Palestinian bodies and factions have called for the organization of mass marches and protest events in various capitals and cities around the world on Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 13, 14 and 15 November, as part of an escalation of the international popular movement in solidarity with the Gaza Strip and in demand of an end to the aggression and siege and the provision of protection and humanitarian aid to the population.
The calls come amid a worsening humanitarian situation in the Strip, with the tents and shelter centres of displaced people damaged by weather depressions and a continuing severe shortage of shelter and heating supplies, alongside restrictions imposed on the entry of aid and goods.
In this context, the Government Media Office in Gaza called on the free people of the world, Arab and Islamic communities and solidarity movements to participate widely in marches and sit-ins and to press for the entry of equipment, relief materials and shelter supplies needed by the displaced, given the harsh weather conditions the Strip is witnessing.
The Follow-up Committee of the National and Islamic Forces and the resistance factions, for its part, called for broadening the circle of international popular solidarity and highlighting the continuation of the aggression and siege and the starvation of the population, demanding an end to the arming of the occupation.
Hamas also called on political parties, unions and human rights movements to organize mass mobilizations in squares and capitals, and urged scholars, mosque preachers, clerics and churches to dedicate sermons and prayers to supporting Gaza and highlighting the suffering of its residents, especially with the onset of winter.
The demands carried by these movements focus on ending the aggression and siege, opening the crossings to humanitarian aid and shelter materials, bringing in tents and heating supplies, and halting military support for the occupation, in an attempt to exert international pressure to end the humanitarian suffering in the Gaza Strip.
