Dima Mohammed, head of the United Platform for Solidarity with Palestine (PUSP), indicated that the “human cordon” also aims to call for an end to the siege, request unlimited humanitarian aid in the Gaza Strip and “a to put an end to the aggression [israelita] in towns, villages and refugee camps across Palestine, he said in statements to the Lusa agency.
Dima Mohammed said the initiative will start at 2:30 PM in front of Santa Maria Hospital and then continue to the US Embassy, the Israeli Embassy and the Alfredo da Costa Maternity Hospital, with interventions calling for peace in Palestine in Palestine. each of the locations.
According to the head of PUSP, who did not provide names, the interventions will be carried out by various personalities from Portuguese civil society, including health workers, journalists, artists and people from different religious communities and origins.
In front of the Israeli embassy in Lisbon, the non-governmental organization Jews for Peace and Justice will give a short speech calling for an end to the conflict, Dima Mohammed added.
The Human Cord for Palestine, he continued, is based on the legacy of solidarity that occupied the streets of Lisbon in September 1999, “in the enormous demonstration of solidarity with the people of East Timor and their struggle to end to the Indonesian occupation”.
The war in the Gaza Strip was sparked by an unprecedented attack by Hamas on Israel, which killed 1,200 people on October 7.
In retaliation, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas and launched an air and land offensive that caused a high level of infrastructure destruction in the Gaza Strip, a small area of 2.3 million people.
The Israeli offensive killed 18,600 people in the Gaza Strip, according to the latest figures from Hamas, which has controlled the Palestinian enclave since 2007 and is considered a terrorist group by Israel.
Source: DN
