Israeli troops had pulled back under the first phase<\/a> of a U.S.-brokered agreement to end the war, which has killed tens of thousands and left much of the narrow enclave in ruins.<\/p>\n“Even if the ceasefire holds, Israel is still conducting a military occupation of Gaza and the West Bank,” Amal Naser, an organiser of the Sydney rally, said in a statement.<\/p>\n
“The occupation as well as systemic discrimination against Palestinians living in Israel constitute an Apartheid system.”<\/p>\n
Australian Broadcasting Corp footage showed protesters, many carrying Palestinian flags and wearing keffiyeh scarves, marching on closed city streets. Police said no arrests were made.<\/p>\n
The rally was held in the business district after a court last week blocked a move to hold it at the Sydney Opera House.<\/p>\n
Protester Abbi Jordan said she was at the rally because “this so-called ceasefire will not hold”.<\/p>\n
“Israel always breaks every ceasefire they’ve ever done. For 78 years, they’ve been conducting an illegal occupation in Palestinian territories, and we demand the Australian government sanction Israel,” Jordan told Reuters news agency.<\/p>\n
The Executive Council of Australian Jewry, an umbrella group for more than 200 Jewish organisations, condemned the protest organisers. “They want the deal to fail, which would mean the war would continue,” co-Chief Executive Peter Wertheim said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Pro-Palestinian protests have been common in Australia, especially in Sydney and Melbourne, since the war in Gaza was followed by the\u00a0 October 7, 2023 attack- when fighters of the Palestinian group Hamas killed 1,200 Israelis in an attack on.<\/p>\n
Gazan authorities say more than 67,000 people have been killed in Israel’s military response, and much of the enclave has been flattened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Around 27 protests took place across Australia on Sunday, including in Melbourne and Sydney, said the organiser, the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207634,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,63,13042,19959,44,128344],"class_list":["post-207633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gaza-war","tag-gaza-strip","tag-news","tag-pro-palestinian-activism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207633\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}