The action was organised by Palestine Action Group to oppose Israel’s Operation Breaking Dawn.
Around one hundred protesters gathered at Town Hall on Saturday to condemn the Israeli state’s ceasefire on Gaza and pay respects to the Palestinians who were martyred.
The Palestine Action Group organised the emergency rally in response to Israel’s Operation Breaking Dawn, which killed roughly 43 civilians over the past week.
Palestine Action Group activist Damian Ridgewell facilitated the rally andwelcomed the dissenters by providing history of Israel’s “mitigated massacre of Palestinian policy on the Gaza strip”.
“Last weekend, 49 Palestinians were killed in an indiscriminate bombing by the apartheid state of Israel, out which 17 were children. After the ceasefire in Gaza, Israel again attacked Nazareth, killing three people and injuring hundreds of resistance fighters,” he said.
Operation Breaking Dawn is a successor of the 2019 Israeli campaign Operation Black Belt against Islamic Jihad movement in Palestine. According to the Israeli Defence Force, the build-up to the ceasefire and assassination of Palestine Islamic Jihad leader Tayseer Jabbari was to “thwart planned attacks against Israelis”.
Australian Palestine Advocacy Network’s Rand Khatib addressed the rally to shed light on the inequality of the conflict.
“The battle is between the Israeli judicial systems and the mothers who are pleading for their sons to be released from political prisons,” she said.
Read the article by Misbah Ansari in Honi Soit.