“The United States supplies the guns, and Israel pulls the trigger,” said organizer Erez Bleicher.
Protesters gather outside of the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv. Activists are reading aloud the names of some of the victims of Israel's assault of Gaza.Protesters gathered outside of the U.S. embassies in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on Friday to demand an end to the U.S. and Israel’s genocide in Gaza, marking six months since Israel began the siege that has killed at least 33,000 Palestinians so far.
“Joe Biden and Benjamin Netanyahu, we are standing in direct sight of the U.S. Embassy because we hold you and your governments directly responsible for the 33,000 Palestinians who have perished in the Gaza Strip and for the starvation policy and engineered famine taking hold even as we speak,” organizer Erez Bleicher said to the crowd in Tel Aviv. “The United States supplies the guns, and Israel pulls the trigger.”, which were attended by small crowds of both American and Israeli citizens.
One activist said they attended the Tel Aviv demonstration because they had a Palestinian friend who was killed by Israeli forces in Gaza., his wife Tasneem and their daughters Elaf and Rital by Israeli pilots dropping American bombs,” said Yossefa Mekyton, 50, a resident of Israel and anti-Zionist Jew. “They were murdered trying to find refuge in the south of the Gaza strip after their house was bombed and destroyed.
“We hold his words in our hearts and will not give up,” Bleicher said. “As Khalil said, ‘When oppression becomes law, rebellion is a must.’”
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