Thousands of people demonstrated in support of residents of the Gaza Strip in the West Bank and several Arab countries
Several thousand people demonstrated on Friday in the West Bank and in several Arab countries to show their support for the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. “Liberate Gaza!” »chanted hundreds of Palestinians who walked the streets in Ramallah, in the West Bank, brandishing flags of Hamas but also of other Palestinian movements, noted a journalist from Agence France-Presse (AFP).
At least 5,000 people also demonstrated in Amman, Jordan, to demand the cancellation of the peace treaty between Jordan and Israel, and to denounce the bombings carried out by Israel against the Gaza Strip. The demonstration began in front of the large Husseini mosque, in the heart of the Jordanian capital, in the presence of a large police force, AFP journalists noted.
“No to the Wadi Araba agreement”the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty signed in 1994, could be read on a banner. “Wadi Araba is not peace, Wadi Araba is surrender”, chanted the demonstrators, many of whom wore Palestinian keffiyehs on their heads or shoulders. Some also condemned the doubts about the death tolls broadcast by Hamas. In Zarqa, located around twenty kilometers from Amman, around 2,000 people took part in a demonstration, and hundreds of others in Mafraq, Tafileh and Aqaba.
In Lebanon, demonstrations took place in many cities after Friday prayers, notably in the capital, Beirut, which saw supporters of the Lebanese Shiite Hezbollah march, and in Tripoli, the country’s second city. In Yemen, a massive demonstration was organized in the capital Sanaa, controlled by Houthi rebels, close to Iran. Thousands of protesters gathered after prayers, waving the Palestinian flag and chanting “Death to the United States, death to Israel”.
In Iraq, a demonstration brought together around a hundred people in Tahrir Square in Baghdad. Same thing in Libya, in Tripoli, where demonstrators took over Martyrs’ Square, a vast esplanade in the heart of the Libyan capital. Some waved the Palestinian flag and children trampled an Israeli flag, according to AFP images.