voices against the continued genocide in Gaza<\/strong> and the escalation of violence in the occupied territories,\u201d adding the reported figure of nearly 27,000 Gazans killed by Israel since October 7 last year.<\/p>\nThey criticised the European Union and other western powers for electing to defund the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) \u201cexactly when more aid is needed\u201d after some members of the organisation were accused of being involved in the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel.<\/p>\n
They added their demands for an immediate permanent ceasefire, and end to the blockade of humanitarian aid entering Gaza, and for Israel to take its \u201chands off the West Bank\u201d.<\/p>\n
Saturday\u2019s protest is the first of its kinds since the Palestinian embassy in Nicosia said it was \u201cstunned and disappointed\u201d at the Cypriot foreign ministry\u2019s characterisation of the genocide charges Israel faces<\/strong> at the International Court of Justice as \u201cinaccurate\u201d.<\/p>\nMinistry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis had spoken of \u201ccollateral damage\u201d during an interview with Radio Astra, prompting a vehement response from ambassador Abdallah Attari.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe were stunned when the 24,000 dead Palestinians, the 60,000 injured, the countless missing under the rubble, and the over 2 million Palestinians displaced without a safe shelter were reported as \u2018collateral casualties\u2019<\/strong>,\u201d he said.<\/p>\nPro-Palestine protests have previously taken place in Nicosia, Limassol and Larnaca, as well as at the British base in Akrotiri, where 500 people turned out in January to protest the United Kingdom\u2019s use of the base to bomb Yemen after the Yemen-based Houthi movement had attacked ships headed for Israel in the Red Sea.<\/p>\n
Pro-Palestine protestors also attended Akel\u2019s youth wing Edon\u2019s march on British military facilities in Troodos at the end of last month.<\/p>\n
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The latest pro-Palestine protest in Cyprus occurred in Nicosia’s central Eleftheria square on a Saturday. The protest organizers claimed that nearly 27,000 Gazans had been killed by Israel since October 7 of the previous year. They criticized the European Union and other Western powers for choosing to defund the UNRWA after some members were accused of involvement in Hamas attacks on Israel on October 7. The protesters demanded an immediate permanent ceasefire, an end to the blockade of humanitarian aid to Gaza, and for Israel to stop its actions in the West Bank. This protest followed a statement from the Palestinian embassy in Nicosia expressing disappointment with the Cypriot foreign ministry’s description of the genocide charges Israel faces at the International Court of Justice as “inaccurate.” Ministry spokesman Theodoros Gotsis had referred to the Palestinian casualties as “collateral damage,” which was met with a strong response from ambassador Abdallah Attari. Pro-Palestine protests have also occurred in other Cypriot cities and at British military facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2838,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[122,671,378,461,3,145,607,250,298,496,399,187,299,582,157,24,406,345,762,462,120,463,577,701,531,454,197,134,685],"class_list":["post-2837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cyprus","tag-aid","tag-akel","tag-akrotiri","tag-british","tag-cyprus","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-google","tag-hamas","tag-houthi","tag-humanitarian-aid","tag-international","tag-israel","tag-justice","tag-larnaca","tag-limassol","tag-nicosia","tag-palestine","tag-palestinian-demo","tag-palestinians","tag-picks4","tag-protest","tag-protests","tag-red-sea","tag-refugees","tag-troodos","tag-united-kingdom","tag-violence","tag-yemen"],"acf":{"keyphrase":"","keywords":"","sourceimg":"","country-category":""},"yoast_head":"\n
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