Several thousand people gathered in central Sarajevo on Sunday, waving Palestinian and Bosnian flags, demanding a halt to the Israeli offensive on the Gaza Strip.
The agency reported this, as European Pravda writes. Reuters.
Some of those present chanted: “Genocide, genocide,” and a large banner read “Yesterday Srebrenica, today Gaza.”
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— Sarajevo (@CapitalSarajevo) October 22, 2023
Chanting “Free, free Palestine” and “Israel is a terrorist,” they strongly condemned the killing of civilians in the Gaza Strip.
Thousands took the streets in 🇧🇦 capital Sarajevo on Sunday to show for the second time solidarity with Palestinian people.
Chanting “Free, Free, Palestine” and “Israel Terrorist”, they strongly condemned the killings of civilians in Gaza Strip.
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— Balkan Insight (@BalkanInsight) October 22, 2023
Sarajevo Mayor Benjamina Karic told protesters that the city knows “what it’s like to live without water and food and see children being killed,” referring to the 1992-95 siege during which Serb forces killed an estimated 11,000 city residents, in including 1,600 children.
Bosnia is still recovering from the 1992-95 war that split the country between two entities – the Serbian Orthodox Christian majority Republika Srpska and the Muslim-majority Bosnian-Croat Federation.
Smaller pro-Palestinian protests in the region took place in Belgrade and the Montenegrin capital Podgorica on Sunday.
Saturday around 100 thousand people went to a pro-Palestinian rally in London.
And in Dublin last week, pro-Palestinian demonstrators briefly “occupied” the office of the European Commission.
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2023-10-23 04:59:07
