People in Muslim-majority countries held protests to show their support for Palestinians in Gaza, demanding freedom for Palestine and an urgent end to brutal Israeli air raids.
People in various states such as Iran, Egypt, Malaysia, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Turkey, Syria
Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, and other main cities across the country, demanding the opening of the Rafah crossing to allow aid for Palestinians who have been under Israel’s total siege and bombardment for fourteen days.
Several thousand people gathered in Cairo’s Tahrir Square, despite a heavy deployment of security forces on Friday, calling for Israel to stop its bombardment of the Gaza Strip, against people in the Gaza Strip, one of the most densely populated areas in the world.
Demonstrators were demanding the opening of the Rafah crossing, on the Egypt-Gaza border, to allow aid into Gaza. The crossing is currently the only gateway to Gaza, which has been under siege by the Israeli regime.
Israel bombed the crossing at least five times since it launched its war on Gaza on October 7, on both the Egyptian and the Palestinian sides. The latest attack was on Friday on the Gaza side.
“We want the border to be opened immediately so aid can reach people in Gaza,” said one protester. “God is alive, the voice of the people is still alive, the voice of the resistance is still alive.”
People were also chanting slogans against the government of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, demanding the closure of the Israeli embassy and the expulsion of the regime’s ambassador.
“Resistance is the solution,” people chanted. “The people want the fall of Israel.”
Several countries and aid organizations have been sending cargo planes and trucks to the Rafah border crossing for days but none has been allowed to enter so far. The border crossing was due to open on Friday.
Jordan demonstrations
In Jordan, thousands of people marched in the capital Amman and elsewhere around the country, chanting slogans in support of Palestinians and Hamas.
Some 2,500 people gathered on a highway in Amman, on their way to the borders with Israel and the occupied West Bank.
Police blocked the roads leading to the border to prevent people from heading toward the occupied territory. Protesters were calling on the authorities to allow them to join the fight alongside Hamas.
Several thousand people also gathered near the Israeli embassy In Amman, chanting slogans against the occupying entity.
“No Jewish embassy on Arab land!” protesters chanted,” protesters chanted.
Jordan’s riot police blocked roads leading to the fortified embassy complex to keep back demonstrators who gathered around the nearby Kaloti mosque in the city.
West Bank rally
Hundreds of people also demonstrated against Israel in the occupied West Bank’s Ramallah on Friday.
The rally came one day after Israeli forces raided and carried out an air strike on a Palestinian refugee camp in the territory, killing at least 12 people.
Angry protests were being held across the Muslim world since Israel killed hundreds of Palestinians at a Gaza hospital on Tuesday.
The regime’s forces launched its deadly bombing campaign on Gaza after Hamas waged the Operation Al-Aqsa Storm against the occupying regime.
Well over 4,100 Palestinians have so far been killed across the Strip, according to figures from the health ministry. Nearly 13,500 individuals have also been injured.
The regime has also turned off water supplies to the Gaza Strip more than a week ago. The United Nations has warned that approximately 2 million people in Gaza will soon run out of water because Israel has shut off supplies.
