The conflict between Israel and Hamas has already caused thousands of deaths and injuries, between soldiers and civilians, in both territories.
The conflict between Israel and Hamas has already caused thousands of deaths and injuries, between soldiers and civilians, in both territories.
Demonstrations in support of Palestine have taken to the streets in recent hours in several cities around the world, urging Israel to stop hostilities in the Gaza Strip, where the population of the enclave faces bombings and a critical shortage of goods.
As the war between Israel and the Islamist Hamas movement enters its third week, and on the day a small amount of aid entered Gaza, pro-Palestinian protesters gathered in the rain at Marble Arch, near Hyde Park in London, before to march towards the area where the main institutions of British power are concentrated.
Waving Palestinian flags, according to an Associated Press report, participants called for an end to the blockade of Gaza and the Israeli airstrikes launched after a brutal incursion into southern Israel by the Islamist group Hamas, which controls the enclave.
British authorities urged protesters to take into account the pain and anxiety felt by the Jewish community.
London’s Metropolitan Police says it recorded a 13-fold increase in reports of anti-Semitic crimes in October compared to last year, while reports of anti-Muslim crimes doubled.
Police said there were some episodes of disorder and also reported cases of “hate speech” during the protests, but “the majority of the protest activity took place within the law and without incident.”
In Spain, hundreds of pro-Palestinian protesters occupied a hotel in the center of Barcelona this Saturday for around an hour in protest against the confrontation in the Middle East.
According to the local police cited by the Efe agency, between 90 and 100 people participating in the pro-Palestine demonstration entered the lobby of the Hotel Cortés, owned by an Israeli magnate according to the organizers.
The protesters, activists from different movements, including unions, accessed the balconies of the façade, removed the flags of several countries that were flying there and replaced them with Palestinian flags.
With this action they intended to denounce the “genocide of Palestine” and international inaction in the face of Israel’s attacks.
The police highlighted that, after an hour inside the establishment, the protesters left the place on their own, although it is not known at the moment if any arrests or damage occurred.
In Australia, thousands of people marched in central Sydney this Saturday shouting “Shame, shame, Israel” and “Palestine will never die.”
Gaza authorities say more than 4,300 people have been killed in the territory since the start of the war.
In turn, more than 1,400 people died in Israel, most of them civilians killed during the deadly Hamas raid on October 7.
Israel continued bombing targets in Gaza this Saturday, ahead of an expected ground offensive.
A small relief to the humanitarian situation in the enclave came this Saturday when 20 trucks carrying humanitarian aid were authorized this Saturday to enter the territory through the southern Rafah border crossing with Egypt, which, however, was closed again.
The war sparked protests across the Arab world and elsewhere on Friday, including in the occupied West Bank, where Palestinians burned tires and threw stones at Israeli military checkpoints. Security forces responded by firing tear gas and live ammunition.
Crowds gathered in Lebanon, Israel’s northern neighbor, in Iraq, at the country’s border crossing with Jordan, in Jordan itself, in cities and towns across Egypt, in Turkey’s capital Ankara, and in the most populated city of Istanbul, and in Indonesia. , Malaysia, Morocco and South Africa.
In New York, hundreds of protesters from Muslim, Jewish and other groups marched toward U.S. Sen. Kristen Gillibrand’s Manhattan office, many of them chanting “cease fire now.”
Police later arrested dozens of protesters who blocked Third Avenue outside Gillibrand’s office, sitting in the street.
In Mexico City, dozens of people gathered outside the Israeli embassy on Friday night, lighting candles and chanting “Free Palestine.”
In a sign, Rome’s Jewish community on Friday remembered the more than 200 people believed to have been detained by Hamas, setting up a long Shabbat table for them outside the capital’s main synagogue and empty chairs for each of them. the hostages.
On the back of each chair was a pamphlet with the name, age and photograph of each missing person and on the table were candles, wine and braided bread normally eaten during the Friday night meal.
The Islamist group Hamas launched a surprise attack in southern Israel on October 0 with the launch of thousands of rockets and the incursion of armed militiamen, taking two hundred hostages.
In response, Israel declared war on Hamas, a movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip since 2007 and is classified as terrorist by the European Union and the United States, bombing several of the group’s infrastructure in the Gaza Strip and imposing a total siege. to the territory with a cut in the supply of water, fuel and electricity.
The Rafah terminal, in the south of Gaza and the only passage to Egypt, will allow humanitarian aid to reach Palestinian territory.
The conflict has already caused thousands of deaths and injuries, between soldiers and civilians, in both territories.
Source: TSF
