On Saturday, dozens gathered in Sydney’s Hyde Park in a pro-Palestinian rally. People could be heard chanting “Free Palestine,” among other such slogans, and waving Palestinian flags.
Similar rallies have been taking place in major cities worldwide since the start of the clash between Israel and Hamas in Gaza.
The conflict began after the Palestinian militant group Hamas blew through Israel’s highly fortified separation wall on October 7, and attacked an open-air music festival and Israeli border communities.
They killed scores of people and abducted men, women, and children – including the elderly and disabled.
Israel launched airstrikes on the Gaza Strip and sealed it off from food, fuel, and other supplies in retaliation for a bloody incursion, vowing to destroy the militant group.
Hamas openly calls for the destruction of Israel.
More than 9,200 Palestinians have been killed, mostly women and children, the Gaza Health Ministry said on Tuesday.
The figure is without precedent in decades of Israeli-Palestinian violence.
Over 1,400 people have died on the Israeli side, mostly civilians killed during Hamas’ initial attack, also an unprecedented figure.
