Worldwide rallies against Israel’s war on Lebanon, Gaza
People staged mass protests across the world in denunciation of Israel’s war on Gaza and Lebanon. The demonstrators also expressed outrage at Israel’s assassination of Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah.
Israel has killed more than 41,500 Palestinians since it launched its merciless offensive in October 2023. Israel launched the war after some 1,200 people were killed in a retaliatory attack by Palestinian resistance groups.
The regime has also launched a deadly war on Lebanon, killing more than 1,600 people there.
In Sweden’s capital Stockholm, hundreds of people took to the streets to show their anger at Israel’s atrocities against Palestinians and Lebanese.
“Hands off Lebanon,” and “Free Palestine” filled the air. Swedish artist and activist Samuel Girma called Israel “a terrorist state,” and urged the boycott of trade with the regime following “terror attacks on Beirut and Lebanon.”
Similar protests unfolded in Finland’s capital Helsinki, where demonstrators demanded an immediate end to Israeli operations in Lebanon.
In Paris, protesters gathered near the Innocents Fountain, holding banners that read “End the genocide in Gaza,” and “Boycott Israel.”
Protesters also marched from the Levent Metro Station to the Israeli Consulate in Istanbul, chanting, “Murderer Israel, get out of Palestine,” and “Murderer Israel, get out of Lebanon.”
Protests were also organized in Indian-administered Kashmir where the demonstrators urged their government to halt arms deals with Israel and to stand against the escalating violence.
In Australia, thousands rallied in cities and towns around the country, calling for a cease-fire to the conflicts in both Gaza and Lebanon.
People in some Arab countries also took to the streets on Saturday night.
In the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, hundreds of Palestinians marched through the city in support of Gaza and Lebanon.
Participants in the march vowed to continue with the resistance against Israel and avenge the killings of Nasrallah and slain Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, stressing, “Palestine’s message is loyalty to the resistance in Lebanon.”
Iranians also staged similar protests across the country against Israeli airstrikes in Lebanon that killed Nasrallah.
Hundreds of people also protested near the Israeli embassy in the Jordanian capital Amman on Saturday evening.
People carried pictures of Nasrallah and demanded “revenge for his blood and the blood of the martyrs.”
In the Moroccan capital Rabat, people gathered in front of the parliament building to condemn Nasrallah’s assassination, chanting slogans like “the resistance will not die,” and “Nasrallah, rest, we will continue the struggle.”
Around 4,000 people also gathered in the Pakistani capital Islamabad and 3,000 thousand others in the southern port city of Karachi during rallies and funeral prayers for Nasrallah.