Activists belonging to different organisations staged a demonstration outside the office of Deputy Commissioner in Kalaburagi on Thursday condemning Israel’s attack on Palestine.
Organised under the Citizen’s Forum for Peace and Justice banner, the activists had planned a protest rally from Nagareshwar School in the Gunj area to the Jagat Circle. However, they had to confine their agitation to the Deputy Commissioner’s office as permission for the rally was denied by the district administration.
“The Israeli attack on Palestinian territory has left around 18,600 Palestinians killed and 19 lakh more displaced. The Israel armed forces, supported by America, have not spared even children and media representatives. Most of the hospitals and schools in the Gaza Strip have been forced to close. It is U.S.-sponsored terrorism on Palestinians in Gaza,” M.B. Sajjan, city secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), said during the agitation.
Sharanabasappa Mamshetty, district president of Karnataka Prantha Raitha Sangha, said Israel unleashed an inhuman attack on innocent Palestinians in the name of curbing Hamas, the Islamic Resistance Movement in Palestine.
“It is an all-out war against the people in Palestine. In the name of suppressing Hamas, Israeli forces are killing unarmed and innocent people. The United States and Israel appeared to determined of ethnic cleansing. The United States, which claims to be the champion of human rights protection in the world, is violating human rights by supplying arms and ammunition to Israel for killing Palestinians,” he said.
The leaders of different organisations also criticised the Indian government for its anti-Palestine stance in the United Nations. They demanded it to pressurise Israel to stop the unjust war.
