Hundreds of people gathered on Saturday in Stockholm to protest Israeli plans to annex the occupied West Bank and its failure to comply with the ceasefire agreement, Anadolu reports.
Protesters reacted to Israel’s actions, chanting slogans such as Free Palestine, Murderer Israel, get out of Palestine, and No to the annexation of the West Bank.
Following calls from numerous civil society organizations, the crowd gathered at Odenplan Square and marched to the Swedish Parliament, carrying banners reading Israel is not complying with the ceasefire, Stop the genocide, and Palestine forever.
During the demonstration, protesters called for peace and denounced the Israeli government’s policies.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that while famine in the Gaza Strip has been averted, the humanitarian situation remains extremely fragile, with more than 75% of the population facing acute food insecurity and critical risks of malnutrition.
Famine has been pushed back. Far more people are able to access the food they need to survive, Guterres told a news conference at the UN headquarters in New York. Gains are fragile, perilously so.
He said 1.6 million people in Gaza, more than 75% of the population, are projected to face extreme levels of acute food insecurity and critical malnutrition risks.
And in more than half of Gaza, where Israeli troops remain deployed, farmland and entire neighborhoods are out of reach. Strikes and hostilities continue, pushing the civilian toll of this war even higher and exposing our teams to grave danger.
Babies in Tents are Freezing to Death
Speaking to Anadolu, Swedish activist Malin Akerstrom said the humanitarian tragedy in Gaza has turned into a disaster due to winter conditions and called on the international community to take action.
Akerstrom stressed that the situation in the region is deteriorating on each passing day and that the process amounts to a genocide.
The world is being deceived into believing there is a ceasefire, even as Gaza continues to be bombed and babies are freezing to death, Akerstrom added.
Wiping Gaza off the Map and confiscating Palestine’s Maritime Natural Gas Reserves
Over 100 Swedish lawmakers call for action on West Bank
More than 100 members of the Swedish parliament have called for action to prevent violence against the Palestinian people in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. The lawmakers conveyed their demands in a letter sent to Swedish FM Maria Malmer Stenergard.
In a statement made on behalf of the lawmakers, it was noted that, in the shadow of the current situation in Gaza, violence carried out by illegal Israeli settlers in the West Bank has increased significantly in recent years.
They called on the Swedish government to take action to stop these acts of violence, which are contrary to international law.
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If Hamas seeks to rearm, Israel has every right to stop it. Go Israel!
Yeah, go home Israel, to where your grandma used to speak to you in Yiddish while she was chopping chicken livers for your lunch. That was nowhere in the Middle East, was it?
Earlier Saturday, the Israeli military launched a series of heavy airstrikes and conducted demolitions in several areas under its control across the Gaza Strip, marking new violations of the ceasefire agreement that entered its first phase on Oct. 10.