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Pro-Palestinian protests in Geneva and Bern

Monday, 8 April 2024 06:18

Over 1000 people gathered in Bern on Saturday afternoon calling for an end to hostilities in Gaza. In a separate protest, 200 people gathered in Geneva on Sunday calling the Israeli army’s actions a “massacre of the population of Gaza”.

Some of the protestors also criticized the inaction of Western governments and Swiss neutrality. People at both protests called for Switzerland to act. 

Waving Palestinian flags, one speaker on Sunday in Geneva said “we are talking about a genocide of unprecedented violence” and spoke of the struggles that humanitarian aid is facing to access the region and the people in need. 
 

 

 

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