Dozens gathered at Cal Anderson Park for a rally supporting Palestine. The group Answer Coalition, an antiwar movement called for Palestinian freedom and opposed the U.S. government’s aid to Israel on the group's global day of action. “We stand with the Palestinian resistance and against the billions of dollars the U.S. sends to Israel,” Taylor Young, an organizer for the rally said. As a humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip continues, its impacts are far-reaching, even touching those in Seattle. Clarissa Perez became friends with Karam when he was an exchange student at Chief Sealth International High School in West Seattle in 2018.