On today's show, Issa Amro will discuss the present and future of Gaza and the West Bank.
GUEST OVERVIEW: Issa Amro is a Palestinian activist based in Hebron, West Bank. He co-founded and served as the coordinator of the grassroots group Youth Against Settlements from 2007 to 2018. Amro advocates for nonviolent resistance and civil disobedience to address the Israeli Occupation of the Palestinian Territories. In 2010, he was named "human rights defender of the year in Palestine" by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. In 2013, the United Nations Human Rights Council expressed concerns about his safety due to harassment from Israeli soldiers and settlers and a series of arbitrary arrests. Currently, Amro faces 18 charges in an Israeli military court. In May 2017, Bernie Sanders, along with three U.S. senators and 32 congressmen, wrote to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson urging Israeli authorities to reconsider the charges against Amro.