The people want the liberation of Palestine and “Gaza is free, Palestine is Arab”, chanted the protesters
Hundreds of Tunisians gathered on Saturday in front of the municipal theater in Tunis to denounce Israeli aggression against Gaza.
The demonstration was organized by the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights, bringing together several components of civil society and figures from the Tunisian political scene.
The demonstrators took part in the march, which had as its starting point the Passage garden, towards the municipal theater of Tunis, where they brandished Palestinian and Tunisian flags and chanted slogans of support for the Resistance and the cause Palestinian.
Angry, they denounced the injustice that the Palestinian people have experienced for more than 75 years.
“The people want the liberation of Palestine and ‘Gaza is free, Palestine is Arab,'” the protesters chanted.
”Today we reaffirm and recall that all human rights are indivisible and interdependent. We strongly condemn the violation of Palestinian rights and the crimes committed in Gaza. We also denounce the double standards of Westerners,” launched the president of the Tunisian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LTDH), Bassem Trifi at the Anadolu microphone.
He added, ”What is taking place in Gaza is a real war crime, even a genocide, where the population is forced to move. In addition to these atrocities, the people are oppressed and the activities of civil society are hampered.
For his part, the president of the Association of Tunisian Magistrates, Anas Hmeidi, stressed that the war in Gaza revealed to the whole world the true face of many Western countries, which gave their full support to Israel, regretting in this sense the unconditional support of Washington, which vetoed the UN Security Council to thwart a draft resolution calling for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza for humanitarian reasons.
Let us recall that many Tunisian cities, including the capital Tunis, are occasionally the scene of vigils and demonstrations in support of the Palestinian people, organized by political parties, institutions, and civil society organizations to denounce the continuation of Israeli raids on the Gaza Strip.
For more than two months, Israel has continued to shell Gaza, cutting off the strip’s supplies of water, electricity, food, and medicine, triggering regional and international warnings of a double humanitarian catastrophe alongside the raids. intensive Israeli raids and arrests in cities and towns in the occupied West Bank.
