From New York, this is Democracy Now.

I cannot believe myself for sure.

I cannot yet comprehend that this is real and that Allah is with us.

Tears of joy as Egypt releases longtime political prisoner Ala Abdel Fata as he reunites with his family in Cairo.

Other than for a few months, Allah has been in prison since 2013 on various charges, including spreading false news, quote unquote. His family and supporters say he was

targeted for his pro-democracy activism. He was a leading voice in the 2011 Arab Spring protests that toppled the Mubarak dictatorship and was repeatedly targeted by the current president, Abdel Feth El Sisi.

We'll speak with Al-Az An, the renowned author, Adef Suef, and with journalist Sharif al-Qadouz, who knew him well.

Then to Chicago, where ICE agents threw a Democratic congressional candidate to the ground.

This past Friday, I was assaulted by ICE alongside some other protesters.

That day was probably the most harrowing day of protest I have ever attended in my life.

Partly because anything we dealt with didn't hold a candle to what the people

trapped inside that facility are enduring.

Then California Governor Gavin Newsom signs the No Secret Police Act into law, banning all law enforcement, including ice agents from covering their faces while conducting raids.

I'll be signing a bill first in the nation saying enough to ice unmask. What are you afraid of?

What are you afraid of?

We'll speak with the ACOU of Southern California and with New York Congress member Nidia Velasquez.

She's introduced the no masks for ISAC into Congress.

All that and more coming up.

Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the Warren Peace Report.

I'm Amy Goodman.

Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 38 Palestinians and injured another 190

over the past 24 hours and estimated half a million Palestinians remain in Gaza City,

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