4/8/2025–|Last update: 05:26 (Mecca time)
The reactions to the mass demonstration in Australia on Sunday continued to sympathize with the Palestinian Gaza Strip between Australian repercussions and an Israeli anger.
The New South Wales Police in Australia announced that the number of participants in the demonstration reached 90,000, organized a massive march calling for the stopping of the Israeli war in Gaza and the starvation policy targeting the residents of the Palestinian sector.
The Acting New South Wales Commissioner, Peter Makina, said that the estimates of the number of participants in the protest amounted to about 90 thousand people, and described the crowd as the largest that he is witnessing on the famous bridge of Sydney Port.
However, the local media quoted the organizers that the number of demonstrators ranged between 200 thousand and 300 thousand people, and thousands of others joined the protests supporting the Palestinians in the city of Melbourne.
The solidarity raised a list on which the names of the martyrs were written from Palestinian children, and large crowds of demonstrators arrived at the headquarters of the American consulate in Sydney.
The scene of the demonstrators crossed the Sydney port bridge, as they challenged the difficulty of the weather from heavy rains and strong winds to protest the Israeli military operations in the Gaza Strip and drew attention to the humanitarian crisis there.
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Aid and anger
In terms of repercussions inside Australia, the government pledged Monday morning (local time) to provide more humanitarian aid to women and children in Gaza, one day after the mass march.
Australian Foreign Minister Beni Wong announced the provision of an additional Australian dollars (13 million dollars) as humanitarian aid to the Gaza Strip, raising the total pledges of Australia to “more than 130 million dollars to help civilians in Gaza and Lebanon” since October 2023.
But the repercussions on the Israeli side were different, as Foreign Minister Gideon Saar and the opposition leader Yair Lubid attacked the demonstration in Australia.
In an English post on X, Saar wrote, claiming that what he described as “the distorted coalition between the radical left and the fundamentalist Islam, unfortunately, the West drags to the margin of history.”
As for Lapid, he attacked the demonstrators in Sydney, and said that they were “walked under the flags of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.”
In turn, the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot focused in its coverage of the demonstration on some demonstrators carrying banners depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the form of the leader of Germany, “Nazi”, Adolf Hitler, and waving others with banners bearing comments such as “(Palestine) from the sea to the river” and “Israel kills children in Gaza”, as well as chanting chants from “stop the genocide” Palestinians, “as many of them appeared wearing the Palestinian keffiyeh.
