Tens of Thousands Protest in The Hague Against Gaza War
AMSTERDAM (Dispatches) – Tens of thousands of protesters marched through The Hague on Sunday demanding a tougher stance from the Dutch government against the Zionist regime’s war in Gaza.
Organizer Oxfam Novib said around 100,000 protesters had joined the march, most dressed in red expressing their desire for a “red line” against the occupying regime’s siege on Gaza, where it has cut off medical, food and fuel supplies.
The march also passed the seat of the International Court of Justice, which is hearing a case brought by South Africa accusing the Zionist regime of genocide and last year ordered the regime’s to halt a military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah.
Oxfam Novib said the Dutch government had ignored war crimes committed by the regime in Gaza, and urged protesters to demand a tougher line.
Dutch Foreign Affairs minister Caspar Veldkamp earlier this month said he wanted the EU to reconsider cooperation agreements it has with the Zionist regime.
But the Dutch government has so far refrained from harsher criticism, and the leader of the largest party in the government coalition, anti-Muslim populist Geert Wilders, has repeatedly voiced unwavering support for the occupying regime.
Worldwide Pro-Palestinian
Protests
A day earlier, tens of thousands of people rallied across the world in solidarity with Palestinians amid the Zionist regime’s brutal war on Gaza and to mark the 1948 ethnic cleansing of Palestinians by Zionist militias, remembered as the Nakba, or catastrophe.
The Nakba resulted in the permanent mass displacement of Palestinians after the occupation of Palestinian lands in 1948. Activists say that history is repeating itself today in Gaza and the occupied West Bank.
In Stockholm, thousands assembled at Odenplan Square, responding to calls from various civil society organizations to protest against Zionist attacks on Gaza. Participants waved Palestinian flags, displayed photographs of children killed, and carried banners stating: “Stop the Zionist regime’s genocide in Palestine”.
Meanwhile, in London, United Kingdom, hundreds of thousands marched towards Downing Street, demanding an end to what they described as Israel’s genocide in Gaza, 77 years on from the Nakba. Protesters, some dressed in keffiyehs and waving Palestinian flags, chanted slogans such as “Stop the genocide in Gaza”, “Free Palestine”, and “Israel is a terror state”.
In Berlin, Germany, people gathered at Potsdamer Platz to protest against Israeli attacks on Gaza. Demonstrators waved Palestinian flags and held signs reading: “Your silence is complicity” and “You cannot kill us all”. Women in traditional dress carrying Nakba-themed visuals were also present.
The event took place amid heavy security measures, with at least three people reportedly detained.
A solidarity march was held in Athens, Greece, where protesters, adorned in keffiyehs and carrying Palestinian flags, marched first to the embassies of the United States and the Zionist regime.
Protests have erupted after hundreds of Palestinians have been killed in the past few days as Israel intensified its attacks, with the announcement of a new ground aggression.