11/29/2024–|Last updated: 11/29/202412:56 AM (Mecca time)
Today, Friday, solidarity activities and demonstrations were held in many countries to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which is the second time that the occasion has been renewed in light of the continuing genocide committed by Israel in the Gaza Strip.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) said in a post on the X website, “It is the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People. The plight of Palestine refugees remains the longest refugee crisis in the world without a solution.”
The agency added, “Over the past year, Gaza has witnessed the most intense bombing targeting civilians since World War II.”
It’s the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
The plate of the #PalestineRefugees remains the longest unresolved refugee crisis in the world.
In the past year #Gaza has experienced the most intense bombardment of a civilian population since World War… pic.twitter.com/xkDNGP0XS3
— UNRWA (@UNRWA) November 29, 2024
For his part, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed that the international organization will continue to stand in solidarity with the Palestinians and support their inalienable rights to live in peace, security and dignity.
Guterres had previously directed sharp criticism of the Israeli war on Gaza, and said, “This is unimaginable. The level of suffering in Gaza, and the level of death and destruction, is unparalleled in everything I have witnessed since I became Secretary-General” in 2017.
In commemoration of the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People… gatherings of activists in front of government headquarters in #London Demands an end to arming Israel and compliance with the International Criminal Court memorandum Report: Muhammad Al-Madhoun#Gaza_War #News pic.twitter.com/3t3YPr8e76
– Tel Aviv Tribune Channel (@AJArabic) November 29, 2024
On the other hand, demonstrations continued in several cities to commemorate the Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
In the Lebanese capital, Beirut, female activists demonstrated near the headquarters of the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
The demonstrators raised Palestinian flags and banners denouncing the international and Arab silence regarding the genocide in Gaza, and deploring the “fall of the international community.”
Similar demonstrations also took place in Santiago, the capital of Chile, and in the city of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
In the British capital, London, activists demonstrated in front of government headquarters – yesterday, Thursday – to demand an end to arming Israel and compliance with the arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Galant.
On November 29 of each year, many events are held to commemorate the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People, which was approved by the United Nations in 1977.
The occasion falls this year, and Israel continues its war on the Gaza Strip for the 14th month in a row, where about 149,000 Palestinians were martyred and injured, most of them children and women, amid massive destruction and famine that killed dozens of children and the elderly.
