TUNIS (Dispatches) – Crowds of protesters gathered in several cities across the Arab world on Monday to demand an end to the Zionist regime’s destructive onslaught on the Gaza Strip.
Hundreds of students protested on Avenue Habib Bourguiba in the Tunisian capital, waving Palestinian and Hamas flags, according to an Anadolu reporter.
Protesters also gathered outside the Municipal Theatre in Tunis before marching to the nearby French Embassy.
Trade unions in Morocco also announced a general strike across the North African country, including in several educational institutions, to draw attention to calls for ending the Israeli war on Gaza.
In Syria, hundreds of people participated in a rally in the capital Damascus to protest the Zionist regime’s attacks on Syria and on the Palestinian people, according to the state news agency SANA.
Palestinian factions have called on supporters around the world to stage a general strike on Monday to pile pressure on Israel to halt its genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.
A day earlier, tens of thousands of Moroccans protested the Zionist regime’s latest onslaught in Gaza, putting fury toward U.S. President Donald Trump near the center of their grievances.
In the largest protest Morocco has seen in months, demonstrators denounced the occupying regime, the United States and their own government. Some stepped on the Zionist regime’s flags, held banners showing martyred Hamas leaders and waved posters juxtaposing Trump alongside displaced Palestinians fleeing their homes.
Organizers condemned the Zionist regime’s ongoing military operation in Gaza. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed since the regime renewed air and ground strikes last month, aimed at pressuring Hamas to release remaining captives.
Such protests have erupted across the Middle East and North Africa, where leaders typically worry about demonstrations undermining domestic stability. Pro-Palestinian rallies were also staged this weekend in the capitals of Tunisia and Yemen as well as in Morocco’s most populous city Casablanca.
On Saturday evening, thousands of Mauritanians gathered outside the U.S. Embassy in Nouakchott in a large-scale sit-in to protest against Israel’s ongoing genocide against Palestinians in Gaza and denounce U.S. complicity in the slaughter.
According to local news website Essirage, the protest was organized by the Student Initiative Against Zionist Infiltration and attracted university students, political figures, doctors, civil society activists and ordinary citizens.
Chanting slogans and waving Palestinian flags, demonstrators accused Washington of enabling the Israeli occupation’s crimes through financial, military and political backing. Many called on the Mauritanian authorities to expel the US ambassador and sever diplomatic ties with Washington. The organizers said that the protest would continue through to the following morning.
The Israeli army renewed a deadly assault on Gaza on March 18 and has since killed nearly 1,400 people, injured over 3,400 others, and shattered a January ceasefire and prisoner exchange agreement in the enclave.
Last week, Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed to escalate attacks on Gaza as efforts are underway to implement U.S. President Donald Trump’s plan to displace Palestinians from the enclave.
More than 50,700 Palestinians have been killed in Gaza in a brutal Israeli onslaught since October 2023, most of them women and children.