Massive demonstration in Istanbul denounces genocide in Gaza

SANAA, Aug. 26 (YPA) – Thousands of Turkish people participated, on Monday, in a massive demonstration denouncing the genocidal war committed by the Israeli occupation army against the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip.

Participants in the protest carried Palestinian flags and banners that included phrases calling for freedom for Palestine and others denouncing practices of the Israeli occupation.

The demonstrators also raised banners demanding an end to the genocide in Gaza, roaming the streets of the city, starting from the Al-Fateh Mosque, chanting slogans praising the Palestinian resistance and condemning the massacres of the occupation.

A Turkish demonstrator said: “This large gathering of Turkish citizens, in the heart of the city of Istanbul, renews its demands for the necessity of stopping the barbaric Zionist war on the Gaza Strip, and in order to call on the entire world to stop relations with the Zionist enemy and lead it to isolation at the international level.”

Another Egyptian demonstrator pointed out, “Everyone is watching genocide and neonazism in its ugliest form, with American weapons, people are killed openly, day and night, in front of the eyes of the whole world, and no one denounces it, everyone is complicit, and the Arabs are negligent, I came to provide support to our people in Gaza.”

In addition to the Istanbul demonstration, several cities in Turkey witnessed demonstrations for about 325 days, qdenouncing the continuation of the genocidal war in Gaza.