"As a tenuous ceasefire was taking hold in mid-October, The Oaklandside sat down with Lujain Al-Saleh, an Oakland resident with family in Gaza, to find out what it's been like as a Palestinian American to witness so intimately the long two years of war in Gaza, which the United Nations determined, in September, was a genocide. After we spoke, Israel violated the ceasefire with airstrikes across Gaza that killed more than 100 people, including at least 46 children, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health."
"Al-Saleh has lived in the Bay Area for a decade and in Oakland for six years, part of an Arab-American community in California that is larger than that of any other state. She has studied environmental science and has a master's degree in public health; she now works at a statewide environmental justice organization called Communities for a Better Environment, focusing on pollution in Richmond, especially from the Chevron refinery. And she's been a member of the Arab Resource and Organizing Center, or AROC, for eight years."
Lujain Al-Saleh, an Oakland resident with family in Gaza, experiences ongoing trauma as the two-year war in Gaza intensifies and the United Nations determined it to be genocide in September. A fragile mid-October ceasefire was breached by Israeli airstrikes that killed over 100 people, including at least 46 children, and injured hundreds more. Al-Saleh lives in the Bay Area, works in environmental justice addressing pollution in Richmond, and participates in longstanding Arab-American community organizing. She remains connected to family via WhatsApp, wakes daily to images of destruction, and supports local efforts for ceasefire resolutions and an arms embargo.
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