From New York, this is Democracy Now.

So they hit North Carolina with ice raids.

And they hit North Carolina at ice raids right at the same time,

people are raising concerns about Medicaid and health care and racist voter redistricting.

And some people think that that means what we have to do is go to the ice raids

and forget about the other

thing. But what we know in this movement is it all connects.

It all connects.

Protest are continuing in North Carolina after federal agents arrest at least 370 people

in immigration raids. We'll speak to Bishop William Barber.

We'll also talk to Dean Fulahan, who's been picked by New York Mayor-elect Zerun Mamgani

to serve as deputy mayor.

I'm grateful to him for returning to public service, and I know he has chosen to do so

because he believes in our administration's

ability to deliver universal child care, making the slowest buses in America fast and free,

and freezing the rent for more than 2 million rent-stabilized tenants in this city.

We'll look at how Mamdani plans to fund and pull off his affordability agenda as mayor of New York. And we'll talk to

Sarah Lee Whitson, co-author of the new book, From A Partate to Democracy, a blueprint for peace

in Israel, Palestine. All that and more coming up. Welcome to Democracy Now, Democracy Now.org, the War and Peace Report. I'm Amy Goodman. The United Nations, says Israel's war on Gaza has created a human-made abyss that will cost more than $70 billion in reconstruction over several decades. According to the UN report,

from 2023 to 2024, Gaza's economy contracted by 87 percent, leaving a gross domestic product per

capita at $161 among the lowest in the world.

This comes as Israel repeatedly violates the U.S. brokered ceasefire.

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