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Visitors Weigh In On Fate Of West Philadelphia's Clark Park Memorial Honoring Lost Palestinian Lives
"I don't see how it's creating any harm by doing this," Maggie Ross said. "I'm definitely in support of it."
November 30, 2023
PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- A memorial in West Philadelphia's Clark Park honoring the Palestinian lives lost to war in Gaza is causing some controversy after city officials said they planned to remove it.
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People came to grieve at the memorial and mourn the thousands of Palestinian lives lost in the ongoing conflict in Gaza between Hamas and Israel.
"There isn't a good justification for losing all those lives," Matthew Graber said. "We're in the stall of this cease-fire now, not knowing if it will hold or if there will be more killing of innocent people."
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