Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

All right, today we have back on the show, honestly a fan favorite, one of my personal favorite guests,

and we have the added benefit of being local, so he is in studio.

Willie from our previous episode on Gaza Solidarity as Service. He has returned

from another trip to Gaza, this time for 36 days. He's been back for about a week, and I think

it's very helpful to catch back up on developments in Palestine, his experiences in Palestine,

etc. Most of you will remember him from the previous

episode, but for those who don't, Willie, can you kind of reintroduce yourself and explain

kind of who you are? Yes, my name is Willie. I am a local nurse here in Omaha, Nebraska,

in critical care. So I have been here for about eight years.

And I just returned from Gaza for my second mission trip during this genocide.

And, you know, I heard a lot from you folks after my first interview.

So I thought that it's really important for all of you, our listeners, to get a proper image of what is happening right now in Gaza and carrying on, piggybacking on

from the previous experience. Yeah. And, you know, this is obviously a fluid situation. A lot has

changed. We're going to get into.

Eventually, we're going to talk about Trump and the ceasefire, et cetera. But I think the place to start is kind of just walk us through this second trip. You were there for 36 days. How have things changed since your first trip? And just what was your, what was, how did you spend your time in Gaza and where in Gaza were you at so the process to go in was very difficult

Israeli will make it very impossible for you to go in so the first time I entered I

tried to enter day one. I was denied.

I had to return to Amanda Jordan.

But then two days later, they allowed me to go in.

So it was very, very cumbersome process again.

But this time I went to Al-Qaqsa hospital.

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