About 100 people marched Sunday from the Capitol through downtown Salem in support of a free Palestinian state as Israel’s war in Gaza enters its third month.
The march was organized by Salem’s chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America. In a Facebook event, the group called the ongoing war a “genocide” and urged an end to the funding of massacres.
The war in Gaza began following an Oct. 7 terrorist attack by Hamas, which killed at least 1,200 people, according to the Washington Post. Israel declared war on Hamas, which governs the Gaza Strip, and has since heavily bombarded the enclave, killing more than 17,700 people, according to the Gaza Health Ministry. About two-thirds of those killed are women and children.
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Photographer Ron Cooper and his wife Penny moved to Salem in 1969 to take a job as photographer at the Oregon Statesman (later the Statesman Journal). Their three children, Monica, Kimberly, and Christopher, attended and graduated from Salem public schools. Cooper retired from the Statesman Journal in 2001 but, has continued his passion for photography in many ways, including as a photographer for the Salem Reporter.
