‘What we’re witnessing in Gaza right now is utterly unbearable’
We’ve been speaking to protesters at the rally in New York City.
Miriam Osman from the Palestinian Youth Movement says that the protesters have “one clear demand, which is, ‘Stop starving Gaza'”. “This is a mass march for humanity. Everybody needs to be out here today, because what we’re witnessing in Gaza right now is utterly unbearable,” she said.
“The people of Gaza need immediate relief, and it can happen today if the US government decides to stop funding and arming Israel,” Osman added.
Journalist Zoe Alexandra said she joined the protest in solidarity with colleagues in Gaza. “We’re coming together as journalists and media workers to say, Israel must end its killing of journalists,” said Alexandra, who is an editor at Peoples Dispatch.
“They are simply on the ground… trying to share the story of their own people’s genocide, and for that, they’re being picked up and targeted by Israel, threatened, accused of all sorts of things, and then murdered in front of their family.”
People held pictures of slain Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif at the protest, a week after he was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza, along with his colleagues
Canadians in Toronto march against Israel’s starvation of Gaza
People march in downtown Toronto to protest the killing of journalists in Palestine by Israeli forces and to call for an end to the starvation in Gaza, on Saturday
Journalists also joined the protest in support of their colleagues in Gaza
