'Silence is violence' - Pro-Gaza demonstrators in Rotterdam urge end to Israel genocide
Hundreds of pro-Palestine demonstrators have marched across the streets of Rotterdam to call on the new Dutch government to support efforts for a ceasefire in Gaza.
"I'm not sure if I still feel the hopes with the new government," one protester said. "I think silence is violence and this has been going on for so many years. I think my hope would be for the silence to break up and for more people to speak out."
Footage shows protesters chanting while marching with banners and Palestinian flags. Some can be seen holding up signs reading 'Resistance is the deepest form of love,' Stop ignoring international law' and 'You killed humanity and babies with your silence.'
Protesters denounced what they called Israel's continued 'genocide' and 'ethnic cleansing' against the Palestinian people in both Gaza and the West Bank.
"They don't stop and now they are in the West Bank where there is no Hamas and still they are doing exactly the same things they do in Gaza," a protest organizer said. "They don't want any Palestinian in their area but what they forget is the Palestinians are the landowners, they are the occupiers."
"It's not self-defense, it's ethnic cleansing but still there are a lot of people saying 'Yeah, but Israel has the right for self-defense' - Israel doesn't have the right for existence," she continued.
Israel has repeatedly denied all allegations of genocide and ethnic cleansing in the Palestinian territories. The IOF has also rejected claims that their troops are targeting civilians and using 'the residents of Gaza as a human shield'.
Israel waged a war and launched a 'complete siege' of Gaza, with a large-scale campaign of airstrikes.
A ground incursion began at the end of the third week, with Israeli leaders vowing to 'wipe out' Hamas.
At least 41,252 Palestinians have been killed and more than 95,490 others injured in the war so far.
(Source: AFP)
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