Ahmed Bedier hopes to tell the story of the more than 1,300 Palestinians who have died due to the recent conflict in Gaza.
Ahmed Bedier, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, spoke to an audience of about 75 people in the Reitz Union Rion Ballroom Tuesday night to enlighten them on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Gaza.
The event, "Gaza: A Struggle for Humanity," was sponsored by Islam on Campus to show the Palestinian side of the conflict.
Bedier said the reason for Palestinians' frustrations is the Apartheid Wall, a 436-mile long, 25-foot-high wall separating families from each other, children from their schools and farmers from their land.
He also showed the death toll for the Gaza conflict: nine Israelis and 1,314 Palestinians.
"All casualties are wrong, but let's compare the numbers," he said.
Bedier displayed pictures of children killed due to the conflict.
"These children didn't choose to be born in Gaza," Bedier said. "They are innocent in all of this, yet they are still suffering the consequences."
Neda Ahson, a political science and business junior, said she came because, although she is Muslim, she wasn't able to answer questions about the conflict in Gaza.
"I didn't know the whole situation," Ahson said. "Now I know what is actually going on."
Jonathan Bull, a political science junior and vice president of external relations for Islam on Campus, said many people aren't informed because of the media's selectivity when choosing what to air.
What he doesn't understand is when people justify what is going on in Gaza.
"For me, every human life is valuable," Bull said. "I won't compromise on that."
