Hundreds of Australians protested in help of Palestine on Sunday, two weeks after the nation introduced it will recognise a Palestinian state.
Greater than 40 protests passed off throughout the nation, in line with Palestine Motion Group, an Australian organisation.
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The group stated round 350,000 folks attended rallies nationwide, though police have estimated decrease numbers in some cities.
Organiser Josh Lees in Sydney stated the protesters had been marching to “demand an end to this genocide in Gaza and to demand that our government sanction Israel”.
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Girls pray throughout the protests on 24 August. Pic: Reuters
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A demonstrator carries a doll throughout the Nationwide March for Palestine protest in Sydney on 24 August. Pic: Reuters
A gaggle representing Australia’s Jewish neighborhood, the Government Council of Australian Jewry, stated the rallies created “an unsafe environment and shouldn’t be happening”.
Within the final week, Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu launched extra private assaults in opposition to Australia’s Anthony Albanese.
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Protests passed off throughout Australia. Pic: Reuters
“I think his record is forever tarnished by the weakness that he showed in the face of [these] Hamas terrorist monsters,” he stated on Wednesday, after earlier describing Mr Albanese as “a weak politician who betrayed Israel and abandoned Australia’s Jews.”
Mr Albanese stated he didn’t “take these things personally” and that he handled the leaders of different nations with respect.
His authorities’s resolution to formally recognise the Palestinian state in September, made on 11 August, got here after tens of hundreds of Australians marched over Sydney’s iconic Harbour Bridge in help of Palestine.
