11/06/23 11/06/23 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this is democracy now! >> we are all here to charge this administration with genocide. israel and united states are joely complicit in the ongoing nakba in palestine. together they are really getting

international law worthless and irrelevant. amy: a massive crowd rallied in washington, d.c. for the latest , saturday pro-palestinian march in u.s. history calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza as the death toll in gaza and the west bank nears 10,000 over the past month. we will hear voices from the protest including palestinian lawyer activist noura erakat, the hip hop star macklemore. >> we lead with our hearts, we speak the truth, we shutdown the propaganda, and we march forward. free palestine! free free palestine! amy: plus, as israel rejects growing calls for a cease-fire, we will look at secretary of state tony blinken's tour of the middle east. we will speak with university of maryland professor shibley telhami. we will also talk to dr. alice rothchild, a retired ob/gyn who has long worked in palestine.

all that and more, coming up. welcome to democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. israel's military set is forces have fully encircled gaza city as it intensifies its bombardment of the besieged palestinian territory. leaders say that ground offensive has split the territory in two, a south gaza and a north gaza. gaza was once again plunged into a total communications blackout, the third such outage since october 7. 18 u.n. and other prominent aid groups issued a rare joint statement calling for an immediate ceasefire after 30 days of incessant and indiscriminate attacks. "enough is enough," the groups declared. the death toll in gaza is

your 10,000. nearly half of our children. -- our children. at least 45 people were killed in an israeli airstrike on the al-maghazi refugee camp saturday. it is located in the southern area israel had told gazans they should seek shelter in to escape bombing up north. photojournalist mohammad al-aloul lost four of his five children and other family members in the attack on al-maghazi. >> the news begin to trickle in slowly telling me your daughter is wounded, or sent is wounded. i got in touch with colleagues at the hospital. i found my four children martyred. my only daughter, my oldest son, the kind one. may god have mercy on him. may god have mercy on him. may god have mercy on him. amy: israel continues to strike schools and health facilities in gaza, including the areas around al quds and al shifa hospitals.

fresh strikes also took aim at the densely populated jabalia refugee camp saturday following last week's massacre. >> i was standing here when bombings happen. i carried a body. a decapitated body with my own hands. >> where should i go? they hit the shelters. those on the street and guys are hit while walking. when is it normal to strike shelters? it is so unfair. where is the united nations in this? never in any war or shelter said. amy: around 1100 people have left the gaza strip since the rafah crossing with egypt was briefly open. evacuations have been suspended since saturday but egyptian, u.s., and qatari officials said

they hoped they would resume later today. meanwhile, reports emerged friday that israel was not allowing citizens of brazil and ireland to leave the war-torn enclave as retaliation for their government's criticism of israel and calls for a ceasefire. this is an 11-year-old american-palestinian girl, farah salouha, who was forced to leave her father behind in gaza as she traveled to egypt with her mother and siblings. >> i am very sad because i left all of my friends. i was always happy with them. i miss being happy instead of just worrying all the time. it was very hard because i was sick and we had to flee and i could not stay in my room. at the nato meant to get out of gaza and i did not want to leave -- and then they told me to get

out of gaza and i did not want to leave gaza. i had to sleep in different places and we kept on moving and moving. there was no electricity and no internet and no water. amy: lebanon's caretaker prime minister najib mikati said his government will file a complaint with the u.n. security council after an israeli drone attack sunday evening killed a grandmother and three children. the strike came as israeli and hezbollah forces have been engaged in skirmishes along the border over the past month. hezbollah fired rockets into northern israel in response. the group has vowed to retaliate against israel if it kills civilians in lebanon. u.s. secretary of state antony blinken is in ankara for talks with turkey's foreign minister about israel's assault on the gaza strip. ahead of blinken's arrival, turkish police fired tear gas and water cannons to disperse thousands of protesters who'd marched on an air base housing u.s. troops.

on saturday, turkey recalled its ambassador to israel after condemning the "unfolding humanitarian tragedy in gaza." on sunday, blinken made a surprise trip to baghdad for talks with iraqi prime minister mohammed shia al-sudani. that followed blinken's unscheduled meeting earlier in the day with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas in the occupied west bank city of ramallah. blinken rejected a call for a cease-fire. on saturday, blinken joined a summit of arab leaders in jordan, all of whom condemned israel's assault and demanded a ceasefire. meanwhile, cia director william burns arrived in israel sunday for talks with israeli leaders and intelligence officials. he will then travel to the middle east. massive protests demanding a ceasefire in gaza and an end to the israeli occupation of palestine took place across the globe again over the weekend. drone footage shows an endless

sea of protesters in major cities, including jakarta, paris, london, and berlin. here in the united states, over 100,000 people took the streets of washington, d.c., saturday in the largest ever u.s. demonstration for palestinian rights. speakers addressed the crowd from a stage in freedom plaza which they dubbed gaza plaza before marching toward the white house. this is hatem bazian, a palestinian professor at uc berkeley. >> palestine was the last settler colonial project to be commission by these critical countries. as we celebrated the release of nelson mandela and the end of apartheid, we will celebrate the end settler colonialism in palestine.

that is what justice calls for. that is what integrity calls for. amy: later in the broadcast, we'll hear more voices from the historic protest in d.c. one day before saturday's mass protest, 52 activists were arrested on capitol hill as they occupied the offices of democratic senators demanding the lawmakers back an immediate gaza cease-fire. the senators included bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, and ed markey. in rhode island, the providence city council passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in gaza and for the biden administration to send humanitarian aid to gaza. this came just days after city councilor miguel sanchez was fired from his job at the rhode island governor's office for speaking out against the israeli assault in gaza. meanwhile, "new york times magazine's" award-winning writer jazmine hughes resigned after

signing an open letter condemning israel's genocide in gaza. the move constituted a violation of newsroom policy. "new york times" contributor jamie lauren keiles, who describes himself as a religiously observant jew, also left "the new york times" after signing on to the letter. in california, dozens of protesters demanding a ceasefire in gaza gathered at the port of oakland friday blocking the departure of a u.s. military supply vessels. organizers say the ship carried weapons bound for israel. protesters occupied the berth while others locked themselves to ladders on the side of the ship. after nine hours of occupation, police moved in to forcefully remove protesters from the vessel and the ship began to leave the port as people shouted, "shame on you." organizers in oakland said they've coordinated with partners in tacoma, washington, the vessel's expected next stop, for another peaceful blockade monday. meanwhile, during a palestinian solidarity action in puerto rico saturday, a protester climbed a flagpole in front of the capitol

in san juan to remove the u.s. flag and replace it with a palestinian flag. an arab muslim student at stanford university is calling on people to spread compassion and kindness after he was struck friday in a hit-and-run that is being investigated as a hate crime. the driver shouted "f-- you people" as he drove away. abdulwahab omira released a statement from his hospital bed, saying -- "this ordeal has solidified my resolve to advocate for love, understanding, and inclusivity." in nepal, a 5.6-magnitude quake struck the far western karnali province friday, killing at least 157 people. it was nepal's worst earthquake since its 2015 disaster which killed 9000 people. rescue workers had to clear roads blocked by landslides and debris to reach the mountainous villages at the epicenter of the quake. an estimated 5000 houses were destroyed or damaged. survivors say they are still

waiting for help three days after the disaster. >> we have nothing left. just from the debris are entering our noses and mouths. we cannot see properly due to the dust. what to do? we are in a very bad situation. the children are complaining they are hungry. we don't have a place to stay nor food to eat nor close to where. no one is looking after us. amy: in india's capital new delhi, officials extended elementary school closures through the end of the week as the city of 33 million chokes under the thick gray haze of air pollution. the hazardous air conditions are due to crop stubble burning in neighboring farm states, a drop in temperatures, and winds. residents are battling a myriad of health problems due to the smog. >> the situation is very bad here. there's a lot of coughing and burning sensation in the eyes. the kids are also sick.

we cannot take the kids out and we also step out far less than we used to because of the pollution. amy: and in the philippines, 57-year-old radio journalist juan jumalon was shot dead during a live broadcast in his home studio sunday by an attacker who fled on a motorcycle with an accomplice. viewers watching the program on facebook witnessed the brazen murder in real time, though the shooter was not on camera. police say they're investigating whether the killing was related to jumalon's work as a journalist. he was the 199th media worker to be killed in the philippines since the dictator ferdinand marcos, the father of the current president, was toppled in a popular uprising in 1986. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. the heads of 18 united nations agencies and ngo's have issued a rare joint statement calling for an immediate ceasefire in gaza, expressing shock and horror at israel's month-long bombardment. the statement read in part --

"we need an immediate humanitarian ceasefire. it's been 30 days. enough is enough. this must stop now." but israel is rejecting all calls for a ceasefire or even a humanitarian pause as the death toll nears 10,000 over this past month. u.s. secretary of state tony blinken is continuing a trip throughout the middle east. he is in turkey today after stops in tel aviv, ramallah, jordan, and iraq. this comes as fears grow of a broader regional war. on sunday, a strike in southern lebanon killed three children and their grandmother. it came two days after hezbollah leader gave a major address. we begin today show looking at diplomatic efforts to halt israel's bombardment which began on october 7 after hamas launched a surprise attack that israel says killed about 1400 people. israel says about 240 hostages were taken during the attack. we are joined now by shibley

telhami, professor of peace and development at the university of maryland. he's also a senior fellow at the center for middle east policy. he's co-editor of the book "the one state reality: what is israel/palestine?" professor, welcome back to democracy now! can you start off by talking about this horrifying landmark moment? nearly 10,000 palestinians have been killed. mass protests around the world. secretary of state blinken went to tel aviv then surprising people by going to ramallah, would to jordan and met with arab leaders and then onto iraq. the significance of that? what needs to happen now? >> in terms of this moment, obviously, anyone with a heart, does not matter whether you are jewish or arab or christian or whatever, the scale is unbearable. we have not seen that, certainly

years, but perhaps decades in israel-palestinian arena. it is beyond that, beyond the humanitarian party we witness every day and have witnessed on israel. i think it is -- those people who think this is just another cycle are really not capturing the moment. this is a paradigm changing moment. this is a moment likely to shift the way we think. it is likely to shift the way people in the region think about the united states. i think, therefore, even people -- let's think about the morning-after -- are not coming to grips with what a morning-after might look like if there is a morning-after. it is a moment that is bigger than most of us realize. moments in history are usually evaluated after the fact, not

while you are going through it. we know it is horrendous, but we're not grasping the implications. amy: let's talk about president biden. polls show before all of this took place -- i mean, when he was elected he had something like 50% of the arab-american vote. we are now talking about something like 17%. we are talking about key states like michigan, dearborn, for example. can you talk about the significance of this nationally? and then globally, where he stands in the arab world? >> i think nationally, we already see implications of this. we see it in various polls that have been taken. dropped among democrats, co. insulin, around the same time that this -- coincidentally, around the same time this war started and we don't know it is directly related to but perhaps

it is. but i have inducted a pole through our university of maryland two weeks after the war , and it was a bump when it comes to the biden administration's evaluation, more people said he was too pro-palestinian. in terms of [indiscernible] or likely to vote for president biden because of his stance on israel. yet far more people saying they are less likely to vote for him than likely to vote. it has implications that we cannot [indiscernible] you do know the sample based on the other polls that have been time, i know definitely some of

the arab-american -- the president likely to lose michigan because of his stance. i think the president -- my own view, this will question. -- my own view, this will crush him. what they can't understand is his inability to condemn the actions that have resulted in such mass destruction and killing in gaza and is seeming complicity in that. that is something that goes against after the soviet -- sorry, the russian invasion of ukraine, we know he tried to defend the notion of a liberal order and certainly a

rules-based international order and opposed in principle targeting civilians or recklessly endangering them and war crimes. we see he is not able to do that with regard to gaza. i think he is going to undermine his standing globally, not just in the middle east, not just -- but beyond. amy: you also said there's a level of shock you have not seen even during the iraq war that you that biden today might even supersede benjamin netanyahu as the most disliked leader in the arab world, professor. >> yes. as you know, i took a position against the iraq war in 2002 when people were talking about it just to the point i helped organize an ad for international relations september 2002 saying

the iraq war is not in america's national interest. it was hard to break through that message to the regular media. at that time, i also conducted a poll that showed george w. bush had become even less popular in the arab world then prime minister sharon. this is a paradigm shifting moment. i think it is going to be very hard for biden to recover from it. it is very hard for people to listen to him when he's speaking about a promise of peace, a promise of two states. they had not preston before in the arab world, the public opinion. i think after this, it will shibley telhami be impossible. amy: shibley telhami, thank you for being with us professor of , peace and development at the university of maryland. also a senior fellow at the center for middle east policy.

co-editor of the book "the one state reality: what is israel/palestine?" coming upcoming massive crowd rallies in washington, d.c., for the low -- largest pro-palestinian march calling for an immediate cease-fire in gaza. stay with us. ♪ [music break]

amy: "a bird from the window" by sumaiya khan. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. as the health ministry in gaza says the death toll from israel's bombardment of gaza for the last month, since october 7 when hamas attack, has reached nearly 10,000 palestinians. people took to the streets around the world this weekend to call for a ceasefire. they marched in paris, london, jakarta, milan, dakar, san francisco, and more. on saturday, in washington, d.c., tens of thousands -- organizers say as many as 300,000 people -- marched from freedom plaza to the white house in the largest pro-palestinian demonstration in u.s. history. democracy now! was there. our producer spoke with some of the protesters. >> free free palestine!

>> i am here to support stopping the war in gaza now. >> halfhearted you travel? -- how far did you travel? >> i travel nine hours from louisville, kentucky. joe biden, please stop the war. >> we traveled from north carolina. it is unbelievable what is going on. how many more children need to die? we have a lot of people here today. maybe 100,000 people in support of palestine. that shows the crimes of israel are coming out. they are losing the media war at the end of the day. a lot of people are being complacent and they are on the wrong side of history. >> i am an egyptian american. i am inspired to be here to stand up for what is right. what is right is to stop the

genocide and stop the ethnic cleansing. >> you are you here with? >> my mother. >> i can't imagine what is going on. killing kids, innocent women. it is not fair. not good for anybody. any human being. >> what is your message to mothers in gaza? >> i feel sorry but i can't do anything because i am here. >> cease-fire now! >> i am here asking the government to stop killing children, stop destroying the city. that is not how wars are fought. this is not how we resolve the

problem. you are just making it worse. >> your from gaza. are you in touch with anyone from there? >> >> as the situation allows. >> what are they describing to you? what does it feel like being here? >> they have been through so many wars. this is the most horrifying experience i ever had. day and night environment. they are lucky to be a lie. that is how they look at it. >> were in gaza is your family? >> they moved four times so far. one place to another. >> i think it is important to be here because we are seeing oppression happening all over the place. if we allowed to continue to happen, it will exacerbate.

>> why did you bring your kids here today? >> i always tell them to be on the right side of history. the things that are happening in palestine, we have also been subjected to. i tell my kids to understand what is going on in this country and -- the media will have you praising oppressor and shaming the oppressed. i've taught my kids to be mindful of how palestinians stood up for us in black lives matter and we have to speak up for them as well. >> what is your name and where are you from and what inspired you to be here with your children, with your family? >> i am palestinian. this is my daughter, she just turned one. we just had a beautiful birthday party for her. i was going to cancel because of what is happening in gaza, but i looked at the children and i said for children's sake, i'm

going to have something for her and other children to enjoy. they don't know what is happening. i am here with my palestinian children to get a voice for the palestinians that are there back home that have no voice, that are being killed by this brutal occupation and genocide that the u.s. -- we live here and our tax dollars are supporting this. this is a brick issue -- this is a big issue and we what this to end as soon as possible. we want no money for israel. they are committing war crime after war crime and nothing is being done. it is ridiculous. no other place in the world gets this immunity. >> what is your message to mothers in gaza that have lost their chili, multiple family members? >> horrific. me and my mom watch the videos and just cry and cry. we are going to tell them, be strong and keep moving forward

because we are not going to stop fighting for you. >> why? why? [indiscernible] oh, my god! >> i am here -- babies, they don't have guns. why they kill the babies? >> this is our president. he gives more guns to kill more.

>> 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