Groups supporting Israelis and Palestinians held competing rallies in several U.S. cities on Sunday, a day after a conflict erupted when Hamas militants crossed into Israel.
reported. Supporters of Israel and Palestinians had gathered for rallies in Times Square before marching east to the U.N. compound, according to the television station.“They are under attack,” Tsizer told the newspaper. “They can’t go outside. I don’t have any more tears.”
“In no way can we say what is happening now is unprovoked. Quite the consequence...It’s a direct response to occupation and apartheid,” Masri told the television station. “What we’ve had happen for 75 years is Palestinians have been dispossessed, their homes have been broken and destroyed, their lands have been stolen.”“It’s terrifying. It’s upsetting,” Linda Hirsch, a retired social worker from Bethesda, Maryland, whose husband was a Holocaust survivor, told the newspaper.
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