we are talking to edward ahmed mitchell, civil rights attorney and national deputy director of cair.eaking with suliman hamed, smaher's son. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman with juan gonzalez. the family -- we are looking at calls for the u.s. state department to address the killing, rest, and attacks on palestinian americans, both in the occupied territories and here at home. we just spoke about the case of samaher esmail, palestinian-american woman from louisiana, forcibly taken by israeli soldiers in the occupied west bank earlier this week. the family of two palestinian-american brothers say the pair, canadian father, and three other relatives, have been detained after an israeli raid on their home in gaza. the brothers, borak and hashem alagha, are aged 18 and 20. national security spokesperson john kirby says the u.s. will talk to israel about the detention of the brothers, as well as samaher esmail, a we also learned about the stabbing in texas, the sunday stabbing and austin of 23-year-old

the council on american-islamic relations, cair, is calling on authorities to charge baker with hatees, saying -- "those responsible for this violence must be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. and those fomenting the anti-palestinian and anti-muslim hate that leads to this violence must be condemned." senegalese lawmakers voted to delay presidential elections until december 15 following president macky sall's announcement saturday postponing the vote, which had been scheduled for later this month. chaos overtook the parliament as opposition lawmakers attempted to block the vote in protest. >> this is not possible. they are stealing from the population of senegal. nermeen: security forces forcibly removed some lawmakers during the session. the election postponement by president sall, who has already served the maximum two terms allowed, was followed by street protests and accusations of a constitutional coup by his opposition. rights groups warn senegal's democracy and political stability are at stake. in sudan, a new report by doctors without borders warns at least one child