{"id":33840,"date":"2024-05-20T11:29:18","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:29:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/occupysf.net\/?p=33840"},"modified":"2024-05-20T11:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-05-20T18:29:21","slug":"solidarity-marches-held-across-globe-to-demand-cease-fire-in-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/occupysf.net\/index.php\/2024\/05\/20\/solidarity-marches-held-across-globe-to-demand-cease-fire-in-gaza\/","title":{"rendered":"Solidarity Marches Held Across Globe to Demand Cease-Fire in Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pro-Palestinian activists from the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign participate in the National March for Palestine on May 18, 2024, in Dublin, Ireland. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Photo: Artur Widak\/NurPhoto via Getty Images)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organizers held rallies in the U.S., Europe, and Asia to mark Nakba Day and condemn Israel’s bombing and starvation of Palestinian civilians.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

JULIA CONLEY<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

May 19, 2024 (CommonDreams.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one United Nations official on Saturday said<\/a> that “brand new words” are needed to adequately describe the devastation Israel<\/a> has wrought across Gaza<\/a> in its U.S.-backed military assault, tens of thousands of people across the globe marched in solidarity with Palestinians to demand an end to the “ongoing Nakba.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The marches were held to honor Nakba Day, which was marked on May 15\u2014the 76th anniversary of the mass displacement of 700,000 Palestinians who were forced from their homes when Israel declared statehood in 1948. The protesters demanded a cease-fire in Gaza, where Israeli forces have killed at least 35,456 people since October, the majority of them women and children.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Protesters in London carried signs reading, “Solidarity is a verb,” and “The Nakba never ended” as they marched through Whitehall, close to the home and office of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who covered the first months of Israel’s bombardment and evacuated Gaza in January, joined the marchers and told the crowd that mass protests around the world have given Palestinians hope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“I didn’t believe that I would stay alive to stand here in London today in front of the people, who saw me there under the bombing,” said Azaiza. “Occupation is using all the weapons against us, the bombs, the killing, the starvation, the apartheid in the West Bank, and now killing the people and forcing them to leave their lands… I did my best to show you, and I believe you will do more, we all together will do more to stop this genocide.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

"You make us as the people of Gaza start to feel hope again"

Powerful speech from Palestinian photojournalist @azaizamotaz9<\/a> at the Nakba 76 March for Palestine in London.#FreePalestine<\/a> #CeasefireNOW<\/a> #Nakba76<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/CR5idQ6RCc<\/a><\/p>— PSC (@PSCupdates) May 18, 2024<\/a><\/blockquote>