Rafah Crossing, Biden Islamophobia Plan, Portland Teachers Strike
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Days of air strikes and goth's largest refugee camp, hind devastation. Meanwhile.

wounded palestinians and some foreign customers are finally being allowed into egypt.

Working nonstop to get americans out of gaza as soon as safely .

as possible is up first from M. P. R. News, the White house says IT is working on a plan to combat islamic bia.

I think a lot of people are going to have extraordinary citizen right now with this White house.

How can the bite administration repair frae relationship with muslim americans?

And no school in portland organ today as the teachers union continues its first ever strike, demanding Better pay and benefits. Stay with us will give you the news. You need to start again.

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More people are expected to be allowed to leave gaza today through the rough of board, a crossing with .

egypt as several hundred, including foreigner and severely wounded gazans s. Got out yesterday. And president jovan says the U. S. Is working with regional partners to get more people out and desperately needed aid in.

We're continuing working to significantly step up the flow of critical humAnitary arian assistance in the gossip. The number of trucks entering gaza continues to increase significantly, but we still have a long way to go all .

this while israel continues pressing further in to gaza in its war against hamas, and as international condemnation of civilian casualties, especially from air strikes in the jabalia refugee camp.

continues to grow. Journey is self from television to tell us more about all this is npas illicit nd warney. Elissa, welcome. Thank you for joining us.

Good morning.

So can we just start with the people who are getting out? What can you tell us about who they are? yes. So today.

the list of people allowed to leave includes about four hundred people with american passports, according to a list provided by homos. The list also includes people with passports from other countries, including croatia, mexico and the netherlands. And IT is a time consuming process at the border, so it's not clear everyone on the list from today will actually get to egypt.

Yesterday, we saw the first people to leave gaza since the conflict began. There were critically injured palestinians. Like you said, there were a handful of american aid workers and about three hundred people with foreign passports from places like australia, bulgaria and Jordan. Our producer and aspa was there on the gaza side of the crossing this morning and talked with humanistic fy, who was there at the crossing with her mom, sina.

from my family there in gaza and my family there. So kind of scared inside, but not so happy to leave because i'm going to be able to be safe. It's been so difficult living in gaza in the last two and five days. I think this is our only chance to get to a Better place and a safer place just for the sake of the kids. So we know a little bit mobile .

who's getting out what, if not our relief supplies going in for the people who desperately need IT.

Yeah, there have been an increased number of eight trucks allowed into gaza in recent days. At first, you know, was just twenty or thirty trucks with things like medical supplies and food, but that has more than doubled. Israel has agreed to allow a hundred trucks of humAnitarian and eight a day, eight organization state.

It's still not enough, given how dire the situation is there. I talked to have a tb about this. He is the country director of the N G.

O. Care in the west bank and gaza. And she's been talking to her colleagues in gaza who are sheltering in crowded homes, sometimes with up to one hundred people in one house. They are running out of water and they are running out of food.

My colleague mention death yesterday. They had the last bread that they try to save for the kids in two days. Report.

unless to tell us where is israel's ground assault stand.

So according to the israeli military, ground forces pushed further into gaza. They are now in the outskirts of gaza city. Before the war, that city had a population of about half a million people in IT.

The israel military for weeks has told civilians to leave the north of gaza and had south, but the U. N. Estimates there are still three hundred thousand palestinians there. And israel has said again and again, they believe that homos is Operating extensively in tunnels underground, under very densely populated areas, under hospitals, under places like the dubai, a refugee camp, which they struck repeatedly. And as long as they believe hmos is doing that, the israeli military says there are gonna continue to go after what they see as legitimate targets, despite this growing international outrage over civilian deaths in pairs.

Elisa and add warning elisa, thank you so much for this reporting.

Thank you.

President biden is announcing new plans to develop a strategy to counter islamophobia.

but what might have been seen as an overtures to muslims comes as the administration is facing widespread frustration from muslims in amErica over the israel M P.

R. Red house. correct. Asm holt has been reporting on this, and she's with us not to tell us more bad.

Good morning.

good. Tell me more about this frustration. What is the White house hearing?

There is a deep, cynical m among muslims in the united states right now because of the president's support for israel's military actions in gaza. And there was this striking poll that was released this week by the arab american institute that found support for biden has plumaged IT shows. Support had fAllen from fifty nine percent in twenty and twenty to now just seventeen percent.

Likewise, the survey of muslim voters found a staging number of people say they cannot vote for baLance real election. And Michelle, i've covered campaigns for years. I will acknowledge that arab muslim voters are a sliver of the electorate, but this is a major shift in a very short amount of time, and that is extremely unusual.

And the president knows that many muslim voters are unhappy. You heard about IT directly when he met with a handful of muslim leaders at the White house. The group included rami naja chibi. He's a community organizer in chicago and more than an islamic bia plan. He wants to see the specific issues they asked the president about during the way house meeting addressed and acknowledged .

having a lot of people are going to have extraordinary cissy right now with this White house until and unless they're much more explicit ways that we begin to see policy shifts, including the other dehumanization of palestine, an here and across the globe.

as this is a very sort of delicate insight issue with me, this is a present who campaign on healing the soul of the nation. And this is a very fought time. And you're talking about some very deep divisions.

Yeah I spoke with multiple people who feel like the White house policy in the middle ast is itself contributing to islam hob at home. I'm hearing even from some muslims who work within the administration. And you know, when IT comes to this specific islamophobia initiative, some people feel like it's a distraction from the fundamental issue of civilian deaths in gaza.

The White house has invested also in a very important anti semitism plan. And some people told me that they felt like this is slapton bii initiative, was an aftertaste thought, you know, then there are others who say it's gonna be a chAllenge for muslim voters to hear this message from biting, given the anger about middle st policy. But IT is still important. And here's sallam al mario with the muslim public affairs council.

I think it's an error on our part of american muslims to consider this a uh throwing a bone to our community。 It's not it's very serious and it's very important um not just for our community but for american society.

you know but it's not easy. He pointed out that in this current climate, there are new chAllenges, specifically around how support for palestinians may be cast as anti american, or perhaps anti media.

We will hear more about this in coming days, but as briefly as you can, what is this White house planned to counter islamabad? A what does the announcement .

itself is not much. So there is no strategy yet. This is basically a plane to come up with a strategy it'll be spearheaded by the White house domestic policy council in the national security council. In a months before this immediate crisis in the middle east, the White house did meet with a number of muslim organizations who had expressed concerns about things like the terrorism watch list in harrassed mate airport. So this has been a work in progress, but there is certainly a new file urgency to show some action that is.

corresponded as a house for P. R. Thank you so much.

My pleasure.

Schools in portland organ are closed for a second day today as a teacher strike continues. This rike is the first .

for port land public schools, which search around forty five thousand students. The portland association of teachers have been negotiating with the district since their last contract, spired, in june. Here's rearch Adams from the portland public schools bargaining team.

We have already offered a cost of living increase that is more than our increase in revenue. We know the unions bargaining team believes that is insufficient, but we cannot responsibly accept their proposed twenty three percent increase.

Police may like a reporter with K O I N, T, V. And port land organ is with us. Now to tell us more about at a morning, lisa.

Good morning, macho.

Least I just tell us a little bit more for you. What about the conditions that LED to the strike? At least the conditions of the teachers, say, LED to the strike.

There's really just some key issues. Obviously higher pay. They want smaller class sizes and more planning time. Now we talk about the pay the district is offering currently a four point five percent the first year, three percent each of the next two teachers, one almost double that.

And what are you hearing from teachers?

They are strong in support of a strike action. There were hundreds that turned out for a rally yesterday. They believe the district really can find the money.

It's about two hundred million dollars by making cuts and further depleting the reserve fund. Now the president, in fact, of the national education association, was here, importantly, yesterday for ralles. It's really a sign we may be seeing more these strikes around the country.

you know, other parts of the country we've also heard that is not just to pay, but it's also the working conditions like the conditions that the buildings are in, for example, or things like that lack of heat, lack of A C. Is that part of this as well?

Definitely, these are some of the issues they are discussing at the table for sure.

Now school closures, look, are very disruptive to students and their families. do. Do you have a sense of, I know this is early days. Do you have any sense of, you know, how the broader community feels about this?

Yes, I haven't talking to a lot of parents says they were getting ready for this big because the teachers had given their tending notice um and there was a sense this was going to happen even before that. Families really want more for the teachers of having the kids home during the pandemic. I think they're painfully aware of how much work IT is to help kids with their academics, behavior issues, mental health issues. Very grateful that the teachers take on that responsibility of caring for many, many students in their day and .

say a bit more, if you would, about how what officials from important public schools are saying.

They were saying that their news commences yesterday that to meet the teacher demand, they would have to make massive cuts laying off teacher shorting the school year. Possibly even the governor, who is a labor supporter, says the teacher demands woods and the district of a financial Cliff district is blaming the state for not giving them enough money for education. But what happened in organ back in one thousand nine hundred ninety, is that voters passed to measure, to limit the property taxes, which essentially pushed the biggest burden paying schools to the state through income taxes.

So what's next? Do we have a sense of when the two sides might return to the .

bargaining table? I talk with both sides, and they both tell me that friday they will both be at the bargaining table. But essentially what this means is no school for a second day today or on friday, which was a schedule day off.

That is the survey of K O I N T V. Important, please. Thanks so much for joining us.

Thanks to.

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