Thousands of people from different parts of the country (10,000, according to the government Delegation) have demonstrated this Saturday in Madrid to denounce “the genocide in Palestine” and the arms trade with Israelan act to which they have joined Representatives of Podemos and the United Leftin addition to other organizations and groups.
The protest, convened by the solidarity network against the occupation of Palestine (Rescop) under the motto “Move by Palestine“, coincides with the 77th anniversary of the NABKA (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 are Displacements, murders, ethnic cleaningApartheid and crimes against humanity against the Palestinian people, even more today with a genocide that is being televised and unpunished with the complicity of Western countries. “
After 15 weekends of decentralized protests in more than 100 municipalities other than the national territory, this Saturday the mobilization has centralized Madrid for denounce the responsibility of the government Spanish, of the European Union, of the regional and national governments, of the municipalities and of the companies that profit from the “genocide” in Gaza.
Numerous Palestine and propiegeless The streets have flooded the streets of Madrid From Atocha to the sun gatewhere the act is over with the reading of a manifesto and some poems by the actors Alberto San Juan and Elisabet Gelabert.
Boicot to Israel, This flag (in allusion to that of Palestine) It is the real one, It is not a war, it is a genocide o You Zionists are terrorists They have been some of the slightest slogans by the attendees.
“After 19 months of unprecedented brutality in the genocide that Israel has been committing on Palestine for decades, we have decided to make this demonstration, since our demands are not reaching the government Spanish with enough clarity and we have come here from the different territories of the state to join forces, because only union gives us strength, “said Lidón Soriano, one of the rescop spokespersons.
Before the start of the demonstration, Antonio Maíllo, general coordinator of IU, has subtracted importance to his presence in the demonstration, along with other colleagues such as Enrique Santiago, despite the fact that his party is part of Sumar, partner of the coalition government, and the protest also went directed against the Executive for continuing to merchant 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 In introducing us with this position, which is a position that nobody questions in our organization, “he said.
For its part, the leader of Podemos, Ion’s grasshas called the Israeli president, Benjamin Netanyahu“Hitler of our time“, while regretting the” lesson of terrifying history “that 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 by saying that Spain does not trade with weapons with Israel.
When asked about the Another manifestation that it was being held at the same time a few hundred meters away against the Government, it has limited itself to reply: “I don’t know her“.
