Les plus belles images de la solidarité mondiale avec les Palestiniens nous viennent d'Australie, où plusieurs milliers de personnes ont manifesté dimanche dernier. Regardez: ils et elles sont magnifiques.
Marching as one... 14,000km from the frontline: Thousands take to Sydney streets calling for Israel to stop its bombardment of Gaza
Marching as one... 14,000km from the frontline: Thousands take to Sydney streets calling for Israel to stop its bombardment of Gaza
- More than 2000 marched down George Street in Sydney's centre
- It is Sydney's second major pro-Palestine rally in a fortnight
- So far more than 350 Palestinians and seven Israelis have been killed in the 13-day conflict
- Rally called on Australian leaders to 'stand up'
Schoolchildren have led thousands of protesters through Sydney's CBD, demanding an end to Israel's military offensive in Gaza.
Stunned
shoppers watched on as a crowd of more than 2000 marched down George
Street, waving flags and chanting, 'In our thousands, in our millions,
we are all Palestinian.'
It is Sydney's second major pro-Palestine rally in a fortnight.
Parramatta
woman Buthania Saeed took her children to Sunday's protest, which came
days after four youngsters were killed in an air strike as they played
on a beach in Gaza City.
'I'm here as a mum to raise awareness of what's happening in Gaza,' Ms Saeed, 41, told AAP.
'All we're seeing is women and children being murdered, houses are being burnt down and families are being vanished.'
One
demonstrator held up a baby doll swaddled in fake blood-drenched
sheets, and stretcher bearers carried child-like figures wrapped in
white.
More than 350 Palestinians and seven Israelis have been killed in the 13-day conflict.
Rally master of ceremonies Ophelia Haragli called on Australian leaders to 'stand up'.
'You
don't have to look far, you only have to look at the pictures on the
screens, and touch your heart to know that what's going on in Israel is a
massacre,' Ms Haragli said.
NSW
Greens MP David Shoebridge, who addressed the crowd, wants the federal
government to use Australia's position on the UN Security Council to
push for a ceasefire.
Elsewhere
in Sydney, deputy federal opposition leader Tanya Plibersek said an end
to the conflict was urgently needed, though she did not outline the
role Australia might play in reaching any detente.
'Of
course the rockets must stop,' Ms Plibersek told reporters on Sunday.
'Hamas must agree to a ceasefire, and I also urge Israel to ensure that
any response to that rocket fire is proportionate and spares the lives
of civilians.'