Residents of the Paterson, N.J., community say nearly everyone there knows someone killed in the Israel-Hamas war.
Grief is tangible in the New Jersey neighborhood known as Little Ramallah, home to one of the largest Palestinian populations in the U.S.
Every person in Little Ramallah seems to have a loved one who was killed in the last two weeks. Abukwaik lists friends among the thousands killed since the outbreak of the, which means"uncle" in Arabic. These days, Abukwaik is very quiet, he hardly speaks to the customers he used to banter with every day.
But a more pressing concern, she notes, is reaching a ceasefire and an end to the mounting death toll.
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