{"id":31085,"date":"2024-01-12T12:36:28","date_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=31085"},"modified":"2024-01-12T12:36:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T20:36:29","slug":"pro-palestine-youth-rally-in-sf-draws-one-of-the-palestinian-students-who-was-shot-in-vermont","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/pro-palestine-youth-rally-in-sf-draws-one-of-the-palestinian-students-who-was-shot-in-vermont\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Palestine Youth Rally in SF Draws One of the Palestinian Students Who Was Shot in Vermont"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-18-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-31087\" srcset=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-18-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-18-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-18-150x113.png 150w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-18-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-18-1536x1152.png 1536w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-18-200x150.png 200w, https:\/\/occupysf.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/image-18.png 2000w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>11 JANUARY 2024\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/news\/\">SF NEWS<\/a>\/<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/author\/joe-kukura\/\">JOE KUKURA<\/a>  (SFist.com)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several hundred protesters marched on Market Street Wednesday night calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, and among them was one of the three Palestinian college students who was shot in Vermont on Thanksgiving weekend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you saw&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFMTA_Muni\/status\/1745248698546926079\">tweets from the SFMTA Twitter account<\/a>&nbsp;starting around 5 p.m. Wednesday saying things like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFMTA_Muni\/status\/1745258153271591355\">Protest march now crossing Market and 3rd<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SFMTA_Muni\/status\/1745251320607686717\">#FMarket will see delays along Market<\/a>,\u201d you pretty much figured it was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2023\/12\/24\/police-arrest-4-people-after-union-square-pro-palestine-protest\/\">another pro-Palestine protest<\/a>. And indeed that was the case, as NBC Bay Area reports that&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcbayarea.com\/news\/local\/vermont-shooting-victim-pro-palestinian-rally-san-francisco\/3419198\/\">\u201chundreds\u201d rallied in support of a Gaza ceasefire<\/a>&nbsp;in a youth rally protest that started at the Embarcadero and headed up Market Street.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-embed-handler wp-block-embed-embed-handler wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Vermont shooting victim speaks at pro-Palestinian rally in San Francisco\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GgPgxiBX5OI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>But that same report points out there was one very notable protester in attendance. One of the protesters was 20-year-old Haverford College junior Kinnan Abdalhamid, one of the three Palestinian students who was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/11\/26\/us\/palestinian-students-shot-burlington-vermont\/index.html\">shot in Vermont on Thanksgiving weekend<\/a>&nbsp;in what is being investigated&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/nation\/officials-investigate-potential-hate-crime-after-3-palestinian-students-shot-in-vermont\">as a possible hate crime<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cA man shot us unprovoked while we were walking down, speaking half Arabic, half English, about the homework we had to do,\u201d Abdalhamid told NBC Bay Area.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abdalhamid is visiting the Bay Area, as he reportedly has family here. We should clarify that Abdalhamid is a different shooting victim than 20-year-old Hisham Awartani, who was actually&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2023\/12\/04\/one-of-the-palestinian-students-shot-in-vermont-was-born-in-sf\/\">born in San Francisco<\/a>. Awartani\u2019s injuries were far more severe, and he remains paralyzed from the chest down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Abdalhamid notes that the November shooting is hardly the only abuse he and his family have received since the Israel-Gaza conflict escalated in October.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cMy cousins have been spat on, punched, and those are the areas that\u2019s supposed to be minimal violence and it\u2019s not even under the governance of Hamas,\u201d he told NBC Bay Area. \u201cAs soon as there\u2019s no collective response to violating human rights on a mass scale, you could see how that could get normalized and go downhill very quickly for everyone.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s protest came on the heels of Tuesday\u2019s vote by the SF Board of Supervisors to approve a resolution&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2024\/01\/09\/sf-supervisors-pass-gaza-ceasefire-resolution-mostly-pro-palestine-audience-goes-bananas-celebrating\/\">calling for a ceasefire in Gaza<\/a>, as the Gaza death toll has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/jan\/08\/the-numbers-that-reveal-the-extent-of-the-destruction-in-gaza\">reached 23,000<\/a>, following the October 7 Hamas attacks that killed 1,200 Israelis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/sfist.com\/2023\/12\/04\/one-of-the-palestinian-students-shot-in-vermont-was-born-in-sf\/\">One of the Palestinian Students Shot In Vermont Was Born In SF [SFist]<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image: @loligotsuspend1&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/loligotsuspend1\/status\/1394885853734866946\"><em>via Twitter<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>11 JANUARY 2024\/SF NEWS\/JOE KUKURA (SFist.com) Several hundred protesters marched on Market Street Wednesday night calling for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza conflict, and among them was one of the three Palestinian college students who was shot in Vermont on Thanksgiving weekend. When you saw&nbsp;tweets from the SFMTA Twitter account&nbsp;starting&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/01\/12\/pro-palestine-youth-rally-in-sf-draws-one-of-the-palestinian-students-who-was-shot-in-vermont\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1712],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31085"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31088,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31085\/revisions\/31088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}