NEW YORK: Some thousand demonstrators on Sunday gathered in Manhattan in solidarity with Palestinians as pro-Israel marchers counter-protested followi...
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators protest during the second day of the ongoing conflict between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, in Manhattan in New York City, US, October 8, 2023. REUTERSPIX: Some thousand demonstrators on Sunday gathered in Manhattan in solidarity with Palestinians as pro-Israel marchers counter-protested following a bloody escalation in the Middle East conflict.
“We are here in solidarity with the Palestinian people who are fighting 75 years of Israeli settler colonialism, settler violence and 16 years of military blockade of Gaza,“ said Munir Atalla, a 30-year-old member of the Palestinian Youth Movement group, which was among the demonstration’s organizers.“It’s impossible to view the events of this week, without first understanding the context that the Israeli regime is founded on violence...
Sarah Barqawi, 38, told AFP she came to Sunday’s rally “because my family is currently under siege in Gaza and are just waiting to know if they will be alive or dead, without any electricity, without any support, without any supplies.”On Saturday evening the New York branches of organizations including Jewish Voice for Peace and If Not Now marched to the Brooklyn home of Chuck Schumer, the Senate’s majority leader, to call “for an end to all US military funding to Israel.
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