San Francisco Supervisors Advance Gaza Cease-Fire Resolution | KQED

Preston’s resolution includes a specific reference to the Oct. 7 Hamas attack on Israel, which resulted in the deaths of an estimated 1,200 people, according to Israeli officials. But the language does not explicitly condemn Hamas for its actions that day, a statement that Supervisor Matt Dorsey, who cast the sole vote against the resolution, has pushed for.

In the two months since the attack, Israel has responded with a brutal barrage of air strikes on Gaza and an ongoing ground invasion that has killed more than 23,000 Palestinians and displaced nearly 85% of the population, according to the Gazan authorities.

In San Francisco City Hall on Monday, dozens of public commenters, including many doctors and health care workers, lined up for hours to urge the the  Rules Committee — comprised of Dorsey, Ahsha Safaí and Shamann Walton — to approve Preston’s original resolution without considering any significant amendments.

“My family members in Gaza just relocated to a makeshift tent because their home in northern Gaza was reduced to rubble,” Zaynah Hindi, cofounder of Reem’s, a popular San Francisco restaurant, told the committee. “My cofounder has lost at least 40 members of her family in Gaza.”