Group raises Palestinian flag in the Loop, calling attention to Gaza humanitarian crisis: ‘Flies high with strength’

As Palestinian flags fluttered in the wind outside the Daley Center downtown, Rama Atieh recalled her father’s experience of becoming a refugee when he was just 1-year-old.  

“Their lives as refugees were never the same. The flavors of the sea and those olives and figs were a distant memory, and the sense of belonging — elusive,” she said. “Never again did my father or his parents glimpse over the hills of East Jerusalem.”

Atieh spoke in front of hundreds in the Loop Saturday afternoon...