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SvennoJ on 03 August 2024
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Placards and pyrotechnics at pro-Palestinian protest in London


Moroccans protest after Hamas leader’s killing

Thousands of Moroccans are protesting in Rabat in support of Palestinians and in condemnation of diplomatic normalisation with Israel, holding portraits of killed Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh.

Waving Palestinian flags, and brandishing pictures of Haniyeh and a cardboard coffin adorned with his image, thousands of people marched to the parliament building with black-and-white keffiyeh scarves – symbols of the Palestinian cause – draped across their shoulders.

“Greetings from Rabat to our Gazan friends and to the Al-Qassam [Brigades]”, the crowd chanted, referring to the armed wing of Hamas.

“The people want the end of normalisation”, they also chanted, a message also carried on their placards.

Some in the crowd burned an Israeli flag.

Since the beginning of the war on Gaza on October 7, several large demonstrations have taken place in Morocco calling for the end of normalisation, while open opposition to diplomatic ties had previously been limited.

Morocco established official ties in Israel in 2020 as part of the US-led Abraham Accords. The North African kingdom has officially called for “the immediate, complete and permanent halt to the Israeli war on Gaza”, but has not publicly discussed undoing normalisation.


Pro-Palestinian protesters gather outside US embassy in Jakarta

Rawalpindi, Pakistan

Yemenis demonstrate in Sanaa in support of Palestinians

Thousands of Yemenis, including supporters of the Houthi group, demonstrated in capital Sanaa again on the “day of rage” of Palestinians following Haniyeh’s assassination.

Many Yemenis had also joined marches on Friday while holding up posters of the assassinated Palestinian leader and Hezbollah’s Fuad Shukr.

Umm al-Fahm, northern Israel

Israelis protest near homes of Netanyahu, Gallant

The Hostages and Missing Families Forum, which represents relatives of captives still held in Gaza, earlier cancelled its weekly rally in Tel Aviv but called for other demonstrations.

Protesters gathered outside the home of Defence Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv, and the residence of Shas party leader Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem.

Separately, in another weekly protest, hundreds of antigovernment protesters gathered outside Netanyahu’s residence in Caesarea.