More than Tens of thousands of people from over 100 cities all over the world have participated in protests in solidarity with Palestinians.
According to al Jazeera news network; more than Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in cities around the world, demanding an end to deadly Israeli air raids on the Gaza Strip.
The Israeli bombings on Gaza come after weeks of mounting tensions over the looming forced expulsion of Palestinian families from Sheikh Jarrah, a Palestinian neighborhood in occupied East Jerusalem that Jewish settlers have been trying to expel them from for decades.
The situation escalated when Israeli police stormed the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City – the third-holiest site in Islam – and wounded hundreds of Palestinian worshippers during several days of violence. Protests broke out across the occupied territories and inside Israel. The Palestinian faction, Hamas, which governs Gaza, launched rockets towards Israel, after it missed a deadline to remove its forces from the mosque compound.
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The map and list below show the locations where sizeable protests have occurred. More protests are planned throughout the week in several cities worldwide.
Nigeria21.com will update this list as more information becomes available (Updated May 18, 2021).
Cities where protests have taken place:
United States:
New York; Brooklyn; Washington; Raleigh; Chicago; Los Angeles; Manhattan; Jacksonville; Michigan; Milwaukee; San Jose.
New Zealand
Auckland; Christchurch; Dunedin; Nelson; Wellington; (New Zealand) Whanganui.
England
Birmingham; Bradford; Brighton; Bristol; London; Manchester; Newcastle; Norwich; Oxford.
Canada
Calgary; Edmonton; Hamilton; Montreal; Ottawa; Toronto; Vancouver; St. John’s; Saskatoon.
Morocco
Ben Slimane; Casablanca; Marrakech; Rabat.
Australia
Melbourne; Sydney; Nelson Bay.
Pakistan
Karachi; Peshawar; Quetta.
Ireland
Cork; Dublin; Galway.
Iraq
Baghdad; Basrah; Diwaniyah.
South Africa
Johannesburg; Cape Town; Sandton.
Lebanon
Beirut; Nabatieh.
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia; Pittsburgh.
Germany
Hamburg; Stuttgart.
Belgium
Brussels; Waterloo.
Libya
Trablus; Tripoli.
Turkey
Ankara; Istanbul.
Scotland
Edinburgh; Glasgow.
Netherlands
Eindhoven; Hague.
Italy
Milan; Rome.
India
Kashmir; Srinagar.
Tunisia
Mahdia; Tunis.
Greece
Athens
Norway
Bergen
Algeria
Algiers
Denmark
Copenhagen
jorden
Aqaba
Massachusetts
Boston
Syria
Daraa
Michigan
Dearborn
Bangladesh
Dhaka
Qatar
Doha
Kentucky
Frankfort
Nova Scotia
Halifax
Indonesia
Jakarta
Jordan
Irbid
Uganda
Kampala
Spain
Madrid
Somalia
Mogadishu
Kenya
Nairobi
Cyprus
Nicosia
France
Paris
Kosovo
Pristina
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Brazil
Sao Paulo
Yemen
Sanaa
Iran
Tehran
Japan
Tokyo
Austria
Vienna
Poland
Warsaw
Palmerston
Oman
