The protesters marched on streets in Chicago's Loop for hours Saturday, calling for a ceasefire and an end to Israel's siege on Gaza.
Several thousand protesters rallied and marched in downtown Chicago Saturday to call for an end to Israel’s siege of Gaza. The protest came as Israeli forces entered Gaza and expanded attacks from the ground, air and sea. It was the sixth large pro-Palestinian march downtown since Hamas’s violent Oct. 7 rampage in Israel. March organizers speaking to the sprawling crowd staged on Upper Wacker Drive labeled Israel’s attacks in Gaza as war crimes and called for an immediate ceasefire.
People holding small casket boxes wrapped in Palestinian flags raised them into the air as the crowd stretching across all lanes of traffic on two city blocks began to march. The caskets represented children killed in Gaza by Israeli bombs, Tawfiq Farraj said as he carried one. “It’s not a war,” Farraj, 38, of Brighton Park, said. “We’re being cleansed right now in our homeland.” “We just want justice and peace. That’s all we want. Self-determination,” he continued.
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