Pro-Palestinian demonstrators demanded an Israel-Hamas truce on Saturday in London, Berlin, and Rome.
At least 7,000 pro-Palestinian demonstrators marched over the Brooklyn Bridge on Saturday in New York, USA.
Protesters brandished signs and banners with Palestinian flags and chants such as “Free Palestine.” Protesters carried placards that read, among other things, “Stop Killing Children,” “Freedom for Palestine,” and “Stop bombing Gaza.”
“My fear is that there will be no more Palestine,” stated one of the London protestors. Right now, Palestine is being saved, not liberated. I fear that they will vanish off the face of the earth.
At 3 p.m. (local time), the three-mile Flood Brooklyn for Gaza march got underway in front of the Brooklyn Museum in Crown Height. As they marched through the borough, the demonstrators publicly applauded the terrorist attacks on Israel by Hamas.
Queens protester Durion, 24, said, “Freedom by any means, land back by any means.” He stated, “I believe the settler state of Israel must be taken down”
Protesters carried placards that read, “Palestine Will Be Free, From the River to the Sea.” Around six o’clock (local time), the demonstrators, some of whom were scaling metal barriers and waving Palestinian flags, converged on the Brooklyn Bridge, causing traffic jams on the side heading toward Manhattan. They had traveled north along Flatbush Avenue to the Barclays Centre.
As a precaution, police officers stopped all traffic on the Brooklyn-bound side. Marie Edward, a different protestor, had earlier declared that Israelis were the true “killers” and supported Hamas’s October 7 operation.
A counter-demonstrator brandishing an Israeli and US flag yelled, “I stand with life, peace, and love.” Then, the marchers referred to him as a terrorist.
The Metropolitan Council on Jewish Poverty is led by Brooklyn Democrat and former City Councilman David Greenfield, who was criticized by protest organizers for organizing an anti-Israel demonstration on Shabbat in Crown Heights, a neighborhood with a significant Hasidic Jewish population, before the march.
Notably, on October 7, after Hamas attacked Israel, the latter began a counteroffensive against Israel. Israel is committed to eliminating Hamas.
The entry of more ground soldiers into Gaza on Friday night, according to Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, marked the beginning of the second phase of the conflict with Hamas.
“Defeat the murderous enemy and ensure our existence in our land,” he declared, is Israel’s mission. His remarks follow the Israel Defence Forces chief’s declaration, as published by The Times of Israel, that the military is currently conducting ground operations in the Gaza Strip to accomplish every goal of the conflict.
Netanyahu emphasized that the soldiers are a part of a three millennia-old Jewish combat history. Their sole objective, according to him, is “to defeat the murderous enemy, and to ensure our existence in our land.”
He emphasized that Israel’s war goals are quite clear, “destruction of Hamas’s military and governing capabilities; and returning the hostages home.”
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