2023-10-14 19:06:04
AA / Stockholm / Hakan Turkmen
A pro-Palestine demonstration was organized this Saturday in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. Protesters rejected the participation of neo-Nazi extremists in their ranks.
Hundreds of people gathered at Sergels Torg Square in Stockholm to protest Israeli attacks on Gaza.
People of different nationalities and ages took part in the protest, including Swedes, Palestinians and Arabs.
Protesters chanted slogans such as “Free Palestine”, “Free Jerusalem” and “Freedom for Gaza”, waving Palestinian flags, demanding an end to the bombing of Gaza and attacks on civilians.
A group of far-right neo-Nazis from the Scandinavian Resistance Movement/NRM also arrived at the scene, tearing down the Israeli flag.
Nonetheless, pro-Palestine protesters chanted slogans such as “We don’t want racists in our streets” and demanded the extremists leave.
After police intervention, the far-right group was expelled from the area.
For the eighth consecutive day, the Gaza Strip, besieged since 2006, is still prey to intense Israeli airstrikes which have destroyed entire neighborhoods.
At dawn on Saturday, the Hamas resistance movement and other Palestinian factions launched Operation “Al-Aqsa Flood” from Gaza, in response to “relentless attacks by Israeli forces and settlers once morest the Palestinian people, its properties and its holy sites, in particular the Al-Aqsa Mosque in the occupied part of East Jerusalem.”
For its part, the Israeli army launched Operation “Iron Swords” and continues to carry out intensive raids on many areas of the Gaza Strip, where more than two million Palestinians live who are suffering from the deterioration of their living conditions due to an Israeli blockade imposed since 2006.
*Translated from Arabic by Wejden Jlassi
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