Published February 22,2025
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Pro-Palestinian protesters banged pots and pans outdoors of the American Embassy in Madrid Saturday, calling for an finish to ethnic cleaning in Gaza and criticizing the US administration’s plan for the enclave.
“Palestine is not for sale,” was the slogan of the protests, that are additionally going down in dozens of different cities all through the weekend.
Spanish news company EFE reported that round 1,000 protesters participated within the demonstration in Madrid.
The organizers, Solidarity Network Against the Occupation of Palestine (RESCOP), mentioned in a press release that US President Donald Trump’s plan to show Gazza into the “Riveria of the Middle East” will proceed Israel’s ethnic cleaning.
“The EU is totally blocked, silent, and paralyzed, especially since the new high representative Kaja Kallas took office. The EU should end its complicity with Israel’s crimes,” the group demanded, calling for it to droop the bloc’s affiliation settlement with Israel.
The group additionally referred to as on Spain to interrupt all ties with Israel and apply extra sanctions.
Organizers expressed reduction {that a} ceasefire deal had been reached however described it as fragile and inadequate to guard Palestinians.
“It does not end Israel’s policy of ethnic cleansing and brutal repression. It does not end decades of colonization… and it certainly does not erase decades’ worth of crimes committed by Israel that have been denounced by the UN,” the assertion reads.
RESCOP added that it might not cease organizing protests till Spain ends all “complicity with Israel” and “Palestine is free from the river to the sea.”
“We must demand the reconstruction of all the destruction caused by Israel,” the group added.
Source: www.anews.com.tr