{"id":40970,"date":"2025-08-03T18:55:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40970\/"},"modified":"2025-08-03T18:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T18:55:06","slug":"tens-of-thousands-protest-israels-war-on-gaza-in-australias-sydney-israel-palestine-conflict-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/40970\/","title":{"rendered":"Tens of thousands protest Israel\u2019s war on Gaza in Australia\u2019s Sydney | Israel-Palestine conflict News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australia may join more than a dozen other nations in recognising the state of Palestine.<\/p>\n

Tens of thousands of demonstrators have marched across the Sydney Harbour Bridge in Australia, calling for peace and aid deliveries in the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, where a humanitarian crisis of man-made starvation has been worsening as a result of Israel\u2019s punishing blockade.<\/p>\n

Pro-Palestinian protesters braved heavy winds and rain on Sunday to march across the bridge, chanting \u201cCeasefire Now\u201d and \u201cFree Palestine\u201d. Some of those attending the march, which the organisers dubbed the \u201cMarch for Humanity\u201d, carried pots and pans as symbols of the forced starvation wracking Gaza.<\/p>\n

\"peopleDemonstrators including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange (third from left, wearing red tie) cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally against Israel\u2019s actions and the ongoing food shortages in the Gaza Strip in Sydney, Australia on August 3, 2025 [David Gray\/AFP]<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n

The protest came less than a week after a joint statement by Australia and more than a dozen other nations expressed the \u201cwillingness or the positive consideration \u2026 to recognise the state of Palestine as an essential step towards the two-State solution\u201d.<\/p>\n

France<\/a>, Britain<\/a> and Canada<\/a> have in recent weeks voiced, and in some cases qualified, intentions to diplomatically recognise a Palestinian state as international concern and criticism have grown over the hunger crisis in Gaza.<\/p>\n

At least 175 people, including 93 children, have died of starvation<\/a> and malnutrition across the territory since Israel launched its war on Gaza after the Hamas-led attacks on southern Israel in October 2023, according to the latest Gaza Health Ministry figures.<\/p>\n

Australia has called for an end to the war in Gaza, but has so far stopped short of a decision to recognise a Palestinian state.<\/p>\n

Police said that up to 90,000 people had attended the protest while the organiser, Palestine Action Group Sydney, said in a Facebook post that as many as 300,000 people may have marched.<\/p>\n

Marchers ranged from the elderly to families with young children. Among them was WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who did not address the crowd or speak to the media.<\/p>\n

\"peopleDemonstrators cross the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally against Israel\u2019s actions and the ongoing food shortages in the Gaza Strip in Sydney, Australia on August 3, 2025 [David Gray\/AFP]<\/p>\n

Mehreen Faruqi, the New South Wales senator for the left-wing Greens party, addressed the crowd gathered at central Sydney\u2019s Lang Park, calling for the \u201charshest sanctions on Israel\u201d, accusing its forces of \u201cmassacring\u201d Palestinians.<\/p>\n

Antony Loewenstein, author of The Palestine Laboratory, a book on the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, who spoke at the rally, told Al Jazeera that protesters are \u201coutraged\u201d not just by what Israel is doing in Gaza, but also by the Australian government\u2019s \u201ccomplicity\u201d.<\/p>\n

Loewenstein said that Australia has, for many years, including since the start of the war, been part of the global supply chain for the F-35 fighter jets that Israel has been using in attacking the besieged territory.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of Australians are aware of this,\u201d he said. \u201cWe are deeply complicit, and people are angry that their government is doing little more than talk at this point.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Australia may join more than a dozen other nations in recognising the state of Palestine. Tens of thousands…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40971,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[77,64,63,6898,36088,9337,36089,36090,44,84,17736],"class_list":["post-40970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-australia","tag-asia-pacific","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gaza","tag-humanitarian-crises","tag-hunger","tag-israel-palestine-conflict","tag-julian-assange","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40970","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=40970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}