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00:00Outside the Israeli consulate in Chicago, tense confrontations with police as pro-Palestinian
00:07demonstrators continue to carry their message that American support for Israel's war in
00:12Gaza needs to end.
00:14They are bombing schools and hospitals, and the people here are protesting to say that
00:19that's not right, and the United States should not be aiding and abetting a terrorist like
00:26Netanyahu.
00:28Democrats from the so-called Uncommitted Movement, Democratic primary voters who cast protest
00:33votes against the renomination of Joe Biden over his support for the Israeli war effort,
00:37had pushed for the inclusion of pro-Palestinian speakers on the convention's main stage.
00:42Instead, they got a panel discussion at a secondary venue, where a pediatrician who
00:47has treated victims in Gaza brought audience members to tears as she described the horrors
00:52she witnessed there.
00:56Democrats worry that outrage over the tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians killed
01:00by Israel, with America's military and diplomatic support, could prove a decisive weakness among
01:06their base at the ballot box come November, a concern reflected in the messaging coming
01:11from the podium.
01:12JOSEPH BIDEN, President of the United States of America, said in a statement to The New
01:13York Times,
01:14The civilian suffering of the Palestinian people, and finally, finally, finally deliver
01:18a cease-fire and end this war.
01:22While Kamala Harris has taken a less strident pro-Israel tone than Biden, the Democratic
01:27platform remains unchanged, with no mention of the arms embargoes on Israel demanded by
01:33protesters.
01:34According to Gaza's Hamas-run health ministry, the known death toll there is now well over
01:3940,000.
01:40Aid groups and independent studies, though, say the real figure is likely much higher.
01:45Last week, Washington approved a new $20 billion arms sale to Israel.