As Israel’s response to the Oct. 7 terror attack by Hamas enters its fifth week, Coloradans with ties to the Gaza Strip are mourning relatives who have been killed as they grapple with how Am…
Organizer Abdullah Elagha, center, holds a Palestinian flag during a rally and march to show support for Palestinians near the Colorado Capitol in Denver on Oct. 29, 2023. Colorado’s Palestinian communities have been deeply affected by Israel’s military strikes in the Gaza Strip, in a conflict set off by Hamas’ Oct. 7 terror attack in Israel. Elagha, a Denver resident, says he has lost more than 30 family members in Gaza.
After decades of conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, they can feel the wheel of generational trauma turning again, as they wonder how many more people will die. “I can’t shake it. I can’t. I can’t erase it from my mind,” Wahdan said. “None of us can. None of us can go to sleep and not think of these families, of how they’reReema Wahdan speaks during a rally and march to show support for Palestinians near the Colorado Capitol in Denver on October 29, 2023.
“I didn’t know I carried this until I started seeing my grandmother going through this, how multi-generational trauma is circular,” Zuaiter said. “… The stories that my grandmother told me, it’s happening now. It’s like it’s been hardwired into your psyche.” On Oct. 25, Elagha learned that three more family members had been killed in Gaza. That brought his family’s growing total to 32, including children.
“I feel like I’ve had to temper what my community needs and wants me to say,” she said. “Because I’m in this balance of — I’m the elected , but how do I say these things diplomatically, threading the needle so I can maintain relationships but advocate for my people, advocate for our history our heritage; making people understand this is an illegal occupation and that all of this cannot — cannot — be distilled down to a tweet.
More than 100 Jewish constituents and allies took part in a second protest calling on Colorado congressional representatives to sign on to the Ceasefire Now resolution to save the lives of Palestinian civilians during an action at the offices of Rep. Diana DeGette in Denver on Thursday, Nov. 2, 2023. In a statement Thursday, DeGette didn’t endorse the ceasefire resolution but did call for a “humanitarian pause” in the conflict between Israel and Hamas.
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