We’re tuning in to the court’s livestream here: cand.uscourts.gov/judges/jsw/

Plaintiffs rebuttal to the Dept of Justice: “Here the question is a legal one: whether the actions of the US fail to prevent a genocide. And uphold the genocide convention.” These are not policy decisions, but a legal one. #WeChargeGenocide

Plaintiffs: “The law must be applied to foreign policy. And no one, not even the president, is above the law.” #WeChargeGenocide #StopArmingIsrael

Reporting from AJ+’s Dena Takruri!

Judge White presses the DOJ, who have yet to answer clearly: HOW does the state implement of the genocide convention to guarantee relief? DOJ: The state states that congress has outlined their implementing as criminal proceedings against individuals who violate the treaty.

Dr. Omar Al Najjar is giving testimony on Zoom from a hospital in Rafah City in Gaza. He is in sitting in the hallway on the floor of administrative building. He grew up in Khan Younes. His grandparents were forcibly displaced in 1948 from Yaffa.

Dr Al Najjar closes with this harrowing statement: “I share a glimpse of a heavy burden in my heart. I have lost everything in this world. My home was targeted, the family house, the mosque, my neighborhood, my friends I haven't seen in a while and many I have lost, my professors

Abu Ful on his own family’s situation due to the genocide: “My own family is affected by this, my father’s side of the family lost 60 members, 15 in 1 strike in the north. We are still unable to retrieve the bodies of many of them who remain uner the rubble

Laila Al-Haddad is next to give testimony. She gives powerful testimony on why she is here today: “Israeli forces have masacred numerous members of my family with US arms support, political support and i felt it was my duty as an american whose taxes and govt have been directly

Very emotional moment in the court as Laila El-Haddad describes the horrors her family has endured in the last 16 weeks - Her surviving critically injured cousin had to collect the body parts of his mother and bury her in a mass grave because there was nowhere else to bury them.

“Laila is describing the toll this has had on her family here - her children are suffering because she cannot give them the attention and care they need: “I tell them, what can I do, my family is being killed on my dime” Laila is describing her memories in Gaza - taking her son

Follow AROC #FreePalestine #AbolishICE live tweeting the Federal Court case against President Donald J. Trump Secretary Antony Blinken for their complicity in the genocidal war in Gaza

Monadel of U.S. Palestinian Community Network: “we have lost 7 members of my family. One of whom was a 4 year old girl named Ward. Ward in Arabic means flower. I was wondering how many more flowers should we cut before the whole world recognizes that these are people who have been targeted for no reason?”

The Bay Área is standing with billions of people around the world to say #CeasefireNOW !

Pro-Palestinian messages painted outside the Ronald V. Dellums Federal Building U.S. Courthouse in Oakland. Inside, a judge was hearing a case brought by Palestinian-rights groups accusing President Biden and top officials of aiding genocide in Gaza. 📸: Noah Berger / Special

Basim El-Karra, one of the plaintiffs states that he filed this case because “it is the least I can do to help stop the genocide of my family and my people.” During the break, while standing outside the courtroom, he learned that his cousin was killed and two are missing.

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