 The Mecca let them reach the south, just before the air struck them, and the whole 17 were killed. They were in pieces, they were collected, flesh by flesh, and them by them. Rubah lost her entire family. Last my brother, who has loved husband and her family, she has been displaced since then seven times. From house to house, displaced seven times from house to house, from attend to attend, all this alone with three children pregnant in her six months of pregnancy in need of an emergency C-section at birth and no hospitals there, no anesthesia. She will face the death at the time of labor this winter with my family to see my brother Muhammad. I haven't seen him for 20 years. He was murdered, killed with a cold-blooded soldier, paid for that bullet that killed my brother with my money taxes invested by him as my family's blood on his hands. This call for an immediate and permanent ceasefire. We demand that they stop sending weapons to Israel to kill our beloved one. And we call on all of you to stand with us and hold our government accountable so our children can grow up and our families can live. Thank you. This is beautiful. A piece upon a wall. My name is Abid Hashami, a Gaza Palestinian-American residing in Texas with a wonderful family, wife and three children. I also have a large family in Gaza that has shrunk in size in the last three months. One of my wonderful family members in Gaza is my nephew Ahmad. Ahmad is six-foot-tall. He's an athlete who excels in sand, volleyball, and soccer. Ahmad has a special relationship with Gaza Beach. He's in love with the sand, with the waves, and with the sea breeze. He often took his wife Fida, his three kids, and his 70-years-old mother Halima, my sister, to the beach where he would teach his children how to play soccer, how to swim. Mom, his wife Fida, and his mother Halima sipped freshly made mint tea. Ahmad is now playing in a hospital bed paralyzed. He's paralyzed from the waist down to the Israeli indiscriminate bombing. The same bombing took Halima, his mother, his wife Fida, and his three children. Five-years-old and 11-months-old. You heard that right, 11-months-old. Insulted in injury, Ahmad couldn't get the necessary medical care for the wound of his abdomen, or for the emotional trauma of paralysis in the loss of his family. The chief of hospital, where he was awaiting surgery, was attacked and invaded by the Israeli troops, forcing him to his to be transported to a hospital in Rybnavach, where he remains now. That off a hospital lacks medications and supplies, and listen to this, the screams of pain were heard throughout the hospital corridors when the surgeon cleaned his wounds and stitched those abdomen wounds without anesthesia. Because he can never walk again. He knows he will never feel the softness of each hand under his feet again. Nor the warm hugs of his mother and wife. Nor hear the giggles of his three children. All of them were buried without saying a good final goodbye. He told me on the phone he is dying to be carried or wheeled to his favorite spot on Gaza Beach. What he wanted is to be left all there, that he would close his eyes and just imagine. Imagine his kids running around. Imagine his wife and mom sipping freshly minted tea while chatting. Feel the sea breeze and hear the sound of waves. Mr. Ahmad, I will be his voice. And I will share his story with you all. This is Ahmad. So I tell you, Ahmad, I will send you this video. I will send it to his hospital bed. And as I promised, I am sharing his story with everybody here. That someday I will take him to his favorite spot on Gaza Beach. Both of us would close our eyes. Feel the sea breeze. Listen to the waves. And imagine that the dead are alive. And peace has prevailed. And Palestine is free. I ask you all in the name and the names of the 60,000 Ahmads that were injured in Gaza. I ask the world in the names of the 30,000 Salimahs and Wafas that were killed in Gaza. To please stop this madness, stop this genocide. The time to call for a ceasefire is yesterday. And we are here today. And we demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire. Seize fire! Within a month, a communication with, as much as we can, not appoint a president in his family, I've got a point. Strip them down naked. And it brutally tortured them. And it humiliated them. As they fled south to seek refuge from the violence in the north while they were walking down the humanitarian passages. He had to walk with his mother as a threat of intentional starvation on the grounds of Hezbollah and of their bodies being ripped apart to pieces on their last day on Earth. May peace be upon you. May peace be with Palestine and the people of Hezbollah. Long live Palestine. See your life symptoms, confusions. Be ready for him. He was shot at by his streets. Be this hit on them. He will be starting our program and then getting ready for ours. Start making your way now. In addition to that, there is a child, Amina Hassan, 12 years old. He is waiting in the John Wilson building near the street. The John Wilson building near the street. Amina Hassan, please make your way towards the street, towards the John Wilson building. Thank you. We will be getting shortly. Everyone asking for the program, we will be getting at 130. 130. So please make your way to stage left, to pray, and we will be getting after. Peace be upon you. May God be with you. I bear witness that Muhammad is the Messenger of Allah. He is the Messenger of Allah. Two rak'as and two rak'as. All of you who are local, continue after the Dhuhr prayer, prayer four. All of you who are traveling, will be praying two and two. God is the Greatest. May God listen to those who are in praise. God is the Greatest. God is the Greatest. May God listen to those who are in praise. God is the Greatest. Peace be upon you. Peace be upon you. And the mercy of Allah. God is the Greatest. going to be praying the asr prayer now for those that are traveling will be praying the asr we need this front area is reserved for the people who are looking at the jumbo trunks and for the media if you guys put up your signs people who need asl services people who are trying to get a clear view down the block are not going to be able to see so we request please please don't put up any signs in the vicinity of of the press please and same goes for any flags if you want to hold your flag please move to the side streets you'll be able to do it there are heavy with the weight of a grim reality that has persisted for what now marks 100 days of a brutal genocide in reza at the hands of israel by tax dollars the world find itself at a crucial juncture shocked and horrified by a path chosen by some such as our own government it's a path paved with silence and neglect as over 23 000 palestinians have been murdered and over 50 000 injured the apartheid state has made 90 percent of reza unlivable displacing 1.8 million palestinians and creating a humanitarian crisis a hundred days in and genocide joe and most of our government are refusing to call for a ceasefire and instead they're acting as accomplices but we stand here in our thousands as americans to send a resounding message to the biden administration that we will not back down until justice is served until a ceasefire is established until reza is rebuilt and the siege is lifted and until palestine is free from its nearly 75 76 year long occupation so as we stand states where much of the fate of palestinians is dictated in the halls of congress and in the rooms of the white house we are here to reiterate three demands and we will not back down until they are acted upon throughout our hopelessness and despair there is a glimmer of hope and the tide is truly shifting over the last hundred days you everybody in the crowd and across america have taken to the streets all across the us you've been sending tens of thousands of emails to congress and you've made hundreds of thousands of calls to your elected officials and for the first time ever we are hearing a shift in the narrative in the halls of congress for the first time we're hearing more elected officials discuss conditioning us funding to the apartheid state and more and more are beginning to realize that they can no longer ignore us they can no longer ignore the people we call on president biden his administration and congress to number one demand an immediate and permanent ceasefire to uncondition and conditional us funding to israel and hold israel accountable for their war crimes the urgency of now cannot be overstated the future is being shaped by our actions or lack thereof history teaches us that delay can and will be our greatest downfall the sands of time will wait for nobody so join me in continuing to make this call today and every day until gaza and all of palestine is liberated i will be your emcee for today's program alongside my colleague and mohammed habba without further ado i'd like to introduce imam samy zahirana who is the imam of the imam of mfc mariland and he's from gaza to recite some quran for us i'm in ash-shaytan ir-rajim believers uphold justice and bear witness to god even if it is against yourselves your parents or your close relatives whether the person is rich or poor god can best take care of both refrain from following your own desire so that you can act justly and if you distort or neglect justice god is fully aware of what you do to close how beautiful would it be for those that can recite the quran to collectively together recite surat al-fatiha upon our beloved martyrs our shohadah and all those who were killed or died in the struggle for our brothers and sisters in palestine and gaza if you know surat al-fatiha recite along with me with the intention that Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala got almighty as mercy upon them we come here on this holiday weekend in celebration of the great martin luther king jr we stand here in freedom plaza that was named after the great dr king after he wrote his i have a dream speech here in this plaza through his teachings and in that vein where he says that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere that we are here today when we as americans stand against the crimes of our government these are the streets we protest on when we stood against the vietnam war they protested in these streets when americans stood against the alock war they protested in these streets and when we as americans stand against this american funded biden funded genocide we are going to protest in these streets in october they said that we would forget in november they said that we would forget in december they said that we would forget now it's january but did we forget after a hundred days we are still in these streets and we will not stop we will not stop until we achieve justice for all those in gaza until we end all u.s funding for this genocide free free palestine our first speaker is layla al haddad a palestinian journalist and someone who is famously known for showing anthony bordain around the beautiful streets of gaza without further ado as a writer and speaker words are my currency and yet lately i've been finding myself struggling to find those words to meaningfully encompass the depth of my sorrow and my horror and my disbelief in witnessing my homeland's destruction and the murder of over 100 of my family members i struggle to find the words to convey the everyday realities my family and my people are enduring recently i came across a post by a friend of mine and a fellow writer in reza called iman basher who said i was deceived by how powerful words can be but what i know for sure is that i stopped saying good night to my children and instead i say to them stay alive iman is a gaza mother just like i am and her words capture the crushing intimate daily conversation going through the minds of our families right now her words posed a challenge to us all will we sit idly by as this mother bids farewell to her children every night as though it was their last we must continue to demonstrate to all the people of gaza that as we mourn the horrific intimate details and decisions that they are forced to grapple with every day we refuse to accept the premise and the normalization of that reality and we are forcing a change we must keep fighting until we see a ceasefire we must keep fighting until we see a free palace tide and we must keep fighting until iman's stay alive turned back into good nights once again we must pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living i want to hand it over now to a young person as you know young people have been disproportionately affected in this genocide on gaza she happens to be my daughter and she is going to read a piece of spoken word that she wrote called breaking news thank you very much free free palestine breaking news five israelis killed but of course it's us they accuse like over the years we haven't been abused in our land jews you announce gaza terrorist attack but when it comes to the murder of palestinians your facts are all whack and excuse me sir biden may i just say palestinians are owed their land and are there to say unlike you who the israeli army finds easy to persuade so don't go sending aid to an army that loves to invade blockade and then persuade the media that they are right and dear america how can you just sit and watch this terrible site that has families saying up the night or is it because these pharaohs of today have you full of fright even though inside you you know what's right dear media why must we show you the kids who die acting all sly you cover up with your lies and constantly deny the amount of us killed and yes i said it killed bombed burned not dead or passed away or caught in a crossfire or is it that you enjoy portraying us as numbers but i noticed every time we are killed you use this conflict like lumber to fuel your stories and then forget us like we're storage in your inventories for every family we lose you get a chance to write a one-sided statement for your average american to be amused dear humanity wake up this might be the last cause i can give to you only believe what is true and demand to stop the genocide and propaganda before it's too late and people believe israel and the u.s. got a clean slate beautiful next up we have my colleague thought her is a law he's the director of community outreach and organizing for american muslims for palestine and also is from gaza gaza we show gaza gaza full of this small strip of land we call gaza would break the shackles of occupation would become known to the world as the places were designed as settler colonial project would unravel who would have known who would have known that the people of gaza would inspire a global uprising and an entire generation now more committed than ever to ending the hegemony that the global north enjoys who would have known that in the midst of a genocide that in america and around the world our jewish sisters and brothers would march with us hand in hand against the genocide committed in their name gaza gives us clarity unlike any we've ever felt before a clarity of vision that we no longer feel the reflexive need to appeal to the west and its racist institutions to provide us justice and restitution gaza has given us the clarity that allows us to finally see that only and only when the people of the global south rise together in unison would strengthen resilience that not a single force in the world can do anything to stop us who would have known that the mighty people of yemen would challenge the empires of the world to this genocide in gaza from people of conscience around the world has forced us to reckon with what dr marie luther king jr called the three evils of society poverty which is due to excessive materialism and capitalism evil of racism and the evil of militarism when you're himself said that america is the largest purveyor of violence in the world i stand before you today as a proud son of gaza a proud son of a shujia the graveyard of the occupiers my family in gaza has been killed has been wounded has been taken captive by occupying israeli forces from their own homes and has been displaced but i'm standing here before you today to tell you and everyone in gaza that we will never ever give up on you every resource at our disposal with every ounce of energy we have with every breath we take and waking moment we will fight is who our beloved people of gaza that have shown us and people around the world what it means to stand like an iron wall in the face of an unrelenting violent occupier we get our strength from you to my friend ahmed oota in northern gaza serving as a medical professional saving lives i tell you now that we will never give up on you we will work day and night rain or shine to end this suffering permanently in administration just know genocide joe whether you stay in office or not i want to make one thing very clear we will forgive you will haunt you for the rest of your wretched lives you genocide joe you blinkin the butcher and your secretary of defense loy dosten you will be haunted by the screams of the children of gaza you will be haunted by the prayers the agonizing prayers of the elderly and the women of gaza and we this new generation will be the answer to their prayers our next speaker comes to us from the great state of colorado where he serves in the state out of house of representatives as the first elected muslim first elected palestinian woman in state history without further ado iman juda we are just a drop in the bucket billions around the world are standing with us and that is the message we need to take to the halls of power of people we are the voices of the dead the cries from under the rubble and the hopes of those fighting for their lives ironically and perhaps serendipitously we are steps our mlk proclaimed that he had a dream that he had seen the mountain tops he said he proclaimed that he also had seen the hollow stop sorry that he that his hurry that's how big a deal this is we're here because we have also proclaimed that we understand the hollow spot where we remind america of the fierce urgency now and it would be fatal for the nation to overlook the urgency of this moment while we must keep talking about gaza let's not forget about the rest of palestine 2 000 years ago born in palestine in our backyard jesus was sent to reconfirm the message of love and peace but down the road from his birthplace stands an actual barrier to that peace out from our brothers and sisters in south africa who have come to our defense all is a constant reminder that has become a canvas pleading for the world to open their eyes to the harsh realities faced by all palestinians and the genocides in sudan the Uyghurs and in the Congo a sad kinship we all share Malcolm X reminded us that just as civil rights the civil rights movement in the united states fought against the chains of radical discrimination so too did the palestinian people the murders of george floyd black lives matter are on the apartheid wall and that did not go unnoticed by the children of gaza they wore shirts bearing the cries from gaza to Ferguson telling our black brothers and sisters how to survive boots on necks and tear gas as americans we cannot pick and choose the social justice and human rights we defend let's carry this movement beyond today and hold our elected officials accountable by our votes we must remind our elected officials at the ballot box the sentiments of MLK we want america to commit to what is said on paper that all people are created equal and as one of those elected as a palestinian american legislator from the great state of Colorado those are the same values on that paper that i took an oath to defend it should not be controversial to demand what is said on that paper and it should not be controversial to extend those rights to the palestinian people as human beings and as voters we throw down the shackles of an unjust past and present throw down the shackles and show up vote and support the policies for peace and justice let us march today with purpose and passion for gaza for Palestine but the globe once free palestine give it up for Colorado that's my home state we have brother Haroun Rashid who's the president of the muslim umma of north america in the name of god most merciful most beneficent peace be upon you we are standing in this historical march during ongoing genocide against our brothers and sisters in gaza israel government has been and is bombing hospitals schools shelters charges masks residential buildings all warm up infrastructure including un facilities more than 100 un facilities have been destroyed 137 un aid worker has been killed by israeli army they are killing doctors nurses journalists everyone anyone including un officials this indiscriminate bombardment killing innocent civilians children and women it is collective punishment hence it is work time brothers and sisters as we standing here today 23703 people has been killed some 7000 human being missing probably they are under the rubble israeli government is using the massive explosive audience unguided bomb the most sophisticated nuclear weapon such as white phosphorus gaza is occupied territory by israel since 1967 israel blocked food water electricity fuel medical supplies and communications there are animal that are treated better than pharistinians nearly two billion people 75 person population displaced from their home home situation is horrific there are humanitarian disaster in the gaza at this destruction human catastrophe and genocide done by us us supplied bombs and weapons in this campaign violate international laws un conventions it is violation us laws and us policies as well brothers and sisters helping israel in this war destroyed us image over the world in this horrific situation in this catastrophe i called upon us government today you must address the atrocities of the israeli government you must address the humanitarian crisis of the pharistinians you must address the violation of international laws and war crimes by israel i call upon us government today you must stop funding this campaign of the genocide you must put an end to the genocide i call upon us government today it is time it is time that you influence the ceasefire ceasefire right now stop the killing of civilian you must restore basic human dignity of the lives of the pharistinian i call upon united states government today do not have your name written the book of history as the oppressor as the killers of innocents people whole world is watching mr biden whole world is watching you will be held accountable for this killing we ask almighty Allah to save oppressed human being save mankind held accountable the oppressors thank you for listening god bless you the whole world is watching the whole world is watching the whole world is watching are any of you cold i'm not cold i'm not cold but for those who are our next speaker is fiery enough and she's going to warm you up our next speaker an activist a physician and a long time ally of the palestinian movement dr jill stop Muhammad i wish you could see what i see i see power i see justice i see democracy as far as the i can see thank you it is such an honor to be able to be here with you to say to the world and to say to our criminal misleaders we say ceasefire now we say end genocide now patients now are not alone probable force for peace for justice for an end to genocide now as Frederick Douglass concedes nothing without a demand we are this walker the poet and novelist said the biggest way people give up power percent in the poll to the apac white house and to the accountable to us to we the people don't let them intimidate you or to be a force in the streets we have a power to be instructing our elected officials what they need to do that they need to stop the flow of weapons and money to apartheid israel need to withdraw our advisors our troops our warships our ammunition and our weapons from the scene of the crime on to remind you we all have a choice as voters so i can't say it's beyond words i had already decided to run as the green party candidate for president i began but once it began i was so phone that we call elections to actually you cannot do this and we the people are changing course here and now you to believe that you have no choice but you actually have many choices and there will be other speakers here today who are also a principled inspired and moral choice you have that choice and we need to assert our power right now don't wait i urge you to sign this pledge to stop side through our votes you can find us on the web we'll be handing out the cards this is a pledge to say we will not give our votes to any candidate who supports genocide but we won't stop there because they would love for us to be silent and just disappear we are also saying we will support we pledge to support candidates who are fighting to stop genocide for a ceasefire now and for an end to occupation and apartheid so with that i just want to remind you that we have the power to change history the arc of the universe is long but it bends towards justice we will be the benders that moves history towards justice and as gaza goes we all go gaza is where we assert that international law and human rights are the law of the land and the law of the future let's make it happen together we are unstoppable thank you so much next we have a short message from our friends at the nitori karta who cannot be here with us today due to the sabbath with the help of the omaii i pray to the omaii to the soul palm means truth and wisdom that i may be worthy of conveying his message and so sanctify his name and bring peace to the world assalamu alaikum this message is being pre-recorded because as jews we are forbidden to speak in a microphone on the sabbath's codish on the saturday on the sabbath we want the world to know that because we are jews we are crying and hurting with the people of gaza it is beyond words they're suffering we are beyond words our frustration our hurt that this crime of mass murder is being perpetrated in our name it is anti-semitic what designed the state of israel is committing their crime their occupation and the slaughter is is a please listen to this voice and free the people of gaza free the people of palestine soon in our days assalamu alaikum who's a physician and the president of the islamic circle of north america there is a little boy by the name of jacob puffer coat he is a years old light skin brown hair is jack if you hear this can you please go to the horse statue the man on the horse he has a blue agita sweatshirt and black gloves jack if you hear this please go to the statue of the black horse of the horse in the back it is uh it is in the back of or this stage if that's what's closer uh please please make your way your family is very worried we need you as soon as possible a white coat today and this white coat is a symbol of something which has never happened on the face of the earth i'm a baby doctor those doctors which take care of babies in incubators in baby creves and whenever a baby has a low oxygen all the doctors all the medical staff all the nurses they get worried they spend their nights and days to save one baby in the crib to save one baby without oxygen mr president and fellow americans what will you say to those who cut off the oxygen for 500 babies and mr and they bombarded al shifa hospital and they killed 1000 patients we stand here to tell mr blinken mr blinken listen and of americans a loser 150 nations were against you in you and all position of leadership away from us so so before i leave things first what 65 percent of americans and all of us think here immediate ceasefire ceasefire ceasefire ceasefire morality and justice is different for ukraine and different for gaza this hypocrisy the last thing and the last is stop funding apartheid killers is stop funding them stop arming them is stop the genocide and mr biden mr blinker if you don't listen if you don't listen get ready to pack your bag and leave the white house bloody blinken genocide joe who have moral courage when their bosses do not at a time where the political establishment has shown no morality their staff has brings me great pleasure to introduce our congressional staff for ceasefire and and biden administration staff who will be who will have their statement read by a man who has shown more moral courage than everyone in the white house and everyone in congress combined josh poll the former state department rep who resigned over their stance on reza without further ado i'll invite congressional staff up first is ishmael and i'm a palestinian american congressional staffer i speak for staffers across capitol hill democrats republicans and independents many of us have dissented and protested since october 7 trust me y'all are not alone we're the ones who answer decisions we do this because we believe in a simple fact we need everyone to make this government work we know that change needs to happen on the inside and outside these past days shown that your protests your marches and your voices our efforts can change this government we join the majority of americans who are demanding a ceasefire and god and release of all october 7 attack was disgusting and the israeli's government's blatant disregard for innocent palestinians is just what's that groups twitter and instagram calls have poured in across the country by the hundreds of thousands calls from all of you we know this is wrong one second medic team medic team we need a medic over here to stage right we need a medic over here to stage right if the people around could could move to this they're waving the right oh a white rad for a white bag i'm sorry um the medic team if you guys could make your way over please oh like hundreds of thousands of calls from all of y'all who know that this is wrong but the majority of our elected officials have remained silent as palestinians died even many democrats who care about fighting gun violence at home stay silent while palestinians are killed by american made and supplied weapons at the end of the day it's the members of congress's name on the door our decision to dissent was not made lightly we are here because you all have inspired us to speak up to show solidarity and to express our humanity the long road to peace starts with the united states supporting an immediate ceasefire and facilitating the return of israeli hostages and arbitrarily detained palestinians we know that our allies in the biden administration know that you all know that many of our bosses privately express this same sentiment yet will not say the same publicly that is starting to change we are your allies on the other side of that phone we are working hard we are organizing and we are we are democrats republicans and independents all across the government who refuse to let go of our humanity keep protesting keep marching and keep calling the pressure is working the established narrative won't change overnight but together we are turning the tide thank you thank you know that the real heroes are in kaza and in the west bank um i've been asked to read a statement from u.s government employees uh but before i do so i just wanted to speak uh specifically to the arab americans to the muslim americans and to the palestinian americans among you today uh to tell you from the bottom of my heart how important your voices are you are gathered here today to demand a ceasefire an end to war and an end to occupation but more than demanding a change in policy your presence here today and every day across america is a reminder of the values this country seems to have forgotten a belief written into our founding documents that every human being on this earth is endowed with certain unalienable rights including life liberty and the pursuit of happiness for over 20 years many in your community have been vilified threatened and silenced you have been told that you do not belong here that you are not welcome here that you do not fit in here today as we see that could not be further from the truth in an era of social atomization you demonstrate the strength of community in an era of politics divorced from accountability you demonstrate the power of advocacy in an era of censorship you demonstrate courage in an era of political enmity you model human empathy in an era of unfairness you demand justice and in an era where the world believes america has lost its credibility and its integrity you embody our greatest values you are the best of america and i am humbled to be standing with you today as you raise your voices for the lives of palestinians and for the soul of america our nation knows you far more than you will ever understand on behalf of my former colleagues in government who share my concerns about the administration's approach to this conflict and the broader regional policy i will now read the following statement on their behalf we are the staffers of the biden harris administration we come from all walks of life serving in the most diverse administration in us history an administration that in president biden's own words looks like america as public servants we believe we have a responsibility to serve the american people and challenge our nation to live up to our highest ideals that is why we march today to make clear that we will not stay silent about the atrocities that are continuing in garza over 800 of us have signed a letter to the president vice president and cabinet members demanding an immediate and permanent ceasefire and de-escalation we were horrified by the brutal october 7th attacks on israeli civilians and have been horrified by the disproportionate response by the israeli government which has indiscriminately killed thousands of innocent palestinian civilians in garza and displaced over a million more we have also seen an escalation of violence in the west bank in the last three months israeli forces have killed over 23 350 palestinians including more than 9600 children they have injured more than 59 400 palestinians more than 8 000 palestinians are still missing under the rubble we have seen refugee camps hospital schools and entire neighborhoods bombed we have seen men and boys pulling dead men women and children from the rubble in sandals with their bare hands guided only by the light from their cell phones we have seen cruelty harassment humiliation and degradation of many kinds this is unacceptable we join respected institutions like the united nations and international human rights organizations in calling for an end to this mass human suffering and we join them in support of south africa's case before the international court of justice alleging israel violated the genocide convention there must be an immediate end to this violence and there must be accountability to the blatant human rights abuses and mass atrocities occurring in this region we refuse to be silent as the majority of americans and majority of the world are calling for a ceasefire president biden committed to bringing humanity to our foreign policy and we remind him that all human lives matter equally and the protection of all human rights is unconditional our voices and the voices of the american public that we serve demand that this violence must stop and for this reason we demand president biden and members of the cabinet to speak up call for a permanent ceasefire a release of all hostages including the thousands of palestinians arbitrarily detained by israel and an immediate and an immediate de-escalation now both israelis and palestinians have the right to live with equal rights safety peace and human dignity the peace and safety for all across the middle east is essential the lives of millions of people hang in the balance in gaza in israel in the west bank and across the region thank you ceasefire now ceasefire now ceasefire now this is exactly why it's important for us to have representation in our government we cannot lift our hands the government is supposed to represent the people next up one of my favorite members of congress anybody on the satellite truck you need to get off get off the satellite truck please off the satellite truck please off the satellite truck please okay somebody will handle it next up next up i'd like to introduce one of my favorite members of congress congressman andre carcen who is one out of three muslims serving in congress and represents the seventh district of indiana that's my sister right there she's a general she's a warrior she's a leader look at this crowd this is what i'm talking about when i see this crowd i think about an election year when i see this crowd i think about what it means to leverage our voting block when i see this crowd i see a movement that says we will no longer allow you to come to our masjids to come to our iftars to make empty promises and when we vote you in office you vote against our interests enough is enough what's happening in gaza is wrong it can be frustrating when some of our friends seem to be going on usual and as though the atrocities in gaza aren't even happening they're going on with their lives but for those of us who love palestine we see the faces of distraught mothers in our dreams we see the ashes of palestinian children on social media and on tv we see the carnage and death in a place that was once where family built their lives 23 000 souls have lost their lives so far and i'm afraid that that number will only grow now it's human to feel anger and grief and even hopelessness but today we should be hopeful because i see power for you you are the movement that helped to achieve a temporary ceasefire it was you you are the voices that are pushing back on right-wing extremism and apac funding you you are posting on social media and fighting the narrative that says palestinian lives just don't matter now let me assure you alohu akbar let me assure you as a black man who comes out of the black american indigenous muslim experience that we know what it means to fight against injustice it can be lonely at times it can be discouraging but we haven't given up today i see our community working together with us and it's important to have allies we couldn't get this done without allies the civil rights movement wouldn't have happened without allies the desegregation of the military wouldn't have happened without allies but we have to stay firm and not let anyone hijack our movement for their own personal gain we have to move forward we know that military aggression is not the answer we know that we'll stay strong but the world is eating out of the palm of our hands and i don't want us to squander this moment being misled or doing silly stuff there have been mass sheds who have organized all across this country in a way we've never seen let us use that same force to leverage our voting bloc