For Zein Rimawi, a 71-year-old Palestinian New Yorker and Arab American community leader in Brooklyn, mornings are the hardest. That’s when he says he has time to scroll through social media on his computer and see the latest images and reports from the Gaza Strip.

“Honestly, it’s very difficult,” he said on a recent Friday at the An-Noor Social Center in Bay Ridge, pointing to a photo of a malnourished child on his screen. “What makes our life more difficult, we cannot do anything.”

Rimawi, who hails from the West Bank and founded the center in an area dubbed “Little Palestine” for its large Palestinian population , is one of thousands of New York City residents with roots in the Palestinian territories. As Gazans face what the United Nations on Tuesday called “ record starvation and

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