Friday, July 26, 2024

Scotland national Gaza demonstration – everything you need to know

Lucy Jackson
Fri, 26 July 2024 


The demonstration will be held in Glasgow on Saturday

A NATIONAL demonstration calling for a ceasefire in Gaza will take place this weekend.

The Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee (GGEC) has organised a rally in Glasgow’s George Square on Saturday.

The demonstration will start at 1pm, where there will be a march followed by a rally.

 

A number of speakers are set to address the crowd following the march, including:

  • Professor Khaled Beydoun

  • Dr Khamis Elessi

  • Declan Welsh

  • Elsie Kanaan

  • Humza (FOA)

  • Samia Abdel-Haday

  • Mila & Mourad Saad

For anyone coming to the demonstration from Edinburgh who wishes to travel with others, a group will meet outside the Boots inside Waverley Station, to take the 11.45am train to Glasgow Queen Street.

The national demonstration comes as more than 39,000 Palestinians have been killed by Israel’s military offensive in Gaza since October 7.

On Friday, the UK Government confirmed it would drop the previous Conservative government’s plans to lodge a challenge against the International Criminal Court’s application for an arrest warrant against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The decision comes after a group of independent MPs wrote to Foreign Secretary David Lammy, calling for the legal challenge to be dropped.

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