Four thousand people attend a pro-Palestinian demonstration in Madrid, Spain

Madrid. Around four thousand people demonstrated in Madrid in support of Palestine and against the “genocide” that the State of Israel is perpetrating in the Gaza Strip, in a new sign of rejection of the military incursion into the region, which It has already caused more than 30 thousand fatalities, many of them children and defenseless civilians.

According to the government delegation in Madrid, the protest brought together “four thousand people,” who toured the center of the city, from the Plaza de Legazpi to the Atocha Station, where Palestinian flags were displayed and chants of support were heard. to the people massacred by the Israeli army. The march was called by the Assemblies for the Palestinian Resistance, which also commemorated the 76th anniversary of Al Nakba, the Arabic term that means “catastrophe” and which refers to the flight of nearly 700,000 people from their homes to the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and countries in the region after the creation of the State of Israel in 1948.

During the demonstration, the Spanish Executive, chaired by the socialist Pedro Sánchez and the result of a coalition between the PSOE and the left-wing Sumar platform, was demanded to take a step forward and definitively break diplomatic relations with Israel. Vivi Rivas, spokesperson for the Contracorriente association, assured during the speeches at the end of the march that “this Government, which calls itself progressive, demands a lot of recognition of Palestine as a State, but at the same time continues to maintain commercial and diplomatic relations.” with Israel, it continues to be within NATO, which is its main support, and continues to invest billions and billions in weapons.” end of second note