From Istanbul to London, huge demonstrations took place today, Saturday, to support the Gaza Strip and demand a ceasefire and the immediate entry of humanitarian aid.
In Istanbul, Turkey, a number of political parties organized a protest in the center of the city, rejecting the continuation of the war on the Gaza Strip, and demanding a ceasefire.
According to press reports, the crowd that gathered at the demonstration was the largest since the start of the war, and included a large number of Turkish parties and organizations.
The participants raised the flags of Türkiye and Palestine, amid strong condemnation of the continuation of the war to this day.
In London, a massive march took place in the streets of the center of the British capital, all the way to the government headquarters in Downing Street, to demand an end to the war on Gaza and to denounce the attacks that have been ongoing for 21 days.
This is the third demonstration in London, in support of stopping the war in the Gaza Strip, since the start of the war, as crowds come out every Saturday, and the last demonstration last Saturday included 300,000 people.
And yesterday, Friday, hundreds of Jewish supporters of peace gathered at the famous “Grand Central” train station in the center of New York City, USA. With the aim of demanding an end to the war on Gaza and declaring an urgent ceasefire.
The demonstrators occupied the main passenger hall, forcing the authorities to close the station. They were wearing black T-shirts and carried banners with phrases such as: “Palestine must be free,” “We want an immediate ceasefire,” and “Be with us.” "The right side of history."
In Paris, also yesterday, protesters went out in marches denouncing the war on Gaza, raising banners saying: “They shut down the Internet, but not our hearts... Stop the war.”
In Tunisia, demonstrations and protest events took place yesterday, Friday, in support of the Gaza Strip. Protesters also organized a massive demonstration in front of the French Embassy in Tunisia.
Events have accelerated since Friday evening, with Israel launching air strikes and shelling from land and sea, accompanied by a cut off of communications from Gaza, with the start of a ground incursion, the largest since the beginning of the battles on October 7.
The Israeli army said this morning that its forces are still in the field, while acknowledging the presence of clashes with Palestinian factions in the two axes of the incursion into Beit Hanoun (north) and the Bureij area in the centre.
More than 7,326 people were killed in the Gaza Strip, most of them civilians, including about 3,038 children, according to the Ministry of Health in Gaza, but the numbers did not include new victims who fell during the night, with the difficulty of communicating between health agencies or evacuating the injured and dead from the bombing sites.
p>It is no longer possible to call ambulance crews in light of the disruption of communications in the Gaza Strip and the intensity of aerial bombardment.
The United Nations warned on Friday that it fears an “unprecedented barrage of tragedies” in the small strip, which extends over an area of 362 square kilometers