MANHATTAN (Dispatches) – Pro-Palestinian activists have held rallies in the U.S. and UK in protest against the Zionist regime’s latest attack against the Palestinian worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the occupied East Al-Quds.
The crowd gathered in the heart of Manhattan, New York, in Times Square, the commercial and tourism center of New York City, on Saturday, waving Palestinian flags and chanting slogans such as “Free Palestine” to condemn the violent raid and demand an end to Zionist attacks.
The protesters criticized the silence of international bodies against the obvious crimes of the Zionist regime and demanded an end to the apartheid regime’s attacks on Palestinians
They also called for global support for the oppressed people of Palestine.
The protesters carried placards reading “Defend Masjid Al-Aqsa” and “Hands off Al-Aqsa,” and chanted slogans such as “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” “Resistance is justified when people are colonized,” and “There is only one solution; Intifada (uprising) revolution.”
Moreover, for the second straight day in London, people rallied outside the Zionist regime’s embassy in London after footage of Zionist troops attacking Muslim worshipers at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound went viral on social media.
“Last night Israel also bombarded the besieged Gaza Strip, damaging Durra Children’s Hospital and injuring a 12-year-old child,” said the UK-based Friends of Al-Aqsa on Sunday, a non-profit NGO concerned with defending the human rights of Palestinians.
“On Wednesday Israeli Occupation Forces beat worshippers with batons and rifles at the holiest site in Al-Quds for Muslims,” FOA said in a statement. “Yesterday Israeli forces attacked Palestinian men, women and children with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber-coated bullets.”
Heavily armed Zionist forces stormed the al-Aqsa Mosque compound on Tuesday night before firing tear gas and stun grenades into the Qibli prayer hall, where hundreds of men, women, elderly people, and children were staying overnight to pray. Some eyewitnesses said rubber-coated steel bullets were also fired.
Zionist troops have wounded and rounded up hundreds of Palestinians during the attacks that have seen a rise since the beginning of the fasting month of Ramadan. Illegal Zionist settlers have, meanwhile, been freely violating the compound under the Israeli military and police force’s protection.
Palestinian resistance movements in the nearby Gaza Strip have been warning the regime that it would have to bear the consequences of the flare-up that it has brought about in Al-Quds and beyond.