SANTA CRUZ — Around 60 community members gathered on the steps of the Santa Cruz County Courthouse Friday afternoon for the Know Their Names demonstration, intended to honor and recognize the thousands of Palestinian children killed in the Israel-Hamas war by reading their names aloud throughout the day.

“It’s just so heartbreaking what is being done to the Palestinian people,” said Know Their Names organizer Allan Fisher. “This callous disregard for human life is appalling to us, and we wanted to read the names of the perished children to honor them and recognize that the Palestinians have suffered so much injustice.”

According to reporting from the Associated Press earlier this week, more than 64,000 Palestinians have been killed in the nearly two-year war in the Gaza Strip. The Gaza

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