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    Palestinian Americans on the Israel-Hamas war: 'We're not even allowed to grieve'

    Some Palestinian Americans in the U.S. say they feel abandoned by the U.S., and fear rising anti-Palestinian sentiment and Islamophobia at home.
    by Sandhya Dirks Oct 23, 2023 6 minutes
    Palestinians evacuate the area following an Israeli airstrike on the Sousi mosque in Gaza City on October 9, 2023.

    For more than two weeks now, Tariq Luthun has been unable to sleep.

    "I barely have time to engage in the act of living," he says. From his home in Detroit he's watching his family's home of Gaza be flattened, block by block.

    Inundated with images of bombs and rubble and broken bodies, he is at turns devastated and terrified. Sometimes he just feels numb.

    The bombing began as a response to Hamas' Oct. 7 attack on Israel, which left more than 1,400 Israelis dead. Israel says 222 hostages were taken over the border.

    Since then, Israel's bombardment of Gaza has killed more than 5,000, according to Palestinian officials. About 100 more have been killed in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The United Nations has said that over 1 million people in Gaza have been internally displaced.

    According to human rights groups, Gaza is in the depths of a humanitarian crisis, a direct result of Israel's bombing and "" of the enclave. Over the weekend, the first trucks carrying started to trickle through while that country to minimize civilian casualties.

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