Credit Caroline Llanes / Michigan Radio
Thousands of people gathered at the Ford Community and Performing Arts Center in Dearborn Sunday afternoon to express their support for Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. People of all ages sang, danced, wore kufiya scarves, and waved Palestinian flags large and small.
The United Nations says Israeli airstrikes have killed more than 180 Palestinians in the past week, and Hamas missiles have killed at least ten people in Israel.
Tensions escalated rapidly after Israeli police raided the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem and cut the cables to loudspeakers broadcasting prayers, as
The New York Timesreports. The tensions were exacerbated as Palestinian families waited to hear whether the Israeli Supreme Court would uphold evictions in the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood in East Jerusalem in favor of Jewish settlers.