Palestinians in the occupied West Bank protested on Sunday against the war in Gaza and to show solidarity with Palestinians held in Israeli prisons, according to AFP.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered at the main square in Ramallah and waved the Palestinian flags in one of the largest marches held on Sunday.
They carried photos of Palestinians killed or imprisoned by Israel, along with photos embodying the hunger crisis unfolding in the Palestinian enclave during the 21 months of war.
“My son is in (Israel’s) Megido prison and he suffers from many things, such as the lack of medicine the lack of food,” Rula Ghanem, a Palestinian academic and writer who took part in the march, told AFP.
Since the beginning of Gaza War, the number of Palestinians jailed by Israel have skyrocketed due to violent acts or posting political statements on social media.
“The international community is a partner in all this suffering, as long as it does not intervene quickly to save the Palestinian people and save the prisoners inside the prisons and detention center,” the Palestinian Commission of Detainees’ and Ex-Detainees’ Affairs’ spokesman Thaer Shriteh told AFP.
Other major Palestinian cities such as Nablus in the north and Hebron in the south also witnessed wide protests with several government employees receiving a day off to attend the demonstrations.
Dozens of Gazans including children have lost their souls due to malnutrition throughout the war that started in October 2023.
Since the beginning of Hamas-Israel War, the Israeli strikes have killed more than 60,332 Palestinians and wounded over 145,870, according to Gaza’s Health Ministry.
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