The American Muslim Task Force for Palestine today announced the first group of speakers who plan to deliver remarks at the January 13 March on Washington for Gaza.
IMPORTANT UPDATE: The location for the march has been changed to Freedom Plaza, 1455 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, D.C.
Speakers include Dr. Cornel West, Jill Stein, Ms. Ilyasah Shabbazz (daughter of Malcolm X), Imam Omar Suleiman, Dr. Osama Aburishaid, Nihad Awad, Colorado state Rep. Iman Jodeh, Code Pink Director Medea Benjamin, and others.
Palestinian families from Gaza whose family members have been killed, injured, displaced and abducted in Israel’s assault on Gaza over the past three months also plan to share their stories during the rally.
Featured speakers include:
- Abed Ajrami (TX), who has had 32 family members of his family killed in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp, plans to share the story of how his nephew, a soccer player, is now paralyzed from an Israeli blast that killed his entire family immediately after evacuating to an area the Israeli army told them was “safe”.
- Adam Abosherieah (NJ) shares the story of his elderly mother, father and brother, who were killed in consecutive Israeli air strikes, along with more than 104 family members in Gaza City.
- Dr. Alaa Hussein Ali (MI) plans to share the story of the more than 100 members of his family who were killed in November in Israeli attacks, including the murder of his brother by sniper as he attempted to fetch water, and all of his in-laws after fleeing for safety to the south of Gaza.
- Mazin Badr (VA) plans to speak about about the killing of 10 of his closest family members, including his blind sister and his 84-year-old mother, a survivor of over 12 wars who had given up her home to host other displaced families.
- Randa Muhtaseb (MD) plans to speak about about how her cousin was operated on without anesthesia after an Israeli bomb killed her husband and unborn child. Thirty-six of her family members were killed in Israeli airstrikes.
- Yasmeen El-Agha (IL) plans to share stories of 120 of her family members killed in Israeli airstrikes, the youngest of whom was just a few months old. One elderly uncle froze to death after being forced from his home, and the small decayed bodies of two cousins under the age of 6 were found a month after they were killed under the rubble.
- Wa’el al-Dahdouh (by video from Gaza) plans to discuss the loss of his family to Israeli airstrikes and his coverage of the war as a journalist.
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