(5 Apr 2024)
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Cape Town, South Africa - 5 April 2024
1. Protesters with flags and posters chanting slogans as they march to parliament to hand over a memorandum of demands
2. Protesters with a banner reading “QUDS INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE OPPRESSED CAPE TOWN” walking over a banner of US and Israeli flags
3. Marchers carrying a giant Palestinian flag pass the statue of Nelson Mandela outside the Cape Town City Hall.
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Shameemah Salie, protester:
"The citizens of Palestine, our brothers and sisters in Gaza, the massacre of children, women, journalists, doctors. The brutality, it’s on a scale that we never thought we would see in our lifetime. Today we have seen thousands of people coming out in support of the people of Gaza and in Palestine and we have heard the voices of the people.”
5. Protesters marching with posters and flags
6. Woman carrying poster reading "Boycott Apartheid Israel"
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Mzwanele Nyhontso, Pan African Congress member of Parliament:
"It’s very important that we must come here today now that the Israel doesn’t even stop this genocide. They’ve also defied the ICJ (International Court of Justice) and therefore we are supporting the call for Israel to be sanctioned.”
8. Marchers carrying a giant Palestinian flag
9. Protesters holding up Palestinian and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) flags with Table Mountain in background
10. SOUNDBITE: (English) Waghieda Cassim Soeker, protest organiser :
“We demand of our government to firstly intensify the efforts to secure an end to the genocide and not just for a ceasefire. Number two, to sever all economic, military and diplomatic ties with the terrorist state of Israel immediately. This includes the nullification of all military contracts entered into even by the previous South African government.”
11. Representative of the Department of International Relations & Cooperation signs and receives the memorandum of demands from Cassim Soeker
12. Israeli flag burns after being set alight by protesters
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of people marched through the streets of Cape Town to South Africa’s parliament on Friday to show solidarity with Palestinians.
The march was part of Quds Day protests around the world.
The protest in Cape Town was organised and supported by several organisations including the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, the Pan Africanist Congress, Qibla and members of South Africa’s ruling African National Congress.
Outside parliament a memorandum of demands was read out and handed over to a representative of the Department of International Relations & Cooperation.
Amongst the demands were calls for an arms embargo and a suspension of all trade, diplomatic and economic relations with Israel.
The Palestinian death toll has passed 33,000, with another 75,600 people wounded, Gaza’s Health Ministry said.
The ministry doesn’t differentiate between civilians and combatants in its tally, but says women and children make up two-thirds of the dead.
The war began Oct. 7 when Hamas-led militants stormed into southern Israel, killing some 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and taking around 250 people hostage.
The top U.N. court has concluded there is a “plausible risk of genocide” in Gaza — a charge Israel strongly denies — and the U.N. Security Council has issued a legally binding demand for a cease-fire.
On Friday, the U.N.'s top human rights body passed a non-binding resolution condemning Israel's conduct of the war and calling for other countries to stop shipping weapons to it.
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