re seeing disparate treatment,” Shamieh said: “From not just American citizens by our government, but disparate treatment for different nationalities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11972100 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/IMG_7300-1020x680.jpeg']He notes that when Russia invaded Ukraine, “the [U.S.] government was very quick to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine\">Uniting for Ukraine\u003c/a>” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/uniting-for-ukraine/frequently-asked-questions-about-uniting-for-ukraine\">a temporary parole program \u003c/a>that is available in addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/TPS-Ukraine\">the now-extended TPS option for Ukrainians\u003c/a>. But for Gazans, “we are not seeing that equal level of treatment,” Shamieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed, Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians coordinator, said that Arab American lawyers have held individual meetings with members of the Biden administration and learned that officials would not, in fact, designate Palestinians for TPS and have instead opted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/biden-order-shields-palestinians-deportation\">defer the deportation of 6,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> in the United States for 18 months, as announced Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers who make up Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians say they are now lobbying the U.S. government to create a program similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine\">Uniting for Ukraine\u003c/a> for people in Gaza. Ahmed said that to her group, the violence Gazans are facing — “violence that’s been called ethnic cleansing,” she said — is a “clear-cut example of a case where it merits a TPS designation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it could be done for one nationality, why can’t it be done for another?” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“I feel like my politicians failed me.”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">Seeking assistance from politicians\u003c/a> has been another way to get their family’s plight recognized. San Francisco’s Mama Ganuush reached out to California Sen. Alex Padilla’s office seeking help for their extended family trapped in Gaza or a statement supporting a cease-fire. Padilla replied with an email saying he “strongly support[ed] Israel’s right to defend itself and the Administration’s swift action to provide support for our ally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush also contacted Nancy Pelosi’s office for assistance. After an initial response stating that her representatives would reach out to the state department about possibly getting their family’s names onto the Rafah crossing list, Ganuush said they hadn’t heard anything back since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[pullquote size=\"medium\" align=\"right\" citation=\"Mama Ganuush\"]‘They just want to escape the killing — until they’re able to go back safely’[/pullquote]“I feel like my politicians failed me,” Ganuush said, referring to the fact that the California officials, as well as the Biden administration, have shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225748334/biden-netanyahu-two-state-solution-2024#:~:text=Biden's%20commitment%20to%20Israel%20has,left%20some%201%2C200%20Israelis%20dead.\">mostly unwavering support for the Israeli military during the siege and that repeated calls for a cease-fire in the Middle East have not been met.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a cease-fire were to take place, Ganuush stressed that their family would not necessarily “need to leave Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to just go home or have safety and have some sort of source of food for their children,” Ganuush said. “They just want to escape the killing — until they’re able to go back safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Bay Area’s Rolla Alaydi, her role as the eldest sibling drives her to continue fighting for the lives of her loved ones in Gaza. “[I’m] going to do whatever it takes just to save their lives and save the lives of my little nieces and nephews,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The lawyers] are very, very supportive, very dedicated people. The only thing that I’m fearing [is the] time … Time is very important. And I’m afraid. My family will survive today, but I don’t know if they’re going to survive tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class=\"utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__dropcapShortcode__dropcap\">O\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>ne day in October 2023, Rolla Alaydi woke up in her home in Pacific Grove, outside Monterey — and found that overnight, she had become responsible for the lives of 21 members of her family in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Because for them, I’m the only one in the U.S.,” Alaydi said. “I’m their only hope for them to survive.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi’s four younger brothers and their families — with 13 children between them — are currently in Gaza, which \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/gaza/\">Israeli forces have bombarded for nearly five months now\u003c/a>. Since the Oct. 7 attack by Hamas, Israel’s siege on Gaza has resulted in a Palestinian \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-79-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem\">death toll topping 28,000 and over 68,000 wounded\u003c/a>, according to Gazan health officials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And for those who have survived so far, their lives have been forever altered.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tens of thousands of Palestinians have been completely uprooted, with over \u003ca href=\"https://www.unrwa.org/resources/reports/unrwa-situation-report-79-situation-gaza-strip-and-west-bank-including-east-Jerusalem\">75% of Gaza’s population displaced\u003c/a>. Nearly \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225250933/gaza-rafah-tents-shortage\">a quarter of Gazans do not have a home\u003c/a> to return to after an \u003ca href=\"https://www.conflict-damage.org/\">estimated 54% to 66% of buildings\u003c/a> in the Gaza Strip have been damaged or destroyed, according to researchers from Oregon State University and City University of New York. These buildings include Alaydi’s family home.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976514\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1067px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976514\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01.jpg\" alt=\"A woman dressed in a graduate gown and standing next to a flag with red, white, black and green.\" width=\"1067\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01.jpg 1067w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-01-160x114.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1067px) 100vw, 1067px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rolla Alaydi graduates from the \u003cem>University\u003c/em> of the \u003cem>Incarnate Word\u003c/em> in 2016. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Israel’s military assault on Gaza began, Alaydi’s family has been displaced multiple times, she said. First, they were forced to flee their family home in North Gaza where they all lived — where one of her brothers planted olive trees, where another planned on opening his own law firm for his community — when it was destroyed by artillery. In the desperate rush, they were unable to grab any documentation like passports.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now,\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/19/1225250933/gaza-rafah-tents-shortage\"> the family is living in a tent in South Gaza\u003c/a> near Rafah’s Crossing: \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/02/14/1231310479/rafah-cease-fire-gaza-israel-hamas-cairo\">An area at the border of Gaza and Egypt, which has recently been under attack by Israeli authorities\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If they are not killed by a missile, the starvation is hunting them,” Alaydi said — along with disease because of the unsanitary conditions in such camps. “Death is chasing them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976515\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1581px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976515\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut.jpg\" alt=\"Two small children look at the tool and can in their hands.\" width=\"1581\" height=\"1129\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut.jpg 1581w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-800x571.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-1020x728.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-160x114.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-02_qut-1536x1097.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1581px) 100vw, 1581px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ola and Hayah, the nieces of Rolla Alaydi, in Gaza in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>‘Do whatever it takes’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Alaydi is not alone. Around the wider Bay Area, the state and around the globe, the Palestinian diaspora is scrambling to find legal options to help their families in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And when family members aren’t U.S. citizens — as Alaydi’s aren’t — one of those options is through immigration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alaydi herself was born in a refugee camp in central Gaza, and has lived in California for six years after coming to the United States as a Master’s student in Texas. Now, she is currently working with an attorney with hopes of securing \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/humanitarian_parole\">humanitarian parole\u003c/a> for her family. This temporary emergency immigration status allows certain family members to enter the U.S., and while the legal help she’s receiving is pro-bono, Alaydi is also privately fundraising to cover costs such as filing fees and travel.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11976516\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1152px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11976516\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut.jpg\" alt=\"A small child with a cartoon embroidered on their grey shirt looks up on a beach.\" width=\"1152\" height=\"1613\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-800x1120.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-1020x1428.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-160x224.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240130-GazaImmigrationEDITS-03_qut-1097x1536.jpg 1097w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1152px) 100vw, 1152px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ola, the niece of Rolla Alaydi, in Gaza in January 2024. \u003ccite>(Photo courtesy of Rolla Alaydi)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“The minute I put my head in the pillow, I just see their faces,” Alaydi said through tears. “And they are just calling me for help and [to] rescue them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of Alaydi’s brothers, Musbah, is diabetic and has gone without access to insulin for months now, she said. Her youngest brother Hammam, age 26, was diagnosed with stage one cancer before Israel’s attacks on Gaza began.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hammam resisted leaving Gaza at first, Alaydi said, telling her he was going to die. And then, changing his mind, he left Alaydi a voice message one day: “‘Do whatever it takes,” he told her. “I want to get out from Gaza. I want to live. Life is precious.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Nightmares and guilt eat at her, said Alaydi — when she checks the news, when she sleeps, when she eats a meal in the knowledge that her family in Gaza barely gets one meal a day. The stress, she said, has driven her to the emergency room three times.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I just miss them,” Alaydi said. “I just want to be with them and just give them a big, warm hug and just to hold them — like they are going to be okay and they will survive this, and I will see them, Inshallah.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘I felt his fear to my bones’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Like Alaydi, San Francisco resident Mama Ganuush — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11969701/this-is-resistance-how-queer-palestinian-artists-and-activists-in-the-bay-area-are-making-themselves-heard\">an African Palestinian advocate and drag artist \u003c/a>— also has multiple extended family members still trapped in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>These include the surviving family of their cousin Mohamed, who Ganuush said \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/21/idf-executed-palestinian-men-in-front-of-their-families-un-confirms\">was killed during a mid-December Israeli attack on a residential neighborhood\u003c/a>. Watching Al Jazeera coverage of the attack, Ganuush said they glimpsed their cousin’s face, “thrown dead between dead bodies.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974265\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974265\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt='Two hands hold an earring with a circular element with the word \"Palestine\" written on it.' width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-01-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush holds their Palestinian coin earring at their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I felt his fear to my bones,” Ganuush said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush has been writing testimonies about these family members, about their lives and deaths, to various courts — including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11973881/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland\">the United States case in Oakland\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/01/gaza-icj-ruling-offers-hope-protection-civilians-enduring-apocalyptic#:~:text=The%20ICJ%20found%20it%20plausible,under%20siege%20in%20Gaza%2C%20and\">the United Nations’ International Court of Justice\u003c/a> — to advocate for a cease-fire in Gaza and detail potential war crimes committed by the Israeli government. (\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218927939/un-general-assembly-gaza-israel-resolution-cease-fire-us\">Despite U.S. opposition\u003c/a>, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/12/12/1218927939/un-general-assembly-gaza-israel-resolution-cease-fire-us\">U.N. voted for a cease-fire on Dec. 12.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When it came to Mohamed, Ganuush said their words were intended to show that their cousin had “a whole life”: His college years in Arizona and his long-standing desire to start his own family. But it is “exhausting” work, Ganuush said, “[writing] down the details for the U.N, or for someone to help his wife … and his children get out of Gaza because of what happened.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t need to explain to people that he’s a human by telling them these stories,” Ganuush said through sobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, Ganuush is also working with an attorney to help Mohamed’s widow — who is suffering from her own injuries, with almost \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/27/1227388681/gaza-largest-hospital-collapse-doctors-without-borders-nasser\">no medical infrastructure left to aid her\u003c/a> — and her children make it out of Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Out of the danger zone’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many Palestinian Americans who \u003ci>do \u003c/i>have citizenship have also struggled to leave Gaza. This situation prompted San Francisco lawyer Ghassan Shamieh to sue \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11966303/san-francisco-law-firm-sues-biden-administration-in-push-to-immediately-evacuate-palestinian-americans-stuck-in-gaza\">the Biden administration in November for violating the civil rights of its citizens\u003c/a>, saying the government failed to quickly evacuate Palestinian Americans from Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lawsuit was ultimately withdrawn after Shamieh’s clients — whose situation had prompted the lawsuit — could leave the region and reach the U.S. One client remains in Egypt to care for her now-orphaned nieces and nephews, who are not U.S. citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974267\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974267\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person holds a megaphone with stickers including the Palestinian flag on it.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GAZAIMMIGRATION-09-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mama Ganuush holds a megaphone they use during protests in their home in San Francisco on Jan. 26, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>However, this lawsuit was just one example of lawyers across the country organizing together on this issue. \u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/page/immigration/\">Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians\u003c/a> is a national collaboration of over a hundred volunteer attorneys working on outreach, immigration and humanitarian options for Palestinians and U.S. citizens with family in Gaza, headquartered out of the Bay Area’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.araborganizing.org/\">Arab Resource and Organizing Center\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of attorneys started looking towards each other to say, ‘Okay, we have decades and decades and decades of this experience,’” said Los Angeles-based Ban Al-Wardi, one of these volunteer attorneys. “Not just with the Palestinian community, but with so many Arab and Muslim communities” who have experienced war, she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And the U.S.-based fight for people trapped in Gaza has a special precedent, Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians coordinator Amria Ahmed said — because the formation of Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians itself was modeled off a similar collaboration aiding Afghans in 2021 called \u003ca href=\"https://www.projectanar.org/\">Project ANAR\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 200 legal professionals answered Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians’ original call for volunteers back in November, Ahmed said — bringing over 200 clients and their extended families with them. The requests for help come from the U.S., Gaza, or countries where Gazans fled, such as Turkey, Jordan, and Egypt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said that many of the calls to the group come from community members “trying to understand how to get their family out of the danger zone as fast as possible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Always been a hurdle’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Whether a Palestinian is a U.S. citizen or not, one of the greatest barriers they’ll face in being able to physically leave Gaza is the need for \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/gaza-border-authority-says-rafah-crossing-open-only-listed-egyptians-foreigners-2023-11-06/\">their names to be on a list\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gazans are now unable to go to Jerusalem’s embassy and are exiting through \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2023/11/07/1210897789/rafah-crossing-gaza-egypt-israel-hamas-war\">Rafah’s crossing, which borders Egypt\u003c/a>, Al-Wardi said. And in order for a Palestinian in Gaza to leave the area, they must have their name added to a crossing’s list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, “getting permission from the Israeli government to exit from any area within the Palestinian territories has always been a hurdle, and a barrier for people to have freedom of movement,” Al-Wardi said. (\u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-gaza-egypt-wall-07a40fddeaf9dbc82c2a33e1f1614419\">Recent satellite images show that Egypt is now building a wall\u003c/a> after Israel’s attack on Rafah.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. State Department, the Egyptian government and the Israeli government are all involved in adding a name to the list, San Francisco lawyer Shamieh said. But “because there are so many different parties who are involved,” he said, “it’s difficult to really get to the bottom of who really is responsible for this evacuation list.” (\u003ca href=\"https://mytravel.state.gov/s/crisis-intake\">The U.S. government previously did have a crisis intake form\u003c/a>, which has since been taken down.)\u003ci>\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11966268\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg?ver=1698969062\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11966268\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with a beard and wearing a suit speaks at a bank of microphones in front of a large building.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/11/230211-GAZA-LAWSUIT-MD-01-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Attorney Ghassan J. Shamieh announces the filing of a lawsuit against the Biden administration to ensure the safe evacuation of US citizens from the Gaza Strip in front of the Phillip Burton Federal Building in San Francisco on Nov. 2, 2023. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ahmed said some U.S. citizens \u003ci>have \u003c/i>been able to cross into Egypt. But those who have not, she said, have received little help from the U.S. government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Government officials told her that the U.S. can only suggest that names be added to the list, Ahmed said. “That’s very perplexing,” she said: “The government of the United States of America, saying that its hands are tied with respect to their own U.S. citizens being able to leave the war zone of Gaza to enter into Egypt safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Egypt and Israel are two countries that are not hostile countries to the U.S. They are allies and friends,” she said, \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-gaza-arms-hamas-bypass-congress-1dc77f20aac4a797df6a2338b677da4f#:~:text=WASHINGTON%20(AP)%20%E2%80%94%20For%20the,Gaza%20under%20increasing%20international%20criticism.\">adding that the U.S. also provides millions of dollars in funds to Israel\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/14/us/politics/egypt-biden-military-aid.html#:~:text=Prioritizing%20U.S.%20national%20security%20interests,of%20the%20country's%20repressive%20policies.\">Egypt\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the group’s U.S. citizen clients was stuck in Gaza for two months, Ahmed said — because although his wife and daughters were on the crossing list, he wasn’t. “That’s not something that any American should accept,” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>‘Seeing disparate treatment’\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>For Palestinian Americans with family in Gaza who aren’t U.S. citizens, exploring family immigration visas is one avenue. However, the application process has a long backlog. Sometimes, the U.S. citizen will be required to travel to Egypt to meet their Palestinian family in person, Ahmed said — that is if that family member can even make it across the border.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another route is humanitarian parole — which Shamieh describes as a “long, expensive process” — when a person outside the U.S. requests to be brought into the country on special humanitarian grounds such as a medical emergency. Often, these are family-based petitions, “which can be rather quick if the relationship [to the U.S. citizen] is close enough,” Shamieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Then there’s the possibility of \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status\">Temporary Protected Status\u003c/a> (TPS): A designation from the U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security for certain foreign countries “due to conditions in the country that temporarily prevent the country’s nationals from returning safely.” According to the U.S. government, these conditions include “Ongoing armed conflict.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This status allows people to stay in the United States for an extended period of time, with a work permit and social security — meaning they would not be considered undocumented. And TPS, Shamieh said, is based on the United States’s own list of countries that “they add and remove as they see fit” — nations whose residents have “suffered from natural disasters to an extent that is unimaginable, like \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/temporary-protected-status-designated-country-haiti\">Haiti\u003c/a>,” he noted. “Or if there is extreme civil unrest, like in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/afghanistan\">Afghanistan when the Taliban took ove\u003c/a>r — or in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ukraine\">Ukraine when the war broke out.\u003c/a>”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>However, after months, Israel began its military campaign against Gaza, no such program — through TPS or otherwise — has been created for Gazans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Immigration attorneys across the country are saddened because, again, we’re seeing disparate treatment,” Shamieh said: “From not just American citizens by our government, but disparate treatment for different nationalities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>He notes that when Russia invaded Ukraine, “the [U.S.] government was very quick to adopt \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine\">Uniting for Ukraine\u003c/a>” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/uniting-for-ukraine/frequently-asked-questions-about-uniting-for-ukraine\">a temporary parole program \u003c/a>that is available in addition to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/temporary-protected-status/TPS-Ukraine\">the now-extended TPS option for Ukrainians\u003c/a>. But for Gazans, “we are not seeing that equal level of treatment,” Shamieh said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ahmed, Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians coordinator, said that Arab American lawyers have held individual meetings with members of the Biden administration and learned that officials would not, in fact, designate Palestinians for TPS and have instead opted to \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/feb/14/biden-order-shields-palestinians-deportation\">defer the deportation of 6,000 Palestinians\u003c/a> in the United States for 18 months, as announced Feb. 14.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The volunteers who make up Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians say they are now lobbying the U.S. government to create a program similar to \u003ca href=\"https://www.uscis.gov/ukraine\">Uniting for Ukraine\u003c/a> for people in Gaza. Ahmed said that to her group, the violence Gazans are facing — “violence that’s been called ethnic cleansing,” she said — is a “clear-cut example of a case where it merits a TPS designation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If it could be done for one nationality, why can’t it be done for another?” Ahmed said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>“I feel like my politicians failed me.”\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11967439/how-can-i-call-my-representative-a-step-by-step-guide-to-the-process\">Seeking assistance from politicians\u003c/a> has been another way to get their family’s plight recognized. San Francisco’s Mama Ganuush reached out to California Sen. Alex Padilla’s office seeking help for their extended family trapped in Gaza or a statement supporting a cease-fire. Padilla replied with an email saying he “strongly support[ed] Israel’s right to defend itself and the Administration’s swift action to provide support for our ally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ganuush also contacted Nancy Pelosi’s office for assistance. After an initial response stating that her representatives would reach out to the state department about possibly getting their family’s names onto the Rafah crossing list, Ganuush said they hadn’t heard anything back since January.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“I feel like my politicians failed me,” Ganuush said, referring to the fact that the California officials, as well as the Biden administration, have shown \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2024/01/20/1225748334/biden-netanyahu-two-state-solution-2024#:~:text=Biden's%20commitment%20to%20Israel%20has,left%20some%201%2C200%20Israelis%20dead.\">mostly unwavering support for the Israeli military during the siege and that repeated calls for a cease-fire in the Middle East have not been met.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If a cease-fire were to take place, Ganuush stressed that their family would not necessarily “need to leave Palestine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They want to just go home or have safety and have some sort of source of food for their children,” Ganuush said. “They just want to escape the killing — until they’re able to go back safely.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the Bay Area’s Rolla Alaydi, her role as the eldest sibling drives her to continue fighting for the lives of her loved ones in Gaza. “[I’m] going to do whatever it takes just to save their lives and save the lives of my little nieces and nephews,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“[The lawyers] are very, very supportive, very dedicated people. The only thing that I’m fearing [is the] time … Time is very important. And I’m afraid. My family will survive today, but I don’t know if they’re going to survive tomorrow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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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. He said he hid in his bomb shelter with his wife and children, and when the assailants could not get inside, they set his home on fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11974527\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11974527\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240201-OCT-7-SURVIVORS-MD-04-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person with short hair looks out of a window.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240201-OCT-7-SURVIVORS-MD-04-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240201-OCT-7-SURVIVORS-MD-04-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240201-OCT-7-SURVIVORS-MD-04-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240201-OCT-7-SURVIVORS-MD-04-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240201-OCT-7-SURVIVORS-MD-04-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/02/240201-OCT-7-SURVIVORS-MD-04-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Elad Kidar at the Jewish Community Federation in San Francisco on Feb. 1, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“In Be’eri, most of the people were murdered in two major ways,” Barkai said. “Some people were suffocated in the bomb shelters. 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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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> A federal judge in Oakland on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the Biden administration is complicit in genocide against residents in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs in the case sought to block the U.S. government from providing military aid to Israel, arguing in court last Friday that doing so was in violation of international and domestic genocide laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ultimately sided with attorneys for the U.S. government, who argued that the courts lack authority over certain political decisions made by Congress and the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 4 p.m. Friday (Jan. 26)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCrowds of at least 200 people protested outside an Oakland federal courthouse on Friday as attorneys gave arguments in a lawsuit seeking to stop U.S. aid for the Israeli government’s attacks on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights, representing Palestinians in the U.S. and abroad, filed the \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2023/11/Complaint_DCI-Pal-v-Biden_ww.pdf\">lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> in November. They are \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2023/11/PI%20Motion_w.pdf\">seeking a court order (PDF)\u003c/a> to stop U.S. military aid to Israel, arguing it is fueling a genocide against Palestinian people and urging the Biden administration to pursue a cease-fire. On Dec. 8, the federal government responded with a motion to dismiss the case, saying the court had no oversight on foreign policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s single-day hearing laid out arguments from Palestinians and U.S. officials. Plaintiffs argued that by aiding Israel’s military operations in Gaza, the U.S. government has violated international law codified in the 1948 Genocide Convention, as well as the U.S. Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID=news_11964576,news_11972100,forum_2010101904469 label='More on Israel & Gaza']Plaintiffs had seven witnesses call in, including a doctor currently based in Gaza. “Every single one of the testimonies that we heard was gut-wrenching,” Diala Shamas, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White said he would take a hard look at the arguments and evidence and is expected to deliver a decision in the coming weeks. “The question of what he can do is what he’s sitting with,” Shamas said, adding that they are hopeful he will “issue some kind of order to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice, however, argued that the court does not have authority over international policy decisions made by the president and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the court’s role to sit in judgment of U.S. foreign policy decisions concerning the conflict in Gaza or to assess whether Israel has transgressed limits imposed by international law,” Biden’s defense attorneys wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2024/01/64_1-12-24_Govt-reply-MTD_w.pdf\">a court brief (PDF)\u003c/a> this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a concern Judge White had also expressed in the days leading up to the hearing. He questioned what authority the courts have in foreign policy decisions typically decided by other branches of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/26/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland/240126-gazalawsuit-02-bl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973925\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"a large sign hangs from a courthouse building that reads 'we charge Biden with genocide'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold a sign that says, ‘We Charge Biden With Genocide’ outside of the US District Court in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2024, during a court hearing to urge the White House to withdraw US support for Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, when an attack led by Hamas killed about 1,200 Israelis, more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s counterattacks, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian author Laila El-Haddad said in court testimony on Friday that she has lost more than 85 family members in Gaza air strikes and other attacks from Israel in the last 16 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel has displaced or is starving the surviving family members, and they are having trouble just trying to survive at this point,” El-Haddad said. “It’s consumed every aspect of my life. It’s been a living nightmare, figuratively and literally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s hearing brought a packed courtroom, and a digital livestream of the proceedings, capped at 1,000 people, quickly reached capacity. Hundreds who were turned away from the courthouse painted phrases like “no bombs” and “Biden complicit in genocide” on the streets outside the federal building in downtown Oakland, while other supporters of the lawsuit handed out coffee and snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Friday morning, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/26/un-court-orders-israel-to-ensure-acts-of-genocide-are-not-committed-in-gaza\">ordered Israel to prevent death, destruction and acts of genocide in Gaza\u003c/a>. However, the court did not order an end to Israel’s military offensive. Shamas of CCR said that the ruling and Friday’s effort in Oakland to stop the genocide are in “parallel postures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ICJ was looking at this plausibility threshold to issue what they call provisional measures in those contexts to stop immediate harms,” she said. “That’s what we are asking the judge here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the Biden administration has continued to fund weapons for Israel and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/30/biden-administration-bypasses-congress-on-weapon-sales-to-israel\">bypassed\u003c/a> congressional approval to do so. And in December, the U.S. vetoed a U.N. resolution to order a cease-fire for both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/26/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland/240126-gazalawsuit-06-bl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973924\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973924\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"a group of demonstrators hold signs outside a court building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside of the US District Court in Oakland. Many were turned away from the courtroom after it reached capacity. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Mike Zerelli, who has several family members currently in Gaza, was outside the courthouse on Friday morning waving a Palestinian flag.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are struggling to survive. My brother’s home was totally bombed. His father had a farm there in the north of Gaza that’s totally gone,” Zerelli told KQED. “They have been moving from the U.N. school shelter and they were bombed out of that. Water and food is extremely hard to get. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Update, 4:30 p.m. Wednesday:\u003c/strong> A federal judge in Oakland on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging that the Biden administration is complicit in genocide against residents in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plaintiffs in the case sought to block the U.S. government from providing military aid to Israel, arguing in court last Friday that doing so was in violation of international and domestic genocide laws.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The judge ultimately sided with attorneys for the U.S. government, who argued that the courts lack authority over certain political decisions made by Congress and the executive branch.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Original story, 4 p.m. Friday (Jan. 26)\u003c/strong>\u003cbr>\nCrowds of at least 200 people protested outside an Oakland federal courthouse on Friday as attorneys gave arguments in a lawsuit seeking to stop U.S. aid for the Israeli government’s attacks on Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attorneys from the Center for Constitutional Rights, representing Palestinians in the U.S. and abroad, filed the \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2023/11/Complaint_DCI-Pal-v-Biden_ww.pdf\">lawsuit (PDF)\u003c/a> in November. They are \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2023/11/PI%20Motion_w.pdf\">seeking a court order (PDF)\u003c/a> to stop U.S. military aid to Israel, arguing it is fueling a genocide against Palestinian people and urging the Biden administration to pursue a cease-fire. On Dec. 8, the federal government responded with a motion to dismiss the case, saying the court had no oversight on foreign policy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s single-day hearing laid out arguments from Palestinians and U.S. officials. Plaintiffs argued that by aiding Israel’s military operations in Gaza, the U.S. government has violated international law codified in the 1948 Genocide Convention, as well as the U.S. Genocide Convention Implementation Act of 1988.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Plaintiffs had seven witnesses call in, including a doctor currently based in Gaza. “Every single one of the testimonies that we heard was gut-wrenching,” Diala Shamas, senior staff attorney at the Center for Constitutional Rights, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>U.S. District Judge Jeffrey S. White said he would take a hard look at the arguments and evidence and is expected to deliver a decision in the coming weeks. “The question of what he can do is what he’s sitting with,” Shamas said, adding that they are hopeful he will “issue some kind of order to stop the genocide.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lawyers for the U.S. Department of Justice, however, argued that the court does not have authority over international policy decisions made by the president and Congress.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is not the court’s role to sit in judgment of U.S. foreign policy decisions concerning the conflict in Gaza or to assess whether Israel has transgressed limits imposed by international law,” Biden’s defense attorneys wrote in \u003ca href=\"https://ccrjustice.org/sites/default/files/attach/2024/01/64_1-12-24_Govt-reply-MTD_w.pdf\">a court brief (PDF)\u003c/a> this month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s a concern Judge White had also expressed in the days leading up to the hearing. He questioned what authority the courts have in foreign policy decisions typically decided by other branches of government.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/26/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland/240126-gazalawsuit-02-bl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973925\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973925\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL.jpg\" alt=\"a large sign hangs from a courthouse building that reads 'we charge Biden with genocide'\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-02-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators hold a sign that says, ‘We Charge Biden With Genocide’ outside of the US District Court in Oakland on Jan. 26, 2024, during a court hearing to urge the White House to withdraw US support for Israel. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Since Oct. 7, when an attack led by Hamas killed about 1,200 Israelis, more than 26,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel’s counterattacks, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Palestinian author Laila El-Haddad said in court testimony on Friday that she has lost more than 85 family members in Gaza air strikes and other attacks from Israel in the last 16 weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Israel has displaced or is starving the surviving family members, and they are having trouble just trying to survive at this point,” El-Haddad said. “It’s consumed every aspect of my life. It’s been a living nightmare, figuratively and literally.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Friday’s hearing brought a packed courtroom, and a digital livestream of the proceedings, capped at 1,000 people, quickly reached capacity. Hundreds who were turned away from the courthouse painted phrases like “no bombs” and “Biden complicit in genocide” on the streets outside the federal building in downtown Oakland, while other supporters of the lawsuit handed out coffee and snacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Friday morning, the U.N.’s International Court of Justice \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/26/un-court-orders-israel-to-ensure-acts-of-genocide-are-not-committed-in-gaza\">ordered Israel to prevent death, destruction and acts of genocide in Gaza\u003c/a>. However, the court did not order an end to Israel’s military offensive. Shamas of CCR said that the ruling and Friday’s effort in Oakland to stop the genocide are in “parallel postures.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ICJ was looking at this plausibility threshold to issue what they call provisional measures in those contexts to stop immediate harms,” she said. “That’s what we are asking the judge here to do.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, the Biden administration has continued to fund weapons for Israel and has \u003ca href=\"https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2023/12/30/biden-administration-bypasses-congress-on-weapon-sales-to-israel\">bypassed\u003c/a> congressional approval to do so. And in December, the U.S. vetoed a U.N. resolution to order a cease-fire for both sides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973924\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2024/01/26/lawsuit-seeking-to-stop-u-s-aid-to-israel-holds-first-court-hearing-in-oakland/240126-gazalawsuit-06-bl/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11973924\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973924\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL.jpg\" alt=\"a group of demonstrators hold signs outside a court building\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240126-GazaLawsuit-06-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather outside of the US District Court in Oakland. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian protesters in San Francisco unfurled a large banner from a Coit Tower balcony on Thursday that read “Jews Say: Let Gaza Live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration, organized by Jewish anti-occupation group IfNotNow, was aimed at pressuring California politicians like Sen. Alex Padilla, Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Sen. 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Ro Khanna (South Bay), who joined the call for a cease-fire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There are over 60 members of Congress now who are supporting cease-fire, and we started with only 15 or 18 of them,” Papermaster said. “So that is growing, but it’s not happening fast enough.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Papermaster said it was important to her and her fellow demonstrators to send this message as a Jewish group.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972981\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972981\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"An older woman holds a sign with more protesters behind her also holding signs.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-17-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cynthia Papermaster demonstrates in front of Coit Tower to call for a cease-fire in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We really want to get that message out loud and clear coming from Jews because, you know, if you call for a cease-fire, sometimes you’re accused of anti-Semitism, which is completely illogical and wrong,” Papermaster said. “This is a group of young and old Jews, Jews of every stripe, who are really exhibiting true Jewish values.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the base of the tower, a group of more than 50 chanted “cease-fire now” and held signs reading “Let Gaza Live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972978\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972978\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A middle-aged man speaks into a microphone wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-10-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Satchel Forrester speaks at an event organized by IfNotNow calling for a cease-fire in Gaza. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The group booed at the mention of San Francisco Mayor London Breed. The mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/breed-condemns-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-18608002.php\">spoke out over the weekend\u003c/a> against a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972100/san-francisco-supervisors-approve-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">Board of Supervisors resolution\u003c/a> supporting a cease-fire, according to several news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the week, three Jewish advocacy groups — the Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Council, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee — had \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/leading-jewish-organizations-call-on-mayor-breed-to-veto-sf-israel-hamas-resolution-thank-her-for-rebuking-board-of-supervisors/\">issued a joint statement\u003c/a> urging Mayor London Breed to veto the Board of Supervisors’ cease-fire resolution, which they said created “a deeply toxic atmosphere,” and that “a veto would send a strong message in support of our safety and belonging in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Antisemitism continues to surge in San Francisco, with unprecedented targeting of Jewish businesses, students, and congregations,” the Jan. 16 statement read. “The Supervisors in support of the resolution have given license to provocateurs to spew lies and vitriol in city hall and far beyond, retraumatizing the Jewish community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11973003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11973003\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters on a tower unfurling a banner.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-14-qut-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators with IfNotNow call for a cease-fire in Gaza and unfurl a 60-foot-long banner from Coit Tower. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The banner on Coit Tower flew for less than an hour before demonstrators pulled it back up to the balcony and left Coit Tower as police arrived on the scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department, which manages Coit Tower, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>Updated 5 p.m. Thursday\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pro-Palestinian protesters in San Francisco unfurled a large banner from a Coit Tower balcony on Thursday that read “Jews Say: Let Gaza Live.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The demonstration, organized by Jewish anti-occupation group IfNotNow, was aimed at pressuring California politicians like Sen. Alex Padilla, Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-San Francisco) and Sen. Laphonza Butler, along with President Joe Biden, to join them in calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11972980\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11972980\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"Protesters gathered outside a building holding signs and chanting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/01/240118-COIT-TOWER-CEASEFIRE-MD-16-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators with IfNotNow call for a cease-fire in Gaza at Coit Tower in San Francisco on Jan. 18, 2024. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Spokesperson Cynthia Papermaster said she is hopeful that continued actions like these can convince politicians to change course, citing Massachusetts Sen. 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The mayor \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/article/breed-condemns-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-18608002.php\">spoke out over the weekend\u003c/a> against a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11972100/san-francisco-supervisors-approve-gaza-cease-fire-resolution\">Board of Supervisors resolution\u003c/a> supporting a cease-fire, according to several news outlets.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earlier in the week, three Jewish advocacy groups — the Bay Area Jewish Community Relations Council, the Anti-Defamation League, and the American Jewish Committee — had \u003ca href=\"https://jcrc.org/blog/leading-jewish-organizations-call-on-mayor-breed-to-veto-sf-israel-hamas-resolution-thank-her-for-rebuking-board-of-supervisors/\">issued a joint statement\u003c/a> urging Mayor London Breed to veto the Board of Supervisors’ cease-fire resolution, which they said created “a deeply toxic atmosphere,” and that “a veto would send a strong message in support of our safety and belonging in San Francisco.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"headTitle": "San Francisco Supervisors Approve Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution | KQED",
"content": "\u003cp>San Francisco supervisors on Tuesday officially called for an immediate cease-fire in Gaza, making the city among the largest in the country to pass \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11971971/san-francisco-is-considering-a-gaza-cease-fire-resolution-what-is-a-resolution\">such a resolution\u003c/a>.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Supervisor Hillary Ronen\"]‘Our actions today take a stand on this issue, and it will help push our government to change its actions. Today is one of those days where it feels like San Francisco is still here.’[/pullquote]Approved by a vote of 8–3, the resolution also demands the release of all hostages and an increase in humanitarian aid to Gaza and condemns antisemitic, anti-Palestinian and Islamophobic rhetoric and attacks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our actions today take a stand on this issue, and it will help push our government to change its actions,” Supervisor Hillary Ronen, a co-sponsor of the resolution, said at Tuesday’s packed Board of Supervisors meeting. “Today is one of those days where it feels like San Francisco is still here.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hoping to build consensus around the vote, board President Aaron Peskin introduced a last-minute amendment to the resolution, including a statement explicitly condemning attacks by both Hamas and Israel and urging the Biden administration to similarly call for a cease-fire. 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