Volunteers work tirelessly to mobilise actions to raise consciousness for Palestine in New York City

Ziyaad Zeineldine was walking past The People's Forum in New York City one afternoon in November when he spotted a Palestinian flag in a window.

Unaccustomed to seeing Palestinian symbols in midtown Manhattan, he stepped into the sprawling office on 37th Street and discovered one of the city's key hubs for mobilisation and action on Palestine.

The organisers inside invited him to join what they called a "volunteers meeting" the following Monday. 

Aggrieved by the devastating loss of life in the war on Gaza - by early November around 10,000 Palestinians, including more than 4,000 children and 2,700 women had already been killed by Israel in the besieged Strip, today it is over 31,000 dead - Zeineldine agreed to return. 

In doing so, Zeineldine became part of an army of hundreds of volunteers across the five boroughs in New York as well as across the Hudson River in New Jersey, where Zeineldine lives, making their way each Monday evening to Manhattan to discuss, plan actions, and mobilise others to bring an end to what they say is a "genocide" in Gaza.

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How a disparate group of volunteers galvanised pro-Palestine advocacy in NYC