Jordanians stage ‘Friday of Rage’ protests in support of Gaza

Jordanians have taken to the streets of the capital Amman to take part in the “Friday of Rage” protests, reiterating their support for Palestinians who have been subjected to Israel’s genocidal war for more than a year.

On Friday, the protesters condemned the Israeli atrocities, particularly the recent massacres committed in the Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza.

Carrying the Palestinian flags, the protesters also mourned and praised Yahya Sinwar, the leader of the Hamas resistance movement, who was killed by Israeli forces last week.

“We pledge allegiance to you. We pledge allegiance to you, Sinwar. We pledge allegiance to you,” they chanted.

During the demonstration, a child sitting on his father’s shoulders said “I am protesting with my brothers and sisters in Jordan for the sake of those dying in Gaza, Jabalia and Rafah.”

“When I see the pictures of children on TV, I feel so sad,” he told Anadolu Agency.

The protesters also demanded the annulment of the so-called peace treaty signed between Jordan and Israel in 1994 and condemned the international silence on the Israeli crimes in Gaza, the occupied West Bank and Lebanon.           

It’s time for the Arab and Muslim governments “to protect their children, women, themselves and their countries,” another protester, identified as Abu Musab, said.

“Isn’t it the time for you to stand with Gaza?”

But reports said that the Jordanian security forces prevented the protesters from marching on the premises of the government, arresting several people.

Israel launched the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, after the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas waged the surprise Operation Al-Aqsa Flood (Storm) against the occupying entity in response to the Israeli regime's decades-long campaign of bloodletting and devastation against Palestinians.

The regime’s bloody onslaught on Gaza has so far killed more than 42,800 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injured over 100,000 others.

Thousands more are also missing and presumed dead under rubble.

Israel has been targeting Lebanon since October 2023, when it launched the genocidal war on the Gaza Strip.

Hezbollah has been responding to the aggression with numerous retaliatory operations, including one with a hypersonic ballistic missile, targeting the occupied Palestinian territories.

Since late September, Israel has escalated its strikes against Hezbollah, killing its leader Hassan Nasrallah and a number of its senior figures.

At least 2,593 people have been killed by Israeli fire, and 12,119 others wounded since the clashes began last year, according to the health ministry.

The Lebanese resistance movement has vowed to keep up its operations against Israel as long as the Israeli regime continues its Gaza war.

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