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Thousands rally across Israel calling for Netanyahu’s resignation

Israeli police have arrested several protesters in Tel Aviv, who called for the resignation of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and early elections amid Israel’s continued war on Gaza.

‘War criminal’: Arab Americans rebuff Biden campaign outreach over Gaza

Arab Americans are angry – and they let US President Joe Biden know it.

“It’s unfathomable at this point in time that we’re trying to talk about electoral politics with a genocide unfolding,” said Abdullah Hammoud, mayor of Dearborn, a Detroit suburb. “This is not a time to talk about politics. This is a time for our humanity to be recognised, and for us to be sitting down with decision-makers and policymakers to talk about a change of course of what’s unfolding overseas.”


Demonstrators rally in Washington, DC, during a march for the people of Gaza

‘Honk your horn’: Pro-Palestinian US protest outside Blinken’s home

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators holding a sit-in protest outside US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s home in Virginia are encouraging cars driving past to “honk their horns”.

“Kids in Gaza have to hear bombs and drones Secretary Blinken. You are afraid of honking and have to instruct people not to honk???”, Hazami Barmada, an activist at the protest, wrote in a post on social media.

Arizona Democrats pass resolution calling for Gaza ceasefire

The state branch of the Democratic Party in Arizona has passed a resolution calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. The Arizona Democratic Party passed the resolution on Saturday at the party’s first meeting of 2024.

The measure also calls for the immediate release of captives from Gaza, the protection of civilians in Gaza and Israel, the delivery of adequate humanitarian aid to Gaza, and the establishment of a Palestinian state.

Demonstrators express solidarity with Gaza in three Swedish cities

Demonstrators have launched a sit-in in the Swedish city of Whitbury in solidarity with Palestine, according to a Facebook live broadcast of European Palestinian Media Centre At other demonstrations in the Swedish cities of Malmo and Göteborg, participants waved Palestinian flags and banners demanding an end to the Israeli war on the Gaza Strip, the Facebook page showed.

‘Children are dying’: 20,000 march in Spain’s capital against Gaza war

About 20,000 people marched in Madrid in support of Palestinians. Many carried banners and placards denouncing the “genocide” in Gaza. Some carried Palestinian flags and shouted slogans denouncing Israel. Others held signs thanking South Africa for bringing the genocide case against Israel to the International Court of Justice (ICJ).

“They have been without water, without food, without anything, for almost 110 days,” one Madrid demonstrator, Lobna Elnakhala, 54, said of the situation in Gaza. “Children are dying and living in a very difficult situation.” Some banners called for sanctions to be levied against Israel.


Thousands demonstrate in support of the people of Gaza in front of the City Hall in Madrid on Saturday

Jewish and Muslim leaders launch peace initiative in Srebrenica

Jewish and Muslim dignitaries have launched a joint peace initiative at the Srebrenica Memorial Center on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

“Anyone with a heart, anyone with a soul must have deep compassion and empathy for the suffering of Palestinian civilian men, women, and children desperately in need of humanitarian aid,” said the general counsel emeritus of the World Jewish Congress, Menachem Rosensaft, at the event.


Serbian forces massacred 8,000 Muslim men and teenagers in a genocidal act in Srebrenica in 1995

‘Resistance to occupation cannot justify criminal acts, just as the call to fight terrorism cannot justify the murder of civilians and collective punishment’, said Bosnian Grand Mufti Husein Kavazovic