Protests in the occupied West Bank after Haniyeh assassination
A protest has been going on in downtown Ramallah condemning the killing of Ismail Haniyeh, and similar demonstrations have been going on across the West Bank, bringing life to a halt amid a general strike.
We’ve been hearing calls during these protests for Palestinian unity, this is a demand we’ve been hearing again and again as people want the leadership to come together and bring divisions between Fatah and Hamas to an end.
They’ve been reading the news of a “national unity” agreement with apathy and they want to see action being taken and the deal implemented.
Pro-Palestine demonstrations take place in Istanbul
Thousands of pro-Palestinian protesters have marched through the streets of Istanbul after Haniyeh’s killing. Turkey condemned the assassination, saying the attack aimed to spread the Israeli war in Gaza on a regional level.
“It has been revealed once again that the government of Netanyahu has no intention of achieving peace,” Turkey’s foreign ministry said in a statement.
Although the strike on Haniyeh was widely assumed to have been carried out by Israel, Israel made no claim of responsibility and said it would make no comment on the killing.
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators in Istanbul, Turkey, protest the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Iran, July
Tunisians protest assassination of Haniyeh
Hundreds of people gathered in Tunis to protest Haniyeh’s assassination. The demonstrators, carrying Palestinian flags and chanting slogans, expressed their outrage at what they viewed as a targeted attack by Israel in Tehran.
The assassination took place less than 24 hours after Israel said it killed Hezbollah’s most senior military commander in the Lebanese capital Beirut.
Demonstrators carry pictures of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was killed in Iran, during a protest in Tunis, Tunisia July 31
March in support of Palestine in Tunisian city of Sfax
Tunisian activists on Wednesday also turned up in large numbers for a march in support of Gaza in the streets of the southeastern city of Sfax. The participants waved the Palestinian flag and the flags of the resistance factions and chanted slogans in support of the Palestinian cause.
