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Starting at noon yesterday (Sunday, August 24), a large march broke out again across Australia.
The theme of this march is still to support Palestine and to accuse Israel of atrocities in Gaza, but it is much larger than before.
Whether it is a big city like Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, or a remote town with only a few thousand or tens of thousands of people in the interior, this parade is unprecedented and has been held in dozens of cities across Australia.
ProtestersIt occupied part of the city center and caused traffic paralysis.
And, let’s not forget that there will be a large anti-immigration march across Australia next Sunday (August 31).
Every Sunday, ordinary people sigh that this day cannot be passed…
A big parade broke out again across Australia
Yesterday, a large number of protesters launched marches in many Australian cities, which was one of the largest rally to support Palestine so far.
It is reported that cities where the rally broke out include Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Adelaide, Armidale, Cairns, Darwin, Coffs Harbour, Geelong, Hobart, Newcastle, Perth and many remote towns in Australia.
The protests in Melbourne began at the State Library at 12:00 noon, with about 10,000 participants:
The event began with a speech, followed by a parade through Melbourne’s CBD to the Parliament Building.
The protests in Sydney started at 1pm at the Hyde Park fountain in downtown Sydney, with more than 10,000 participants.
This time, perhaps because there were just a parade held not long ago, there were not so many people in Sydney, but there were particularly many people participating in the parade in Brisbane.
Aerial footage shows that the local Victoria Bridge is crowded with people, and there is a scattered person behind it:
The Brisbane parade route is similar to the previous parades in Sydney, both passing through the famous local bridge. The parade starts at Queens Park, crosses the bridge and finally reaches Musgrave Park in southern Brisbane.
Organizers estimated that there were about 50,000 people on site.
The scale of the parade is held all over Australia, regardless of its size. In Tathra, a small town in southern New South Wales, with a population of less than 2,000, about 500 people participated in the parade.
It is reported that many people drove from the countryside to participate in the parade.
About 2,000 people gathered in Canberra:
About 4,000 pro-Pakistan protesters flocked to the streets of Hobart in Tasmania.The parade followed the CBD through Franklin Square, occupying several blocks.
Hundreds of people gathered in Perth:
In this unprecedented, spanning across Australia, protesters called for an end to the bloody conflict in the Gaza Strip and called on Australia to impose sanctions on Israel.
At the same time, an important demand from the protesters is to demand that Australia stop arms sales to Israel.
Australia is reportedly still maintaining 35 military export permits to Israel.
The Australian government insists that Australia has not provided weapons and ammunition to Israel “at least in the past five years.”
Most export licenses are included in the list of military supplies: items specially designed or modified for military purposes. Some other items may be dual-purpose items for military and civilians.
Critics say that part of the weapons is also weapons, and Australia should immediately follow Germany and stop exporting these items to Israel.
Previously, Germany had announced a suspension of exports of any weapons that could be used in Gaza to Israel. About 30% of Israel’s weapons are imported from Germany.
Israeli Prime Minister calls Abenian “weak”
Australia’s fierce attack
Recently, Australia’s “anti-Israel wave” has become increasingly fierce, and at the national level, the two governments have also had many confrontations.
Just a few days after the last Sydney parade, Australian Prime Minister Abnen said,Australia will formally recognize the Palestinian State at the United Nations General Assembly in September.
Abnian said that Australia “supports the two-state solution” and that it is the most promising way to achieve peace.
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu later called Abenian a “weak politician” and accused him of “betraying Israel and abandoning Australian Jews.”
Abnian was not concerned about this when asked about it, while Australian Interior Minister Tony Burke fired back fiercely.
He said Netanyahu’s remarks indicated that he was “a leader who vented his emotions due to frustration.”
“The power doesn’t lie in how many people you can blow up with a bomb, or how many children you can starve.”Tony Burke said.
“We see that some of the actions they (Israel) have taken are continuing to isolate Israel by the world and that is not good for them themselves.”
There is no doubt that at the diplomatic level, relations between Australia and Israel have dropped to freezing point, and so is Australian official attitude.
But the continuous parades have indeed made ordinary people sigh: When is it the end…
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