Tens of hundreds of protesters packed the primary street in Pakistan‘s port metropolis of Karachi on Sunday to denounce the Israeli offensive of Gaza that has killed over 36,400 folks, largely kids and girls, since final October.
Organized by Jamaat-e-Islami (JI), the nation’s mainstream religiopolitical celebration, and attended by hundreds of girls and kids as effectively, the rally was a part of the worldwide motion “All Eyes On Rafah.”
Carrying tri-color Palestinian flags and banners, inscribed with anti-Israel slogans, the protesters began to collect on the Shahrah-e-Faisal Road at 4 p.m. native time (1100GMT) from completely different components of the town.
It was a scorching day because the South Asian nation has been within the grip of a extreme warmth wave, whereas protesters, a lot of them carrying the Palestinian scarf “keffiyeh,” stored pouring in.
“Stop Genocide in Gaza” was engraved on the primary banner displayed on an overhead bridge, whereas one other was inscribed with “Labbaik ya Aqsa” (Aqsa, we’re right here) and “Salute to Hamas resistance.”
A gaggle of younger protesters carried a 30-meter-long (roughly 100 toes) Palestinian flag as a mark of respect to those that died in Gaza.
A lot of Christians additionally took half within the rally.
This was the third main pro-Palestine march within the nation’s business capital this 12 months as Pakistan has seen large protest rallies following Israel’s onslaught.
“Free free Palestine,” protesters shouted in unison because the JI’s newly-elected chief, Hafiz Naeem-ur-Rehman, and different celebration leaders made a human chain on the stage.
“Israel is humiliating the humanity. The way its forces are bombing even those areas, which themselves have declared so-called safe zones,” Rehman mentioned in his handle.
He accused the U.S. of toeing a coverage of “bigotry” to permit Tel Aviv to invade Rafah by offering “all kinds of lethal weapons.”
“On the one hand, Washington claims it wants a cease-fire, and on the other, it continues equipping Israel with lethal weapons to carry on its onslaught,” he added.
He claimed that Arab leaders, as an alternative of supporting Hamas and Palestinians, “are trying to save their kingdoms.”
“We will not leave Hamas and Palestinians alone in their just struggle. The people of Pakistan, together with the ‘people with conscience,’ continue to support Palestinians,” he went on to say.
Israel has pounded the Gaza Strip in retaliation for an Oct. 7 assault by Hamas which killed some 1,200 folks.
More than 36,400 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza since Israel started its onslaught almost eight months in the past. The majority of these killed have been girls and kids, with over 82,600 others injured, in accordance with native well being authorities.
Vast tracts of Gaza lay in ruins amid Israel’s crippling blockade of meals, clear water, and medication.
Israel is accused of genocide on the International Court of Justice, whose newest ruling ordered Tel Aviv to right away halt its operation in Rafah, the place greater than 1 million Palestinians had sought refuge from the struggle.
Source: www.anews.com.tr