Pro-Palestine protests continue, unabated, from East to West
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Protesters in New York interrupt a progressive rally aimed at endorsing US President Joe Biden.
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Por-Palestine protest in Ghent, Belgium, on June 22, 2024 (Screengrab, X photo)
Protests in support of the Palestinian people are continuing across the globe, spanning from the US all the way to Europe and Asia.
In Ghent, Belgium, a pro-Palestine demonstration was held on Saturday. Demonstrators held flags and maps of Palestine.
Social media footage shows demonstrators waving Palestinian flags and maps and carrying posters that read "Student Intifada" and "End bloodshed and dehumanization now."
Some civil society organizations in Belgium have joined the demand to boycott "Israel", including significant groups such as 11.11.11, Vrede vzw, and the Ghent Coalition for Palestine, as well as Belgium's Deputy Prime Minister Petra De Sutter.
A throng of protesters flooded the streets of Gent, Belgium, to express their steadfast support for Palestine and rejection of the Israeli massacres in Gaza.🇵🇸 pic.twitter.com/FXeSpCof7j
— PALESTINE ONLINE 🇵🇸 (@OnlinePalEng) June 22, 2024
In Italy, Rome, Milan, and Messina held solidarity protests in support of Palestine over the weekend.
Protesters expressed being upset at how several Arab nations remain silent, or even complicit.
🪧 ‘Dear world, where is your humanity’
— Anadolu English (@anadoluagency) June 23, 2024
Hundreds of pro-Palestinian demonstrators stage protest in Italy to condemn Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza ⤵️ pic.twitter.com/o7p9Z59ZYl
Pro-Palestine protest disrupts progressives in New York rally
In the United States, demonstrators for Palestine disrupted a joint rally that included Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), and Sen. Bernie Sanders (D-Vermont).
Protesters brought together by Within Our Lives, a New York-based pro-Palestine organization, disrupted the joint demonstration led by the three US politicians on Saturday in support of US President Joe Biden in the forthcoming US presidential election in November.
Within Our Lifetime wrote in a thread on X that "endorsing Biden is endorsing the ongoing genocide in Gaza."
THE BRONX ❤️ PALESTINE‼️🇵🇸
— Within Our Lifetime (@WOLPalestine) June 22, 2024
Today, we joined @BXAntiWar and The Bronx Palestine Solidarity Committee (@ BXpalestinesolidaritycommittee on instagram) to demand that progressives do the bare minimum in solidarity with our struggle! pic.twitter.com/cOfcp8n5Cx
Pro-Palestinian protesters disrupted the pro-Biden rally chanting, “Intifada, Intifada”, and “Genocide Joe has got to go.”
According to a video released on X, the demonstrators scrawled messages on the buses and put stickers on the Bowman's campaign buses.
#NYC As AOC/Bernie/Bowman Bronx rally ended, protesters rushed to the campaign busses, defacing them with markers and stickers as they chanted "Intifada Intifada!" and "Genocide Joe has got to go!"
— Oliya Scootercaster 🛴 (@ScooterCasterNY) June 22, 2024
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Pakistanis denounce Israeli war crimes in Gaza
Pakistan saw mass protests condemning Israeli war crimes in Gaza and the flagrant violations of human rights.
The marchers shouted anti-US and anti-"Israel" chants, urging the government to terminate diplomatic ties with Washington and any other country that supports "Israel".
The boycott of pro-Israeli firms in Pakistan gained traction when protesters, largely students from educational institutions and religious seminaries, were arrested last week while attempting to conduct a demonstration in front of an international restaurant chain in Islamabad.
Police detained demonstrators calling for a boycott of pro-Israeli enterprises in the nation.
One protester told PressTV that the government of Pakistan is "afraid of the US," citing that demonstrations will end if the government of Pakistan fulfills one demand, that is, calling "Ismail Haniyeh, to offer condolences to him, and, to offer more support from the nation of Pakistan."
"They are afraid they held the aid package and they want the spare parts from the Jordan. So they're afraid and they do not represent the sentiments of the people of Pakistan."
The number of Palestinians killed since the start of the Israeli aggression on Gaza on October 7 has risen to 37,598 and those injured to 86,032, the Ministry of Health in the Gaza Strip confirmed on Sunday.
In its daily report, the Health Ministry stated that the Israeli occupation forces committed three massacres in 24 hours, killing a total of 47 people and injuring 121 others.
