DHAKA (Dispatches) – More than 1 million Bangladeshis assembled on the streets of Dhaka on Saturday to join the country’s largest Gaza solidarity rally and take a public oath to boycott products and entities linked to the Zionist regime.
Waving the flags of Bangladesh and Palestine and chanting “Free Palestine,” “Stop the Israeli aggression,” and “Boycott Israeli products,” residents of the country’s capital flocked to the Suhrawardy Udyan — the main public space — for the “March for Gaza” demonstration.
Organized by the Palestine Solidarity Movement Bangladesh, the event featured politicians, celebrities, artists, poets and popular social media influencers, who joined in a call on world leaders to bring to justice Zionist prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others responsible for the regime’s mass killing of Palestinian civilians.
Political leaders present at the event called for international accountability and immediate action to end the regime’s deadly onslaught on Gaza, where over 50,900 people have been killed, 116,000 wounded, and 2 million others face starvation after Zionist troops destroyed most of the region’s infrastructure and buildings, while blocking humanitarian aid from entering.
A joint declaration read during the rally called on the international community to “take effective and collective action to end the genocide,” and especially on Muslim countries to immediately sever all economic, military, and diplomatic relations with Israel and to “impose commercial blockades and sanctions on the Zionist regime” and begin active diplomatic efforts to isolate it on the international stage.
“We will boycott every product, company, and force that sustains Israel’s occupation ... We will start from our own homes, leaving an imprint of this pledge in language, history, education, economy, and society,” said the declaration read by Mahmudur Rahman, editor of the Amar Desh daily newspaper, who helped organize the event.
It was the largest Palestine solidarity rally in Bangladesh in recent history.

Tunisians Demand Law
 Criminalizing Normalization

Hundreds of activists participated in a march held in the capital, Tunis, on Friday, demanding the enactment of a law criminalizing normalization with the Zionist regime, which has been waging an ongoing war of genocide in the Gaza Strip for 18 months.
The Coordination for Joint Action for Palestine called for the march, which began at Bab El-Khadra Square and headed toward the Parliament building.
A banner reading, “The people want to criminalize normalization with the Zionist entity and stop military and security cooperation with America” was at the front of the march, according to an Anadolu Agency correspondent.
Hundreds of activists also raised flags of Palestinian and Lebanese resistance factions and held signs reading “Criminalize normalization,” “Palestine is not for sale… Where is the criminalization of normalization?” and “The people want to criminalize normalization.”
The Coordination for Joint Action for Palestine announced the primary demand of the march was, “The enactment of a law criminalizing normalization with the Zionist enemy, the dismissal of the U.S. ambassador, and stopping military and security cooperation with the U.S., which is involved in the aggression against our people in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen and Syria.”
The march comes as the Zionist regime intensifies its genocidal war against the Gaza Strip, with U.S. support, since October 2023.
In November 2023, the Tunisian Parliament failed to ratify a law criminalizing normalization with the Zionist regime after Speaker of the Assembly of the Representatives of the People Ibrahim Bouderbala announced the postponement of the vote, which has yet to be held.
In turn, Tunisian President Kais Saied commented on the controversy surrounding the decision to postpone the vote, asserting: “Tunisia’s position on normalization is unwavering in its rejection. The term ‘normalization’ has no place in my dictionary.”
Meanwhile, Libyan protesters took to the streets on Friday in Misrata to demonstrate in solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.
The protesters waved Palestinian flags and held banners featuring Quranic verses. Protesters described the situation in Gaza as a severe humanitarian crisis, marked by starvation, casualties, and displacement. They stressed that such actions are a violation of human, legal, and ethical principles.