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14-01-2024
LONDON/ PARIS/ NEW YORK: Pro-Palestinian protests around the world from Johannesburg to Washington, DC call for an end to the genocide.
An overnight Israeli army attack on a house in Rafah killed 14 Palestinians, including a two-year-old girl.
Israeli bulldozers enter Jenin in the occupied West Bank, local sources say.
At least 23,843 people have been killed and more than 60,317 wounded in Israeli attacks on Gaza since October 7. The revised death toll in Israel from the October 7 Hamas attacks stands at 1,139.
Hundreds of thousands of people are taking to the streets across the world to protest against the war in Gaza, as it nears the 100-day mark, and to demand an end to Israel’s offensive.
At rallies on Saturday in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, people gathered at the United States embassy to send a message to Israel’s staunch ally. The US has vetoed United Nations resolutions backed by a vast majority of the UN Security Council calling for an immediate ceasefire.
“We’ve spoken to people here who say they’ve come to show solidarity with Palestinians. People are holding up placards that read: ‘Stop the genocide’, as well as ‘Bombing children is not self-defence’,” said Al Jazeera’s Florence Looi, reporting from Kuala Lumpur.
The demonstrations are part of a “global day of action for Palestine” and to call for an end to the bloodshed that has killed 23,843 people and wounded more than 60,317, according to Palestinian health officials.
Israeli forces have arrested Dalal and Fatima Al-Arouri, the sisters of Saleh Al-Arouri, the senior Hamas official killed in Beirut on January 2, the Wafa news agency is reporting, citing local sources.
The two sisters were among several people arrested during Israeli raids on towns in Ramallah and el-Bireh in the occupied West Bank that took place at dawn on Sunday, Wafa added.
In a video verified by media, the son of one of the two sisters said that Israeli forces who entered his home to arrest his mother, assaulted him and vandalized the house, as well as confiscating photographs of his uncle, Saleh Al-Arouri.
A hotel in the US state of Florida has abruptly cancelled a Muslim organisation’s conference after protesters claimed the group promotes Hamas and anti-Semitism.
The South Florida Muslim Federation said that the Marriott Coral Springs Hotel and Convention Center in Fort Lauderdale informed the group it would not host the conference due to security concerns after receiving about 100 phone calls protesting the event, the Associated Press reported.
Samir Kakli, the president of the federation, said his group did not support terrorism or anti-Semitism, and that the hotel’s decision “came out of nowhere and was a shock to the entire South Florida Muslim community,” according to media.
The media said that Coral Springs Marriott and the hotel chain’s corporate offices did not return phone and email messages seeking comment. (Int’l Monitoring Desk)
