Protesters call for end to bloodshed at marches in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane a day before anniversary of 7 October Hamas attacks
Feelings of frustration and anger were palpable among the thousands of people who attended pro-Palestine rallies around Australia on Sunday, decrying the rising number of civilian deaths as the war in Gaza approaches 12 months.
“We just want peace, and we want Australia to put pressure on Israel … any small gesture would go a long way to improving the wellbeing of our community and to justice,” she said.While police in New South Wales had sought to block the Sunday rally from taking place, an agreement reached with organisers
Cherish Kuehlmann, a UNSW student with the Students for Palestine group, also began attending the rallies one year ago and said it had grown into “one of the biggest anti-war movements” in Australian history, describing what is occurring in the Middle East as the “moral crime of our generation”.The Australian Palestine Advocacy Network president, Nasser Mashni, told the crowd that Israel should be condemned for its retaliation, which has reverberated across Gaza and the Middle East.
“The anniversary of October 7 needs to be about October 7, and what happened on that day was the loss of more than 1,000 innocent lives.The NSW premier, Chris Minns, said while he supported the right for people to protest in public, the demonstration should not have been organised near the anniversary.
The opposition home affairs spokesperson, James Paterson, said the federal government should have made a bigger effort to persuade community leaders not to have the protest.“ should have gone direct to community leaders and used the relationships and the status of the office of prime minister that he holds to say ‘this is unacceptable and it must not proceed’,” he told Sky News.
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