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SvennoJ on 26 May 2024
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Palestine solidarity march in Senegal



Pro-Palestine protesters shout down top German diplomat

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators angry at the German government’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza have disrupted a citizens’ forum featuring Germany’s Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock.

Several demonstrators began shouting at Baerbock, accusing the German government of one-sidedness in the war and demanding that Berlin halt arms deliveries to Israel. Some held banners reading “Stop the genocide”.

Baerbock responded calmly at first, saying Germany was working to ensure that both Israelis and Palestinians could live in peace.

But she clearly grew frustrated as the tumult in the theatre increased. “There are no threats here!” she shouted at one participant.

One protester who identified herself as an “anti-Zionist Jew” said that, when it came to the war, freedom of expression was being restricted in Germany. With Germany’s help, she said, Gaza was being reduced to “rubble and ashes”.

Thousands demonstrate demanding return of captives in Tel Aviv

During a funeral procession in Tel Aviv, protesters have accompanied the family of an Israeli captive whose body was recovered from Gaza earlier this week to call for returning all still held in the besieged enclave.

The body of Hanan Yablonka was among three found during a late Thursday military operation in a tunnel in northern Gaza’s Jabalia, the Israeli military said.

“Hundreds of family members of the hostages and thousands of members of the public came to support the Yablonka family and all the families of the hostages, united in their call for the immediate return of all hostages,” according to an organisation of captives’ families.