Hundreds of people gathered at the gates of Parliament in the CBD in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine

A demonstration, which drew close to 1 000 people,organised by the Palestine Solidarity Campaign Cape Town (PSC-Cape Town) and supported by several political parties, and religious and solidarity groups- took place on Tuesday.

A large number of the protesters in Cape Town were Muslim who endured the heat, while currently fasting for the month of holy month of Ramadaan, to show their support for Palestine. People across religious and racial lines donned the keffiyeh, symbolic of Palestinian resistance and solidarity. They also waved Palestinian flags during a demonstration at the gates of Parliament in the CBD.

ANC Youth League member Busisiwe Nxumalo said: “We believe that the illegal occupation by the Israeli government in Palestine is wrong, and here in South Africa ourselves we’ve experienced apartheid, so we sympathise with the people of Palestine, and we want the world to step in and do more, because it feels like institutions such as the UN are not doing much about this. They not doing enough to condemn this.”


By Everngelista Muza

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