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Speaker: I sometimes wonder what my grandparents in 1948 see on their way from their home in Yavra to Gaza when they were expelled. It seems like we had to document our own death for the world to see what's been going on. Tell me about what is happening in Gaza. Since the so-called ceasefire, people continue to be displaced by Israel and its terrorist attacks. And the food situation is not that great.
Speaker: I talked to one of my sisters in Gaza. The last time she saw an egg was the last Ramadan. The West has been able to see for themselves what happened, and that has led to the change in public opinion. Tell me your impression of how things are changing. The one change that we need to see is a change to the people on the ground in Gaza. Everyday Palestinians who need urgent medical treatment are not allowed to leave Gaza. I see the change in the opinion regarding Palestine and Israel, but also the situation in Gaza has not changed for the people. Politicians are not caught up to where the people are in Western countries. What's your advice for how we can encourage political leaders to catch up to the people?
Speaker: These crimes have been documented and they have been shared online, minute by minute. And the history is recording. Those who kept silent will be shamed forever.
Speaker: Bismillah alhamdulillah wa salatu wa salam wa arsulullah. Assalamu alaikum. May peace be upon you. Thank you all for joining today's episode of Care on Air, Beyond the Courtroom, and Behind the Headlines.
Speaker: I'm your host today, Edward Ahmed Mitchell, the Deputy Director of the Council on American Islamic Relations. And thank you all for joining us for today's program. We are very happy to welcome on a special guest that we have with us, Mossab Abu Toha, who is a Palestinian writer, poet, scholar, and librarian ah from Gaza. Many of you know his name, you've read his work, you've seen his work, and we're honored to have him with us here today. I'll give you just a little bit of information about his background, and then we're going hear about it directly from mossab So his debut book of poetry, Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear, won the Palestine Book Award and an American Book Award.
Speaker: It was also a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Walcott Prize for Poetry. He's also the founder of the Edward Said Library, which was Gaza's first English language library. Many of you know what happened to him because of his work. He was kidnapped by the Israeli armisecy army in November 2023 while he tried to leave with his family for Egypt.
Speaker: He was later released after being interrogated and questioned. He ultimately won the Pulitzer Prize in 2025 for his portrayal of the Gaza genocide in The New Yorker.
Speaker: He, alhamdulillah, is safe. His family is safe now here in America. where he's continued his activism, continued his work and continue to share with the American people and others, you know, what life is like for the people of Gaza under occupation and now under genocide. So again, Mossab, very happy to have you with us here today. Thank you so much for making time for us. Can I start by asking you just to tell us a bit about um what you're up to right now? What are your activities now? You know, since you've made it out of Gaza, since you've seen everything's happened, just give us an update on on where you are right now, what working on right now.
Speaker: Yeah, thank you so much, Brother Edward. And thanks to CARE for its very important work around, you know, Muslim population and the Palestinian people who have been under who have been undergoing a live stream genocide for over, for about a thousand days now.
Speaker: um So I've arrived in the United States in June months after left six months after i left gaza Behind me, i left my parents, my siblings and their children, my wife's entire family, her.
Speaker: I mean, I still have my uncles and aunts and you know and my cousins in Gaza. and So i I have been covering the news in Gaza and on my social media, but also on my in my articles that I wrote and also in on my social media.
Speaker: so mainstream, some of the mainstream media interviews that I did. The difference, Edward, is that in Gaza, I was running away from the airstrikes. I was digging ah through the rubble of our house to retrieve whatever I could find, food and clothes for my children.
Speaker: and The internet connection was extremely, extremely tough to connect to. um Sometimes I would spend maybe an hour to load you know, some breaking news that was taking place around me.
Speaker: The difference now is that after I left Gaza for Egypt, I stayed there for six months until I got my passports and my what my family's passports, which the Israeli soldiers stole from us along with some of my money when they abducted me in November 2023.
Speaker: So while in Egypt and now here, um it is true that I am in a safer place. It is true that... that I have better connection to the internet. But while after immediately after i left Gaza, the number of my relatives and my wife's relatives who were killed increased dramatically.
Speaker: Over the past thousand days, my wife and I lost over 100 relatives between my wife's own father, some of our first cousins, their spouses and their children.
Speaker: So we are we are watching these things from afar. We are unable to be with our families. Not that it is safe to be there, but it's nearly impossible to go back to Gaza. and So we can't be with our families. We continue to mourn the death and suffering, ands suffering the the everyday suffering of our families in Gaza ah from afar. We try to offer as much support as we could um by you know assuring them that you know things will you know we'll go better. you know We keep saying this to them and they know the truth, but
Speaker: it it helps, you know, to be in touch, for people in Gaza to be in touch with their families outside of Gaza. Because people in Gaza, and i still feel that, feel not only, I mean, I wish they were abandoned by the world, but they have been, you know, traumatized and terrorized.
Speaker: And they have been displaced because of the support of many governments, including the government of the United States. um So I think... it sometimes feels good for people in Gaza to hear and to be in touch with families, with friends who are outside of Gaza. Because if you were inside a place like Gaza and you keep being bombed by Israel, which uses American weapons, and that's the only reality that you're feeling every day, you will feel that the entire world, whether it's governments or citizens, they are all attacking you and they are all trying to kill you.
Speaker: But being in touch with our families in Gaza and updating them on what's happening and the the things that are changing, i think this gives them a lot, I mean, a bit of hope. But still, you know, for many for many of them, they don't see this a change on the ground in Gaza. Israel continues to bomb tents.
Speaker: Just today, Israel killed at least three people. Yesterday, Israel killed 10 people, including two children. I posted a video yesterday of one-year-old a child whose head was split open. I mean, this was one of the most graphic videos that I ever saw in my life.
Speaker: So Israel continues to bomb our families in Gaza. Israel continues to burn their tents, to burn their mattresses and blankets, even after all they went through. And apparently the United States government continue to support Israel and many other governments. I mean, at primarily the United States, which has the power to put an end to this.
Speaker: But we continue to hope that this change will bring a better reality and justice, not only a better reality, but justice for the Palestinian people. Because the 100 relatives that I lost with my wife and also my students and my friends and my neighbors, it's not it's i mean it's not enough for us that this will stop, but we need to see justice for these people. I need to see justice for the house that I lost, for the books that continue to be buried under the rubble of my house in Beit La'a,
Speaker: I need to see justice. Those who committed these crimes and those who you know partnered with Israel, I need to see justice here. It's not enough to condemn or to stop the the atrocity. It is equally important, even more important to hold accountable those responsible for it.
Speaker: what's up So tell me more about, and I'm glad you mentioned this, you know, i think in our country, ever since the the so-called ceasefire, which, you know, has not been a ceasefire on Israel's part, um you know, Gaza's kind of left the headlines and the folks have moved to to the war in Iran that Israel got our nation into. But as you said, every day almost, it appears the Israeli government is still bombing Gaza.
Speaker: And it would appear to just be at random, just randomly just blowing up innocent people every day. And the Israeli government has the most sophisticated military technology in the region because of our nation. So when they blow up a one-year-old child or a tent with a family in it, it's not an accident. It's a very deliberate choice. And they also, as you know, deliberately killed hundreds of journalists. And as I listen to you talk, I can't help but think that if you were in Gaza saying these things to reporter, you know you'd be at the top of a hit list as well. And so it's only because you're here, you know safe in America, that you can even speak.
Speaker: freely without the risk of being murdered by these really military. Tell me about what what is happening in Gaza right now. You've told us a bit after the bombings, but what's the food situation? What's the the situation for families, for kids, education? like Are they just living out of a limbo, you know waiting for this to to stop? what What are you hearing about what's happening on the ground right now?
Speaker: So, Edward, the person who was speaking to you was Injured in a nurse rack at the age of 16. In 2009, I was 16 years old. I was injured in a nurse rack that nearly killed me, but I survived because the piece of shrapnel, you know, penetrated my neck just two centimeters away from my windpipe. I still have the scar from that piece of shrapnel and I still have some stra some some scars are from shrapnel in my forehead, in my cheek and also in my shoulder. So I was 16 years old.
Speaker: um Since the so-called ceasefire went into effect in October 2025, Israel killed over a thousand people, the majority of whom were children and and females.
Speaker: and know Just one week or 10 days after the ceasefire went into into effect in October 2025, Israel killed two entire families from Shaban, Abu Shaban family, when they were checking on the ruins of their home in East Gaza City.
Speaker: They bombed their car, while they were in in their car, and they killed they killed two entire families. And I talked to one of the to to to the uncle of one of the families, and he told me that Israel, even, I mean, this is the level of their monstrosity, even after they bombed the car, even after they killed that two the four parents, because it's two families, two parents here and two parents here, and their children, even after they did that,
Speaker: they blocked the first responders from going to the to the scene. And the the uncle told me, after I after i talked to him on the phone, he told me that after they gave the the Palestinian civil defense and...
Speaker: red crescent ambulances to go to the scene, they gave them about 20 minutes to 30 minutes to recover the bodies of those who were killed. After that, they told them, yalla, you have to go. no You can't stay here. Just leave.
Speaker: So even after after they killed these two families, Abu Shaaban and Shaaban family in East Gaza, they blocked the Palestinian first responders from going to the scene to, I mean, not not to say to to to rescue whoever was bleeding. I mean, just imagine, you know,
Speaker: two I mean, four parents and their seven children and four parents. Not only to say you know that they're they're blocking you know the first responders from rescuing, but even to recover the body, just like they did to the Palestinian 15 medics in Rafah in February, March 2025.
Speaker: So this is this is a practice for Israel. I mean, killing children, shooting at children. And we hear we heard, you know, many doctors, including international doctors who managed to enter Gaza, that they were receiving shots, you know, every day in a specific area. Sometimes they they were shooting people in the head, sometimes in the neck, sometimes in the testicles. So, i mean, that's something, my Edward, that's something that we Palestinians have been speaking about and talking about and writing about.
Speaker: It seems like the world was was was waiting until social media was available for Palestinians to document their death, for the world to see what was happening to the Palestinian people.
Speaker: I sometimes wonder what my grandparents in 1948, when they were expelled from their homes, what did what what did what did they see on their way from from their home, from their home in Yaffa to Gaza?
Speaker: What did they see? What did they hear? What did did they smell? Right? So it seems like we had to document our own death, our own suffering, for the world to see what's what's been going on.
Speaker: um So what's happened right now is that Israel continues to bomb tents. I mean, you can go to my Instagram and my X account and also my Facebook, and you'll see but the photo at least four photos of one of the sites of the bombings where the well that child, I told you about that child whose head was split open, she was killed with her mother in the tent. If you go to the to my post and this of the photo, it was around, i would say, maybe 15 tents or 20 tents. These tents were bombed.
Speaker: They were burned. And what happened in that tent is that Israel, and it's it rarely happens, by the way, they called that one of the Palestinians in that camp, tell them evacuate.
Speaker: So evacuate. They gave them 15 minutes for everyone to know about what's going to happen. And it seems like the mother and her one-year-old child were sleeping at the time because it was, you know, evening. And they they were killed.
Speaker: So if you look, so other than other than killing these people, Israel israel destroyed their shelter. So because this family, Draz family, ah they they have been displaced from their home. So as Israel bombed their home.
Speaker: And I'm sure they killed many of their relatives. And now they killed the mother and their child. And now they they're sending these people, the entire camp that was there in Khan Yunis, they're making them displaced again.
Speaker: And there is no way for that family or those families who survived to get a new tents, to get new clothes, to get new blankets or mattresses, right? So that's one of the things that we have to bear in mind when we talk about Israel's bombing tents and houses.
Speaker: There is no shelter anymore for these families. I wonder where these families were sleeping you know after the they had to evacuate the the small camp. but I mean, that's not a question you hear any international, especially Western journalists, especially American journalists ask.
Speaker: I mean, I'm not sure even if anyone even covered the news of the baby and her mother. i don't i don't I don't think anyone, you know any major ministry media covered that. And know if they did, you know they would say, oh, Israel killed two people, even without mentioning you know the names or the ages of these people, even showing the faces of these people, or even asking the question, where are where are these people supposed to go?
Speaker: That's the question. That's the question that my grandparents, I'm sure, asked in 1940. I mean, you're asking us to leave our homes in Yava. Where should we go? Oh, we they went to the refugee camp. And my grandparents died in the refugee camp. My father was born in that refugee camp. I was born in that refugee camp.
Speaker: A second cousin of mine, Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Ayman Abu Toha, was killed in that same refugee camp along with his wife and their four children. The youngest was two years old.
Speaker: So that's the same refugee camp, right? So people continue to be killed, burned, decapitated. they they keep They keep being displaced by Israel and its terrorist attacks.
Speaker: And the the food situation is not that great. It's true that Israel was tightening its siege. back in early 2025, and also before I wrote about the the beginning of the starvation in one of my pieces in the New Yorker.
Speaker: And that's one of the pieces that won the Pulitzer. So, you know, israel Israel, you know, had to increase the number. I mean, not increase above the average, no, increase above the the limited number of trucks that were entering Gaza.
Speaker: And of course, that happened after Israel killed so many people who were seeking aid. And it happened after the images of children you know, elderly people and some of the, you know, the ill people who need specific food.
Speaker: i mean, when we talk about starvation, we're not talking about zero food in Gaza. We're talking about, you know, a stage in which people who need the food most cannot find it and not any type of food, the food that is necessary for them to survive.
Speaker: Some people do not eat bread, so they do not eat rice. They need, you know, a protein, and protein, they need vegetables, fruit. The last time I talked to one of my sisters who is in Gaza right now, I talked to her and she told me the last time she saw see she saw an egg was last Ramadan.
Speaker: So about four months ago. They haven't seen the eggs at all. so And I talked to some of the people who who either were wounded or whose spouse, wives were wounded or children.
Speaker: I remember talking to one of my neighbors whose wife was was wounded in an air strike and And he told me, Musab, I don't have painkillers for my wife.
Speaker: I don't have antibiotics for my wife. I don't have the food necessary for he for her body to heal. That's part of the genocide. I mean, we don't hear that many people talk at all. People talking about how banning certain food like vegetables and vegetables. and fish, and meat, could not only affect people's growth, but also some people's healing process.
Speaker: For someone who has lost a bone, or who had who was amputated in a nurse's eye, these people need you know healthy food. They need special food. One last example.
Speaker: a great and A great aunt of mine, she's 85 years old. She lives in that same refugee camp that I was talking about, where I was born. She's telling me, up I talked to her her son, who is my father's first cousin.
Speaker: He told me that his mother has cancer and there is no painkiller for her. There is no painkiller. They went to many, many hospitals and and and and the clinics. They went to Ashifa Hospital, to Al Ahli Hospital, ah to some of the local clinics in the refugee camp and outside. And they couldn't find the necessary painkiller for their mother.
Speaker: And their mother, continued he texted me, Musab, my wife and I sleep in the same tent with my mother. And we can't sleep at night because my mother keeps crying and and and weeping from pain.
Speaker: So this is one of the realities that you rarely hear anyone talk about because I think that's part of the demonization and the the dehumanization of the Palestinian people. That our suffering even it's not only covered, it's not even covered by the mainstream media or there are no stories about these things.
Speaker: You only hear stories when 100 Palestinians get killed, 50 Palestinians get killed. And you don't hear any, you know, individual stories about these people. Oh, 50 Palestinians were killed. 100 Palestinians were killed.
Speaker: Because Israel, family you know, Israel says there was a Hamas activist there. So it's fine. You know, you can kill an entire population as long as you're you're you're coming after someone. That's fine. This is international law to Israel.
Speaker: So, Mossab, let me ask you, you know, you you are very well aware of and have shared with us the horror of what's happening in Gaza, still happening to this day. um Living in America and seeing that despite the fact that mainstream media is not covering the horror that's still happening in Gaza.
Speaker: Thanks to the gift of social media, you know, the West has been able to see, for especially young people, have been to see for themselves what happened. And that has led to this sea change in public opinion. You're seeing that now with some election results.
Speaker: So tell me your impression of how things are changing. in terms of Western public opinion? Are you seeing it? Are you feeling it? Obviously it's not happening as quickly anyone would want, but you know what's your perspective? Do you feel like things are moving in the right direction and and what can be done to speed up that process of of of educating people at what's happening, but also getting governments to reflect the will of their people?
Speaker: Because in America now you've seen the polling, and but our government though is still reflecting what the people want. So what what's your perspective there? I think that the the change that is happening is very visible, but I don't want to feel, to to sound, you know, impatient.
Speaker: I think the one change that we need to see is a change that brings change to the people on the ground in Gaza. um Everyday Palestinian people who need to evacuate Gaza to get, you know,
Speaker: urgent medical treatment are i not allowed to leave Gaza. I have some friends of mine who were wounded with their families in school shelters or in tents and who needed medical treatment outside of Gaza because Israel, as I said, blocks, you know, ah medical supplies. And also, you know, i mean, when when when my father-in-law was was wounded in August 2025, two days before he succumbed to his wounds, there was no There was no CT scan machine in Ashifa Hospital. So he ah he had to be taken on ah on something like a tricycle to Al-Ahli Hospital to do the CT scan before they brought him back. And they took this process took four hours. Just imagine what this what this means in medicine and in and and and and urgent care.
Speaker: Yeah, just imagine. um So I see the change. I see people, not only the change in their opinion regarding Palestine, Israel, but also their awareness of the history of what's happening.
Speaker: But unfortunately, again, this happened after we, the Palestinian people, documented our genocide. I think this is the first live stream genocide that's been recorded.
Speaker: And The people who are recording it fell victim to it. And we have so many journalists, over 200 journalists, some of whom Israel accuses of being Hamas.
Speaker: But these are these are journalists. These are victims of the Israeli occupation. these Many of these people were born in refugee camps. Many of these people lost family members. These same journalists. Some of these journalists were killed with their families. So this change, unfortunately, but it's a true,
Speaker: fell victim, I mean, fell victim, you know, to the Israeli occupation. And they risk their lives. This is very important. They risk their lives in the hope that their messages will change the situation for their families, at least.
Speaker: But unfortunately, so far, we haven't seen any changes. ah You know, international journalists haven't been allowed to go to Gaza. There is something called Board of Peace.
Speaker: that is just working for Israel's agenda. um The Palestinian people continue to languish in tents. I mean, these tents, it's it's not like these these tents are put in ah in a tent area. No, some of these tents, like my two sisters, they are on the street amidst the rubble of other bombed houses.
Speaker: So this has not, I mean, the situation in Gaza has not changed for for the people. But it's very important that people are seeing the truth. And here's the important part.
Speaker: the the The older generation has been siding with Israel for me for some reason, but most importantly, because they have learned the story from the Israeli perspective, which has been taught to them and at American and you know other you know schools.
Speaker: So when you go to school, you read about the Holocaust, which is one of the ah most heinous crimes in history. So you read you read about the Holocaust.
Speaker: You sympathize with those people who survived the Holocaust. And then you read that these people, you know, wanted to go back home to Palestine. And now, you know, they turned that desert. Palestine was a desert. it was it was it was It was a place where so many but um Arab, you know, artists and singers, you know, went to establish...
Speaker: you know, their career. They went to Palestine, to Yaffa, to Haifa, to Jerusalem. jerusalem But anyway, so this is they sympathize with this story. You know, it's a story of people who were oppressed by Europeans, not Palestinians, not Arabs. They were oppressed by Europeans in Europe, not in Palestine.
Speaker: And then, you know, they went to Palestine. they they They turned the desert, they made the desert bloom. And now look, everyone hates them. I mean, come on, we are the victims. The Palestinian people are the victims. My grandparents on both sides of the family,
Speaker: They are the victims that everyone should be siding with. So they learned that story from the Israeli perspective, or I would say from the Zionist perspective. And i'm I'm sure that no one thought of challenging that a few people went to Palestine, to ah to occupy Palestine, and they saw the reality of what of the Palestinian people, that these are people who are oppressed by a military occupation, people who continue to be driven out of their homes.
Speaker: So they learned, you know, these are some of the very few people who made the journey to Palestine and saw the truth. Now, what it changes is that the the generation the young the young generation are not learning about the history.
Speaker: No, they are watching history. So there is no mediator here. there is no There is no broker of of so of knowledge. The young generation is seeing the story.
Speaker: They are not reading it in textbooks. right So that's why that's where why where the change comes from. But again, that comes that came at the expense of the Palestinian people suffering and the Palestinian journalists and writers, including me and Rifat and others, who risked their lives to make sure that the message goes out.
Speaker: And that's the the true horror is that, you know, how many people have had to die for public opinion to finally shift? And i humm I'm glad it has shifted because would be even worse if all this happened and then there was no change whatsoever in public opinion our country or in other countries around the world. But at least you see that change.
Speaker: Last question for you is, you know, again, politicians are not quite caught up to where the people are in Western countries yet. um You won the Pulitzer. And that you know helped to raise you know the profile of of what's happening in Gaza, share the information more widely. um You have a very unique voice and a unique talent that you're using to make sure that people don't forget about what's happening. What's your advice for others? It could be you know the American people, it could be other Palestinians, or refugees. you know What's your advice for how we can encourage people
Speaker: political leaders to catch up to the people, to to speed this along so we don't have to watch another 100 or 2,000, 200,000 people die before we see an actual change in Western policies towards the Palestinians and towards the Israeli apartheid government?
Speaker: Yeah, I think people, especially politicians and people who are in power, should be concerned about what Israel has been doing and what they have been saying and condoning because Israel and its ongoing genocide is setting a precedent.
Speaker: Now, if Israel, you know, did all of that, leveled at least 80% of Gaza to the ground, killed over, I mean, killed, I mean, here there is one one one point that needs clarification. So Israel killed over 73,000 people by shooting them or bombing or burning them.
Speaker: So that's that's a fact. At least. yeah yeah Yeah, at least. That's a fact. But what should also be taken into account is the number of people who died because Israel banned life-saving supplies from going into them.
Speaker: Or banned life-saving supplies and also bombing hospitals and ambulances and killing surgeons and doctors.
Speaker: so for example, I think it was December 2024 when Israel kill killed, ah I forget his last name. ah His last name is Judah.
Speaker: So he was the last orthopedic surgeon in North Gaza when the Kamal Udwan Hospital was deceased.
Speaker: So Israel killed the last orthopedic surgeon in North Gaza. What does that mean? That means that anyone who needed surgeries will die.
Speaker: Why did they die? Because there was no surgeon. How? is Israel killed him. So Israel killed that guy or that person who did not make it because there was no surgeon. So my grandfather on my mother's side, who was born in the refugee camp in 1951, and who died in the refugee camp after Israel bombed Israel, he died not by an Israeli bullet, not by a by a piece of shabnel from an Israeli bomb.
Speaker: No, he died because there was no hospital at the time. And there was no ambulance. And the siege was, sorry, the camp was under siege. I'm talking about Jabalia camp. So my my grandfather on my mother's side died in the refugee camp in April 2024, just four months after I left the camp.
Speaker: So how did he die? i mean, of course, I mean, people get sick. But when you prevent when you prevent them from having you know access to medical care, you kill them. So is Israel is responsible for the killing and death of over, I would say, 300,000 people between cancer patients, kidney failure patients. You know, my grandfather who wanted to go to the hospital, you know, but there was no way of getting him to the hospital. Israel killed my grandfather, Talal Abu Sayyid.
Speaker: So, I mean, these these crimes have been documented and they have not only been documented, but they have been shared online, you know, minute by minute, hour by hour. There is no delay for the Western audiences and the American and European politicians to get information about what's happening in Gaza.
Speaker: So Israel is sitting at precedent. Not only is it killing civilians, especially children and women, not only is it bombing hospitals, not only is it bombing school shelters, not only is it Wiping out entire families. I mean, I hope some of your audience have been following me on social media. They will see the many family trees that I posted and over the past thousand days.
Speaker: ah Israel wiped out at least 2,000 families. Two of these families were first cousins of mine. They were killed with their husbands and their children.
Speaker: No one survived in in those families. So these are documented crimes and survivors talked about you know their their stories. And some of the stories made them made made made it out to mainstream media.
Speaker: For example, you know the story of the 15 medics in Rafa, it made it to the New York Times, you know the video of the of the paramedic, the first responder who was who was documenting that crime. It made it. I mean, so is Israel is setting a precedent that should be ter terrifying for the future. what i mean what What if one day another country is doing the same thing to another people and they're saying, you know, Israel did that. I mean, of course, the United States vetoed cease a ceasefire resolution six times.
Speaker: So what if one day, 10 years from now, 20 years, 50 years, 100 years from now, you know, this country, when they want to oppress and kill and commit genocide against another people, they say, you know, Israel israel l did it. Why can't why why can't we do it Right? So these people should be concerned you know about the future.
Speaker: I'm talking about you know politicians on a personal level. you know people People have the power. Politicians are entrusted with but the responsibility to reflect you know in their statements statements. I'm not talking about decisions, you know but at least a statements.
Speaker: you know We have many courageous Congress people like Chris Van Hollen, like Rashida Tlaib, like Ilhan Omar, like a Thomas Macy,
Speaker: like Margaret Cherry Green, who spoke up about the genocide and they condemned it. I mean, this this is this is this is what every official should be speaking out against.
Speaker: And this story is recording, right? So the the statement of politicians and you know leaders should reflect you know the the the the opinion and the the will of the people who vote voted for them.
Speaker: And again, history is recording and this call is recorded and people one day, one hundred years from now, they will watch what we were speaking about, the stories we were talking about and the cries and the screams of our people in Gaza.
Speaker: And, you know, those who kept silent, they will be chained forever. Brother, most i want to thank you so much for sharing your time with us for your work. May Allah reward you abundantly, grant relief to your family, to the entire Palestinian people, and allow us to live to see them go free and receive justice. Yes, this video is recording and Allah is recording. And so you know our hope there and and do the work that we can, inshallah. Keep us updated on developments. Keep raising your voice. Inshallah, we'll do the same. And we hope to have you back again in the future, Inshallah.
Speaker: But thank you so much for joining us. We really appreciate it. Appreciate you and your work. Thank you so much. Thank you, Brother Mossab. And thank you all for watching today's episode of Care On Air. We do appreciate it. Please follow ah follow Mossab on social medias, on Instagram, etc. You can read his work there as well.
Speaker: And inshallah, we'll see you all next week for the next episode of Care On Air. In the meantime, assalamu alaikum. May peace be upon.
