Pro-Palestine demonstrations in Arab and int’l cities denounce Israeli aggression against Palestinian people

Thousands demonstrated around the world today in condemnation of the ongoing Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. In Jordan, thousands demonstrated in the capital Amman, and several Jordanian governorates to express their solidarity with the Palestinian people and their rejection of the ongoing aggression. In the Qatari capital, Doha, a mass demonstration was organized, with participants raising Palestinian flags and chanting slogans denouncing the Israeli occupation. Morocco witnessed massive demonstrations in several cities denouncing the aggression against Gaza. In Iraq, hundreds of demonstrators gathered west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, in solidarity and support of Gaza and its people. Demonstrators raised banners denouncing the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip and demanded a boycott of all Israeli, US and European goods and products that support the occupation. The demonstrators also called on the international community to intervene to stop the br utal war targeting civilians and defenseless people inside the Gaza Strip. A demonstration also took place in Muzaffarabad, in Pakistan's Azad Kashmir region, in solidarity with Gaza. Dozens of American demonstrators closed one of the main bridges in the city of San Francisco, California, causing a traffic jam in some areas of the city. The demonstrators raised banners demanding an immediate ceasefire in Gaza. For its part, the Palestinian American Women's Association, known as the "Code Pink" organization, organized a demonstration in Washington, DC, to urge members of the Senate to demand a ceasefire in the Gaza Strip. Also in Washington, DC, dozens of people demonstrated wearing medical uniforms, with their hands painted in blood-like red paint to express the occupation's targeting of hospitals and the killing of doctors, the displaced seeking refuge inside, and premature babies. In the city of Glasgow, Scotland, hundreds of school students and their families demonstrated to demand a ceasefire in Gaza . The city of Red Bridge, near the British capital London, witnessed a similar demonstration by hundreds of students and their families. Many schools in Britain have also seen demonstrations in response to the calls by human rights organizations that support Palestinian rights. In Japan, supporters of the Palestinian cause organized a protest in front of the Israeli embassy in Tokyo to protest the Israeli aggression against Gaza. The protesters raised banners condemning the Israeli aggression and chanted slogans demanding that Israel stop the war immediately and the killing of Palestinian children and civilians. They also demanded freedom for Palestine. In South Korea, protesters erected a 'monument' made of shoes, depicting the shoes left behind by the thousands who were killed in Gaza, and lit up candles to express their rejection of the killing of children and infants in the Gaza Strip. In Indonesia, hundreds demonstrated in front of the stores of several international companies, calling for boycottin g them for their support for the Israeli occupation army. Source: Palestine news and Information Agency – WAFA – English