in the is hattie. i live in a suburb of philadelphia. these are my kids and nieces and nephews. i parents lived to the 1948 wars and were displaced and were in the occupied territories until 1973 until they left with five kids, me being the youngest come to the u.s. to see this unfold and my parents stories, it feels like a repetition of what happened in 1948. it is a personal experience for all of us. even though i grew up in the united states, we live it through our parents and our parents stories. i feel like it is 100 fold now. it was very traumatic what they went through. they lived in caves and trees until they made their way to the west bank. my father's village was completely annihilated. when i went to visit in the

mid-1990's, i will never forget my dad standing on the side of his village, what used to be his village come over, with bush and overcome and how my dad looked looking at the land, which he had not been back to for 22 years. >> i am from boston. i am here in solidarity with the palestine people. our colleagues in gaza now who are under indescribable situations to perform their jobs. right of the situation is beyond belief right now. they're doing surgeries without anesthesia, without electricity, without water. it is something no doctor should ever be quiet about. i am carrying this poster in solidarity of the health-care workers in gaza. some of the people who passed away our colleagues of us.

physicians. some were faculty at the medical school. the dean of the only medical school in gaza was killed in an israeli strike. the least we can do is to show their pictures. they are not numbers. they died serving human life. >> frame free -- free free palestine! free free palestine! amy: some of the voices of tens of thousands of people, some say 100,000, organizers, three hundred thousand, who came to washington, d.c., from around the country saturday to join the largest pro-palestinian demonstration in u.s. history. before the march to the white house, speakers addressed a rally in a packed freedom plaza which they dubbed gaza plaza. we

began with noura erakat. >> we are all here to charge this administration with genocide. israel and the united states are jointly complicit in the ongoing nakba in palestine. together they are renting international law worthless and relevant. every single tribunal from nuremberg to rwanda, bosnia to cambodia -- every prosecution at the icc -- protect as from ourselves and today we failed to stop. today we failed to stop the skies from crashing down in white phosphorus flames onto palestinian dreams. memories, potential onto palestinian these. not old enough to beseech you,

to have mercy upon them. we are here now with them and for them to demand a cease-fire. we demand because palestine reveals the naked hypocrisy of western universalism. it reveals our enduring colonial rheology -- reality and offers a glimpse into future without colonialism. palace dean, we are valued people, have always existed. we are survivors and fighters, continue to affirm that they belong to a land upon which there is a life worth living. [speaking non-english] we are like olive trees like the

ones that our ancestors planted. we are unshaken. we are unmoved. we are undeniable. stand with us in this promise. we promise, palestine still promises, that we will all be free! free. free palestine. macklemore on deck. >> peace, everybody. you know, first and foremost, this is absolutely beautiful to observe today. i did not expect to be on a microphone, but there are thousands of people here that are more qualified speak on the issue of a free palestine and myself.

but i will say this, they told me to be quiet, they told me to do my research, to go back, the that it is too complex to say something, right? to be silent in this moment. in the last three weeks, i have gone back and i've done some research and i don't know enough but i know enough that this is a genocide! we are scared. we are watching it unfold. we have been taught to just be complicit, to protect our careers, to protect our interestss. and i'm not quite a do it anymore. i'm not afraid to speak the truth. my daughter said to me this morning, she said -- she is

eight years old. she said, dad, we protest today, would we march today, how are the people in palestine going to know we are showing up? look at this. look at this. the world is watching what we do right now in this moment of injustice. [cheers] there is no side in humanity. we lead with our hearts. we speak the truth. we shut down the propaganda and we march forward! free free palestine! free free palestine! thank you. >> the very courageous comrades of the palestinian collective. >> over 10,000 palestinians have been martyred and 70% of those

killed in this genocide are women and children. today in gaza, there are half a million displaced palestinian women and girls. 50,000 pregnant women are waiting to give birth with 5500 expected to deliver next month without water, without food, without fuel, without life-saving medicine or medical equipment. shame! women have resorted to taking birth control pills to stop their menstrual cycles because of the lack of sanitary pads. shame! this targeting of indigenous women's bodies and sexualities is woven into the genocidal fabric of israeli settler colonialism. but our love and care for each

other, our insistence to live, our persistence to give birth to the next generation of palestinians on our homeland, to hold ground them is the most unlivable conditions is a testament to the fact that we refuse to die quietly! we refuse the terms of our banishment. we are a people who teach life and keep creating life in spite of genocide through a revolutionary love. our love for each other and our love for our homeland. and that love is something the colonizer can never take away from us! to know this, to feel this love deeply is to know that we have already won. next up, we have brother nihad awad from the council on

american islamic relations. >> from the beginning of the bombardment of gaza, we spoke to president biden the language of logic come the language of law, the language of humanity. we appealed to him to take a moral position, to recognize 2.3 million civilians posting is trapped in gaza under the attack of the israeli forces from every measurable type of weaponry, to call for a cease-fire. all of these calls and the calls from the world community fell on deaf ears. shame! shame! shame!

shame! shame! shame! as the images of the genocide increased, he dehumanized the palestinians and dismissed their suffering. he denied the dead palestinians the right to be acknowledged as dead. shame1 shame! he insisted that there should be no cease-fire. the state department asked their staff to not talk about this and the de-escalation. have discovered the language that president biden understands, and let me share it with you. the language that president

biden and his party understands is the language of the vote in 2024 elections. and our message is, no cease-fire come in no votes. cease-fire, no votes! no cease-fire, no votes! novo to michigan, no votes in arizona, no votes in georgia, no votes in nevada, no votes in wisconsin, no votes in pennsylvania. no votes in ohio. no votes for you anywhere if you do not call for a cease-fire now. after hearing this message in

the past week and a half, and the fact 60% -- 66% of americans support a cease-fire, the president, the secretary of state, democratic senators and representatives, started to change their tone. we will make our voices heard more and more. in november, we remember. in november, we remember. in november, we remember. in november, we remember1 in november, we remember! a white house official told a friend of mine that the community has a short memory. a few months and then they will forget. let me tell them, in november, we remember. in november, we remember! in november, we remember!

>> next up. >> i want us to take a few minutes to consider the magnitude of loss of life currently happening in the gaza strip. i want us to consider what it means to move 10,000 people or 10,000 people to be killed by israeli warplanes. consider their families and their grief. consider their lovers. consider the people missing them. consider our martyrs lives, their grievances, their hobbies. and most of all, i want you to consider the fear that they must have felt as warplanes dropped over their heads. the fear they must have felt in his before they were killed. and i want you to compare that fear -- i way to measure that fear get your own fear. it does not compare.

i understand this. we're are all afraid of losing a job, friend, being ostracized, being shamed. i called my father earlier and told him i was coming to this march. he said, stay away from the cameras. we're all afraid but this fear does not compare. they want us to think we are paying personal prices, but we have our community. [cheers] they want us to think we are alone, but we have our people supporting us. [cheers] if they come for you, if they take your job, if they fire you from school, you, do not think of yourself as a casualty.

you are not a casualty. you are fuel for the movement. you are part of the struggle. they want us to be silent but we know silence will not protect us. fear and silence will do nothing but allow this carnage to go on and checked. --unchecked. silence is a sign of consent in the empire. are we afraid? >> no! >> are we afraid? >> no! amy: voices calling for an immediate cease-fire in gaza.

when we come back, we go to gaza to hear from the poet ahmed abu artema who inspired the great march of return. last month he lost five members of his family. he speaks from his hospital bed. back in 20 seconds. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now! i'm amy goodman. we's oak to the palestinian poet and journalist and peace activist ahmed abu artema who lost five members of his family last month when they were killed by an israeli airstrike.

he survived the blast but was seriously injured. the dead include his 12-year-old son. he helped inspire the great march of return, series of weekly nonviolent protest in gaza that began in 2018. israel responded to the protests by killing over 200 protesters, including 46 children. artema recently wrote in an article for the electronic intifada is headlined "why did israel kill my son?" >> i was sitting with my children in the living room of the house of my family. it is a house of three floors. there were about 40 members in the house at that moment. suddenly, i became unconscious. maybe after a few minutes i woke up again. i saw dust and rubble

surrounding me everywhere. i knew at that moment the house where i was with my children was bombing. my hearing at the time was gone. i did not hear anything but i looked around me. i looked around me and i saw my two children screaming and pointing to my other child, my oldest child, their brother. there shafting -- they were shouting he was lying on the floor. the people came and took us from the rubble. we went to the hospital by

ambulance. my two aunts and my brothers wife and my cousin were killed at the same time, at the first time of the bombing. my child and my niece, she is about 10 years old or so, they were in critical condition. a day after, they were killed. the majority of the family, most of them were injured. this is what happened with me. this is an example of the daily israeli bombing against gaza.

the israelis are saying it is a war against hamas? but where is hamas? take my house for example. a woman into charter more killed. this is an israeli strike. this is happening every day. the majority are innocent women and men and children, complete families. israel declared it clearly that it is a problem with the palestinians and not with a faction or group. the israeli problem is the palestinian existence. it is not by mistake.

they did not bombard my house, did not kill my child by mistake. it is an israeli strategy, israeli mindset of genocide. they look at us as nothing. we are nothing. we are human animals. in their perspective. so they don't care to remove all the palestinians, kill all the palestinians. allowing for the israeli genocide to happen, this is the horrible thing. supported completely by the united states administration. the missile that killed my son,

that killed thousands of palestinians come are u.s.-made. we are subjected to genocide. this is the most important message. amy: ahmed abu artema who inspired the great march of return protest years ago. last month he lost five members of his family just a week or two ago, including his son, and israeli airstrike. he was injured and recorded this from his hospital bed. the gaza health minister has announced palestinian dental and gaza has exceeded 10,000 from israel's month-long bombardment was to on friday, lease 15 people died when an israeli airstrike hit a convoy of ambulance is outside gaza's largest hospital. we're ending with dr. alice rothchild, retired ob/gyn, was last in in august.

on friday, dr. rothchild participated in a nonviolent protest to shut down the federal building in seattle where democratic senator patty murray of washington has an office, urging the senator to call for an immediate ceasefire. dr. rothchild is on the steering committee of the jewish voice for peace health advisory council and providing frequent updates on the deteriorating medical situation on the ground in gaza. she's also the mentor liaison for we are not numbers, and on the board of gaza mental health foundation. welcome back. if you can talk about the attack on hospitals. you have the attack on the ambulance convoy. israel said it was because they were transporting hamas fighters. you have the attack on the hospitals come israel says it is because command-and-control is underneath. can you comment on this? and the number of the death toll at this point? >> this is an appalling situation in terms of the death toll. there are multiple international laws, starting with the geneva accord, being violated. you're not allowed under any

circumstances to bomb hospitals, health centers, ambulances. this is against international law. israel --israeli military for years with multiple different attacks has accused health facilities of sheltering "terrorists." they have never produced good documentation. even if there were tunnels under hospitals, you're still not allowed to bomb a hospital. this is a grave violation of international law and also part of the situation were civilians are dying in massive numbers and being injured in massive numbers. amy: can you comment on the level of protest you're are seeing right now and the amount of suffering you're seeing right now in gaza? you have these 18 groups, rarely issuing a joint statement, ngo's, along with u.n. agencies, demanding a cease-fire and what this would mean and what senator murray has said to you as a representative of jewish voice for peace and

the gaza mental health foundation as you shut down the federal building in seattle. >> i think -- i have been doing this solidarity work for 25 years. this kind of response is unprecedented. i think it is a reflection of the israeli attack. senator murray has not called for a cease-fire for people all over the planet are calling for a cease-fire because we must stop this bombing and we must stop all of the civilian deaths. it is clear the israeli military is not doing a war to destroy hamas, it is to destroy gaza and the infrastructure and killing thousands of people. over the half the homes are destroyed, the hospitals. it is a massive catastrophe for this region. this is part of an israeli plane to run gazans out of gaza and

displays them into egypt. also horrific ideas going around -- all sorts of horrific ideas going around. the response is being seen internationally. amy: can you talk about the health situation? we just came out of the third total blackout of gaza with health organizations, human rights groups begging the israeli government to turn back on the electricity, the cellular service, because of what it is for people, organizations trying to coordinate their surviving workers on the ground, to help the palestinians. >> health system is catastrophic. it has collapsed. if you think about it, what it means not have electricity, you cannot call an ambulance. you cannot communicate with anyone. hospitals cannot communicate with each other. they can't pump water into the system. there's hamas no water at all that -- there is almost no water

at all that is clean. you cannot wash instruments. there's a lack of antibiotics. people are dying of infection. it goes on and on and on. if you think about not having water and electricity and not having food. there is a serious risk of starvation. the average gazan is living on two pieces of bread a day and searching for water for hours. people are starting to drink agricultural water so you're saying an uptick in diseases, respiratory infections, chickenpox. this is a humanitarian and health catastrophe basically being live-streamed in front of our eyes. amy: and the position of the biden administration? >> the position of the biden administration is entirely an adequate and utterly outrageous. biden needs to call for a cease-fire. the u.s. is planning to send israel more weapons that will only create more havoc. israel should not be getting weapons and biden must call for

a total cease-fire. that is absolutely necessary from a humanitarian, health-care, political, human, moral point of view. amy: dr., thank you for your u for being with u