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Thousands of people around the world demonstrated on Saturday in support of Gaza residents ahead of the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks.

Marches took place in Paris, Manila, Cape Town and other major cities in the run-up to the anniversary of the Hamas attacks that killed about 1,200 people in Israel, according to Israeli authorities. The subsequent Israeli war in Gaza killed more than 40,000 Palestinians in the months that followed, according to the Strip’s Ministry of Health.

Agmis Khoury said: “Unfortunately, despite all our good intentions, the Israeli government is not paying attention, and is moving forward and continuing its atrocities in Gaza, and now also in Lebanon and Yemen, and now also most likely in Iran.” , one of the demonstrators in London“This Holocaust survivor says: Stop genocide in Gaza,” he told Reuters, holding a sign that read.

Reem Bouganmi, a Tunisian demonstrator who joined Saturday’s march RomeHe told Reuters: “We came here to say no to war, to say no to genocide in Gaza, Lebanon and Yemen, no more war and no more support from the Italian state.”

“I am here to support the Palestinian people, especially the children and women who are subjected to violations and bombings every day. It cannot be right that we sit and watch what Netanyahu does. Enough is enough: Palestine belongs to the Palestinian people, not to the Israelis,” demonstrator Nikoy Jinto told AFP. Cape Town.

in DublinHundreds of demonstrators marched chanting “Ceasefire now!” “Free, free, Palestine!”

In Israel: The Forum for Families of Hostages and Missing Persons announced Thursday that it will not hold its weekly Saturday rallies in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem due to the “security situation” in the area. But dozens of marches are still scheduled today in other locations.