People gathered at the Taipei Grand Mosque in Taipei City, where attendees installed a “Birds of Solidarity” display to mourn over 15,000 child victims and urge an immediate ceasefire in the besieged Palestinian enclave, according to Gino Lopez, a Taipei-based social media activist.
The protesters marched through major streets in Santiago, chanting slogans denouncing the continued aggression and demanding immediate action to press the Israeli occupation to halt its attacks.
“Primarily instead of making this a student issue, I think what we’re really focused on is keeping the focus on Gaza,” she said, noting that more than 35,000 people including 14,000 children have been killed in the besieged enclave since Israel launched its war on 7 October last year.
Participants at the demonstration criticized the international community for remaining silent in the face of Israeli aggression against Gaza residents.
The campaign, which was already endorsed by well-known activists, including former British Labour lawmaker, Keith Vaz, Burmese activist and genocide scholar, Maung Zarni, and Malaysian social activist, film director, educator and political comedian, Hishamudin Rais, is asking people to post videos in support of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, using ...
Footage on social media shows dozens of students gathering in support of Palestinians, chanting “Free Palestine, free Palestine, and Palestine will be free.”
The capital's protest, which stretched from the First of May Square to the Martyrs' Square, covering a distance of approximately five kilometers, witnessed the participation of tens of thousands of demonstrators, who chanted slogans including "Palestine, the land of martyrs" and "The people of Algeria stand with you, Palestine."