Mass anti-Israeli rallies held across Pakistan
Javed Rana
Press TV, Islamabad
Anti-Israeli sermons were delivered in hundreds of thousands of mosques and Islamic schools across Pakistan. Tens of thousands of people came out on the streets alone in Islamabad to voice their support for the Palestinian people.
There were similar rallies in other major urban centers to protest over Israel’s latest round of nearly two weeks long attacks on the Gaza Strip which left scores of Palestinians dead, many of them women and children. Officially Pakistan observed the Friday as a Palestine day to express solidarity with innocent Palestinians.
On the streets, people in Pakistan raged with anger like elsewhere in the Muslim world since Israel attacked and desecrated Islam’s third holiest mosque after forcible eviction of Palestinian residents in East Jerusalem al-Quds and subsequent unilateral war it imposed on Gaza.
People in this protest believe that OIC’s inaction has emboldened Israel’s aggression upon unarmed Palestinians and therefore, they want Pakistan and other willing Muslim countries for joint military action against Israel. This demand was partially echoed in recently held conference of OIC Foreign Ministers in Turkey when some non-Arab states proposed to setup an International Protection Force of willing countries to prevent Israel’s aggression in the future.
Not everywhere in Pakistan the pro Palestinian rallies were safe. At least six people were killed and over a dozen others were injured after a bomb attack hit a rally in Chaman, southwest of Pakistan. Many suspect pro Israel terrorist groups behind the terror attack.
Anti-Israeli sentiments run high in Pakistan given the regime’s policy of systematically killing innocent Palestinians and evicting them from their homes over the course of decades.
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