Over a thousand protesters have gathered in front of the Israeli embassy in central London to show outrage against Tel Aviv’s ongoing aggression and attacks on the Palestinians, Press TV reports.
Protesters attending the London rally have expressed anger and frustration at Israel for engaging in widespread violent clashes against the Palestinians over the past days.
The unrest has grown across the region after the burned body of a 16-year-old Palestinian boy was found in a forest on July 2.
“I’ve come down here to show solidarity with the Palestinian people and obviously to support their freedom and their justice, and also to protest against the collective punishment which is constantly occurring in Palestine when terrible tragedies occur, which all of the Palestinian people get punished for and get blamed for. There are hundreds of people who are trying to just live in peace in that area,” said Adam Lee, an activist at the rally.
Protesters at the event also condemned the media and called for an end to biased and one-sided coverage of the news related to the occupied Palestinian territories.
“There’s a lot of coverage of the tragedy concerning the three Israeli children who have been killed, but since the second intifada…I believe, there’s been hundreds and hundreds of Palestinian children killed amounting to 1 every three days,” said Lee.
Israeli forces killed several Palestinians and arrested hundreds of others, including Hamas members and lawmakers, as part of the military operations that were purportedly carried out in search of the three settlers, who Israel claimed had gone missing on June 12.
Tel Aviv claims the Palestinian resistance movement, Hamas, is responsible for the death of the three. However, Hamas rejects the allegation.
GMA/AB/SS
No comments:
Post a Comment