Organizer Samha Ayesh, 21, is a Bay Area native with family in Palestine. He said he'd lost some friends in the recent conflict.
GUARDAIN PHOTO BY REBECCA BOWEActivists with Arab Youth Organization and a number of other entities staged a protest Aug. 6 outside the San Francisco Federal Building, where Rep. Nancy Pelosi's San Francisco office is located, calling on U.S. government to end aid to Israel.
“We’re here because humans are dying,” said Linda Ereikat, a 17-year-old Palestinian American who was born and raised in the Bay Area and recently spent a month visiting her grandparents in the West Bank.Read more »