Atila Altuntas<\/p>\n
13 June 2026\u2022Update: 13 June 2026<\/p>\n
Hundreds of people gathered in central Stockholm on Saturday to protest Israeli military operations in the Palestinian territories and Lebanon.<\/p>\n
The demonstration, organized by several civil society groups in Odenplan Square, condemned what participants described as Israeli attacks in the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.<\/p>\n
Protesters carried banners reading “Children are being killed in Gaza,” “Schools and hospitals are being bombed,” “Stop the attacks on Lebanon,” and “End food shortages.”<\/p>\n
They called on Israel to halt its military operations in Gaza, and urged Sweden to stop arms sales to Israel.<\/p>\n
A group of Iranian participants also joined the demonstration, protesting the US and Israeli policies.<\/p>\n
Aydin Amir Hashimi, a Swedish activist of Azerbaijani origin, said he believed Israel would not be able to carry out such actions against Palestinians without support from Western countries.<\/p>\n
“Without the support of the Western world, Israel could not have taken these steps against the Palestinians,” Hashimi told Anadolu.<\/p>\n
He argued that Western countries had contributed to the process through logistical, moral, and legal support.<\/p>\n
“They have suppressed the Palestinian movement in their own countries, across the European Union and in the United States,” he said.<\/p>\n
Hashimi also alleged that criticism or boycotts of Israel had become punishable in some US states.<\/p>\n
“We will not allow that in Sweden, and we will prevent such recommendations from the EU from becoming law,” he said.<\/p>\n
Despite what he described as threats, hate speech, and pressure from employers, Hashimi said activists would continue supporting the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n
“We are deeply saddened by what is happening and will never forget the suffering of the Palestinians,” he added.<\/p>\n
* Written by Seyma Erkul Dayanc in Istanbul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atila Altuntas 13 June 2026\u2022Update: 13 June 2026 Hundreds of people gathered in central Stockholm on Saturday to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[85,46,43,180804],"class_list":["post-491194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-sitekeywords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}