A grassroots movement born in the Bay Area is at the center of national headlines after a violent attack at one of its events in Boulder, Colorado, on Sunday.

The group, Run for Their Lives , was founded in 2023 by San José attorney Shany Klein , after Hamas fighters in Israel killed around 1,200 people and took 251 hostages. Now, participants in 230 chapters around the world march weekly to demand the release of the remaining hostages in Gaza.

Authorities say Egyptian national Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, used a makeshift flamethrower and yelled “Free Palestine,” before throwing Molotov cocktails into the crowd at Boulder’s Pearl Street Mall, injuring eight people.

Among them was a relative of a Jewish Community Relations Council Bay Area staff member, who was badly burned, according

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