Pro-Palestinian and pro-Israel demonstrators rallied in various parts of the United States on Monday (Oct 7) to mark the first anniversary of the Oct 7 attacks, which triggered the Israel-Hamas war.
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00:00Since one year, innocent people are dying, kids are dying, women are dying, that they
00:22are very innocent, that's my family.
00:25All I have to say to the world, stop the genocide today, not tomorrow.
00:30It's heartbreaking, whether you're Jewish, not Jewish, that just people could do that
00:37and that the world doesn't see that, they see either or, either an oppressor or an oppressed,
00:46and they can't just say, we're all in pain, and it's heartbreaking, it's heartbreaking.
00:55And we all Israelis feel horrible, all of us know someone who was murdered, and many
01:03of us know personally these people, so for these reasons, we feel terrible in general
01:12in the last year, especially when looking at what happens in the campuses.
01:25This should have not been going on for a year, a month, a week, even a day, even an
01:33hour.
01:34It should have never been like this in the first place.
01:37That's why we're still here.
01:39Even after a year, we have hundreds of people attending, still trying to organize, still
01:44trying to unite the populace to show the people, to show the administrations, the government
01:49that this is not okay.
01:51I refuse to be complicit in voting in a presidential leader that will continue the genocide, will
01:58send billions of aid to Israel and weapons to them.
02:02I refuse to be complicit in that, and if there is no other option, I refuse to vote because
02:06I will not let my hands write in the person who will send these weapons and this money
02:13to the state that is killing my people from both countries, Lebanon and Palestine, and
02:18is also causing conflict in the Middle East.
02:29I think frustration and anger are the biggest things I'm feeling right now because, I mean,
02:36we have been out in the streets protesting, we've been boycotting, we've been speaking
02:40out, we've been organizing, we've been doing, using every possible channel we can to change
02:45this and still no change, in fact, it's getting worse.
02:49Of course I feel hope.
02:51You know, God has promised us that there will come a day, but that day is not going to come
02:55until humanity wakes up.
02:57That's the whole point of what happened in Gaza and why it took place and why it's so
03:01important, and we have to honor their wishes and their message.
03:05Their message was, don't forget us, you forgot us for 75 years.
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