10/5/2024–|Last updated: 10/5/202411:04 PM (Mecca time)
Demonstrations took place in several Arab cities – today, Friday – to denounce the ongoing Israeli aggression against Gaza, in parallel with the continued pro-Palestine movement in American universities and some European cities.
Demonstrations took place in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, and the city of Hodeidah, denouncing the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, while two marches were organized in the city of Taiz after Friday prayers, during which the participants condemned the international position towards the siege and violations taking place in Gaza, calling for the necessity of activating the decisions of international legitimacy regarding the Palestinian issue. .
Jordanians also demonstrated in the center of the capital, Amman, during which they saluted the Palestinian resistance, called for its support, and demanded the opening of the Rafah crossing and the intensification of sending aid to the besieged Gaza Strip.
In Morocco, the Moroccan Front for Supporting Palestine and Against Normalization organized solidarity demonstrations with Palestine in a number of Moroccan cities, and demonstrators in the city of Abu Al-Jaad chanted slogans of solidarity and demanded an end to the massacres in Gaza.
While the residents of the Khenifra region carried out a protest in front of the city’s mosque, raising Palestinian flags, the residents of the city of Fqih Ben Saleh organized a protest in support of Gaza, during which they chanted slogans saluting the steadfastness of the people of Gaza, as well as demanding an end to the bombing and massacres.
Demonstrators in the city of Tangier also raised the Palestinian flag in a protest in which they denounced normalization with the occupation, as part of stances and movements in support of Palestine throughout the Kingdom of Morocco since the beginning of the Al-Aqsa flood.
In Tunisia, today, Friday, civil society components organized a march in support of the Palestinian resistance towards the Palace of Conferences in Tunis, the capital, during which participants raised the flag of Palestine and the flags of the Palestinian resistance factions and chanted slogans in support of the issue and demanding the criminalization of normalization.
This march coincides with the opening of the general meeting in solidarity with the Palestinian people, organized by the Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights at the Palais des Congrès.
Universities movement
In the United States, student protests continue, as students in solidarity with the Palestinian cause at George Washington University re-erected tents on campus, two days after the police dispersed their previous sit-in.
The demonstrators chanted slogans calling for the intifada as the only solution to the Palestinian issue, and described the security forces’ dispersal of their previous sit-in as a disgrace that would haunt the capital’s mayor and police.
The demonstrators pledged to continue organizing demonstrations in front of the university campus until the demands of withdrawing investment in companies benefiting from the war in Gaza and dissolving academic ties with Israeli institutions are met.
American police forces arrested a number of students at the Massachusetts University of Technology during a stand organized by the protesting students in front of one of the university’s buildings, which they say houses Israeli march development laboratories. The police accused them of blocking the entrance to the building’s parking lot.
In Turkey, dozens of Turkish and foreign students at Ostim Technical University in the Turkish capital, Ankara, organized a temporary sit-in – today, Friday – to express their rejection of the continuation of the war on the Gaza Strip.
Students from the Turkish University itself and other universities participated in this gathering, as well as the Union of Arab Communities and civil society organizations. The participants prayed in absentia for the souls of the martyrs in the Gaza Strip.
They also provided their support to Columbia University through direct contact with students from that university who participated in the sit-in, rejecting the repressive policy followed by the United States and some Western governments towards students and academics, as they put it.
In Pakistan, hundreds of students from several universities participated in a protest march in the capital, Islamabad, to express their solidarity with the residents of the Gaza Strip.
In their chants, the participants expressed their rejection of the ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, and denounced the continued besiegement of the residents of Gaza in light of the closure of the Rafah crossing.
Students from the University of Cambridge continue their open sit-in in support of Palestine, demanding that the university administration withdraw its investments from companies they consider complicit in Israeli war crimes in Gaza. The students said that the university administration acknowledged receiving their list of demands, but has not yet responded to them.
The “Coalition of Cambridge University Students and Staff for Palestine” called for setting up a camp at the university’s King’s College, in solidarity with their counterparts in the United States and around the world, who are against the Israeli war on Gaza, and who reject the continued Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories.
Oxford University students in Britain continue their sit-in to pressure the university’s presidency to stop all its dealings with institutions and companies affiliated with Israel and to protest the war it is waging on the Gaza Strip.
The Oxford police inspected the student sit-in camp on the city’s university campus, with the aim of ensuring the safety of the protesters, she said, while the number of participants in the sit-in increased significantly.
The students say that they are determined to continue the open sit-in until the university responds to their demand to sever its relations with institutions that support Israel, while student sit-ins continued at other universities across the United Kingdom, including the Universities of Cambridge and London.
In France, accounts on social media platforms published scenes of a number of demonstrators gathering in front of the Paris Judicial Court, to support one of the students who was arrested by French security forces during their dispersal of the pro-Palestine Sorbonne University sit-in, demanding the immediate release of the detained student, stressing that peaceful demonstration is not a crime punishable by law. .
In Japan, platforms published scenes showing activists signing a huge petition, demanding that the government take a position on the military operation launched by the occupation army in Rafah.
The scenes showed activists gathering at the southern Shinjuku station exit, placing a large banner on the ground to sign it, and raising Palestinian flags, demanding their government to take a position on Israel’s operation in Rafah.
「ガザのための署名：民衆のバナー SIGN FOR GAZA:THE PEOPLE’S BANNER」
5/10 新宿駅東南口 pic.twitter.com/I4FH5iDNYl— 安保関連法廃止🌼自由と良心 武蔵野美術大学有志 (@musabianpo) May 10, 2024
This comes as the Israeli occupation forces continue their ground attack in the areas east of Rafah since last Monday, as part of their ongoing war on the Gaza Strip for the 217th day, leaving tens of thousands martyred and wounded amid a humanitarian situation described as catastrophic, and famine looming over the besieged Strip.
