East Palo Alto Mayor Webster Lincoln faced criticism at Tuesday’s City Council meeting over a proposed proclamation to remember October 7, 2023, when militant group Hamas launched an attack on Israel, igniting the Israel-Hamas War.

The “Day of Remembrance” proclamation was proposed for Wednesday, three years after the assault against Israel, which killed about 1,200 people and became the deadliest attack against Jewish people since the Holocaust.

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Alise is a general assignment reporter with a focus on covering government, elections, housing, crime, courts and entertainment in San Francisco and on the Peninsula. Alise is a Bay Area native from San Carlos. She studied history at University of California, Santa Cruz and first started journalism at Skyline College’s school newspaper in San Bruno. She has interned for Bay City News and for Eesti Rahvusringhääling, or Estonian Public Broadcasting. She has covered everything from the removal of former San Mateo County Sheriff Christina Corpus to the divisive battle over the Great Highway on San Francisco’s west side. Please send her any tips.