Thousands of people – 10,000, according to the government Delegation – have expressed this Saturday in Madrid to denounce “the genocide in Palestine” and the arms trade with Israel.
The protest has been convened by the Solidarity network against the occupation of Palestine (Rescop) under the motto “Move by Palestine” and coincides with the 77th anniversary of the Peace (Catastrophe, in Arabic), which every May 15 evokes the Palestinian Exodus as a result of the birth of the state of Israel in 1948 and also with the intensification of the Israeli offensive in Gaza and the West Bank.
Saida Ghodaieh Curiel, president of the Palestinian Hispanic Association Jerusalem, has denounced that since then “all we have lived are displacements, murders, ethnic cleaning, apartheid and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian peopleeven more today with a genocide that is being televised and unpunished with the complicity of Western countries. “
The march has run from Atocha to the Puerta de Sol, where the act is over with the reading of a manifesto and some poems by the actors Alberto San Juan and Elisabet Gelabert.
-“Bicot to Israel”, “This flag (in allusion to that of Palestine) is the true one”, “It is not a war, it is a genocide“Or” you Zionists are terrorists “have been some of the slightest slogans by the attendees.
IU and Podemos add to the march
“After 19 months of a unprecedented brutality in genocide That Israel has been committing on Palestine for decades, we have decided to make this demonstration, since our demands are not reaching the Spanish government with sufficient clarity and we have come here from the different territories of the state to join forces, because only the union gives us strength, “said Lidón Soriano, one of the Rescop spokespersons.
Before the start of the demonstration, Antonio Maíllo, IU General Coordinatorhas subtracted importance to its presence in the demonstration, together with other colleagues such as Enrique Santiago, despite the fact that his party is part of Sumar, a partner of the coalition government, and the protest was also directed against the Executive for continuing to trade with Israel. “There are thousands of militants who are the pride of our organization, who have been working for decades of years in favor of the Palestinian population. And that is the legitimacy that puts us to present ourselves with this position, which is a position that no one questions in our organization,” said.
For its part, the Leader of Podemos, Ione Belarrahe has called the Israeli president, Benjamín Netanyahu, “Hitler of our time”, while regretting the “lesson of terrifying history” that he is giving Zionism, “making the people of Palestine the same as the Nazis made to the Jews”, and has accused the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, of lying in Congress in saying that Spain does not trade with Israel.
