On September 2, 2024, 10News-ABC San Diego KGTV posted on Facebook: “Israel on Sunday said it had recovered the bodies of six hostages in Gaza, including a young Israeli-American man who became one of the most well-known captives held by Hamas as his parents met with world leaders and pressed for his release.” The post included photographs of the six hostages, including US citizen Hersh Goldberg Polin, who were starved and executed by Hamas terrorists.
Hussein commented on the Facebook post: “I read that an israeli airstrike was the cause of their death, as is the case for the conservatively estimated 186 thousand Palestinians that have been killed by the israeli occupation forces. The U.S. needs to stop funding these war crimes.”
The claim that “186 thousand Palestinians” have been killed is a purely speculative number of deaths in Gaza that could be attributed to Israel’s war against Hamas.
On Saturday, October 7, 2023, approximately 2,900 heavily armed Hamas terrorists breached Israel’s border with Gaza. They executed numerous war crimes on civilians, including mass murder, beheadings of children, rape of men and women, torture, kidnappings and mutilation.
Hamas broadcast videos of their butchery on social media, often to victims’ accounts for families to see. Israel retaliated with a war called “Swords of Iron.” As of November 10, 2023, approximately 1,200 Israelis, the vast majority of them civilians, were murdered during the attacks. Hamas kidnapped 242 Israelis, including at least 30 children. At least 3,500 people were wounded, many severely.
A terrorist detained by Israel admitted he raped an Israeli woman when he broke into a kibbutz house during the October 7, 2023 attack. In March 2024, a former hostage of Hamas publicly stated she was sexually abused and tortured while in captivity.
For more information on the October 7, 2023 terror attacks, see the Canary Mission page on Hamas.
On May 10, 2024, Hussein spoke [00:02:09] at a walk out at the University of California San Diego, organized by Healthcare Workers for Palestine. The walkout was held to protest against the university dismantling a student “Gaza solidarity encampment.”
On April 17, 2024, Columbia students and anti-Israel activists set up what they called the “Gaza Solidarity Encampment” on the university's main lawn. The encampment was the first of its kind and reportedly inspired a wave of as many as 140 protest encampments across North American campuses and over 20 globally.
Encampment participants protested Israel’s war against Hamas and demanded that the universities “divest from companies and institutions that profit from Israeli apartheid, genocide and occupation…” At least 14 schools pledged to meet a number of the protesters' demands. Some allowed police to dismantle the encampments, which led to mass arrests in a number of cases.
Protesters reportedly harassed Jewish students. Some blocked Jews from campus facilities, while others restricted access to only those wearing special wristbands or who declared they were "not a Zionist." Some Jewish students were told [00:00:02] to “go back to Poland” and [slide 3]: “Yahoodi [Jew], f**k you!” as they walked on campus.
At the walk out, Hussein said: “...we strongly condemn the reckless escalation and endangerment and we will not accept this conduct anywhere near our students, our faculty, our staff, and our community…”
Protesters leading the walkout were seen [00:01:18] holding a banner from the Healthcare Workers for Palestine, that read: “WE TOOK AN OATH…DO NO HARM = DO NO GENOCIDE.”
On March 13, 2024, Hussein participated in a pro-Hamas protest in San Diego. In a video interview posted on Instagram, wearing a keffiyeh, a Palestinian flag, and a tag that reads: “NOT A TARGET,” Hussein said [00:00:18]: “...We’re here with a vast amount of– and diverse community members, Healthcare Workers for Palestine San Diego, Palestinian Youth Movement.”
Hussein went on: “This is a global day of action occurring across the United States. We’re holding this section here in San Diego, in front of the building of where Alex– Senator Alex Padilla’s office is. For 158 days, the senator has been silent in the face of a genocide…”
Hussein continued [00:02:26] "Our members in the solidarity community are asking for divestment; we are demanding divestment from all companies and corporations on campuses...to divest its financial investments that help the Israeli occupation continue its military occupation and apartheid of Gaza..."
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