Global outrage at Israel’s mounting onslaught after shattered cease-fire
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets in many countries to protest against Israel’s crimes in the Gaza Strip as the regime has resumed its air and ground offensive in the Palestinian territory since last month.
In Tunisia, the protesters called for the closure of the US Embassy and expulsion of its ambassador from the African country.
In the capital Tunis, dozens gathered outside the US Embassy in protest at Israel’s war on Gaza and Washington’s complicity in the genocide that has claimed over 50,000 lives.
“America is the other face of Zionism. (...) They’re not just supporting genocide in Gaza they are participating in it,” declared Bashir Khodri, head of the Ansar Palestine Association.
Students, leaders and activists of different political parties and common people also staged demonstration across Bangladesh to condemn the ongoing Israeli attacks on Gaza and demanded an immediate end to Israeli’s barbarity.
The protesters also called for boycotting Israeli products.
At some places, the protesters formed human chain and some groups held protest processions and rallies, demanding immediate stop of the ongoing genocide and mass destruction in Gaza.
Similar protests were also held in several major cities of Pakistan, including Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad. During the protests, the Pakistani demonstrators expressed their solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. Pakistanis also staged a general strike in support of Palestinians in Gaza.
A coalition of Palestinian political movements – including Fatah and Hamas – called a global strike to protest what they described as “the genocide and the ongoing massacre of our people.”
In the occupied West Bank, Palestinians also held a general strike demanding an end to the Gaza war.
Shops, schools and most public administrative offices were closed across the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967.
Lebanese students and British youth also staged small protests in Beirut and London to denounce the Israel’s crimes against Palestinians.
Israel resumed its deadly air strikes on Gaza on March 18, ending nearly two months of cease-fire with Hamas. More than 1,200 Palestinians have been killed since Israel restarted its military offensive in the Palestinian territory.