THOUSANDS RALLY IN TUNISIA IN SUPPORT FOR JERUSALEM INTIFADA

Photo: PIC

Tunis, 26 Muharram 1436/8 November 2015 (MINA) – Thousands of Tunisian activists, protesters, and university students Saturday afternoon joined a mass-rally staged in Tunis in support for the Palestinian Jerusalem Intifada.

Tunisian masses flocked to the Habib Bourguiba Avenue in Tunisia’s capital city, Tunis, chanting pro-Palestine slogans and condemning Israeli aggressions on Palestinian civilians and Islamic places of worship, The Palestinian Information Center (PIC) quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA) as reporting.

The rally was staged by the Islamic Ennahda Party and joined by scores of prominent anti-Israel activists.

The rally goers lifted Palestinian and Tunisian flags along with the pictures of the holy al-Aqsa Mosque and prominent activist (co-founder of Hamas Movement) the late Sheikh Ahmad Yassin.

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Scores of demonstrators wore the Palestinian national scarf while children carried stones in solidarity with the Palestinian stone-throwers.

A number of Tunisian activists addressed the masses in speeches aimed at mobilizing mass-support for the Jerusalem Uprising and condemnation of Israeli terrorism.

Ennahda leader Abdul Karim al-Harouni said on the sidelines of the rally: “Tunisia will always stand up for the Palestinian resistance and Intifada; Never shall we accept any kind of normalization with the Israeli occupation; How on earth could anyone normalize with the tyrants, the colonizers, and the terrorists?”

“The Tunisian revolution will set up roots in Occupied Jerusalem,” he said.

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“We trust the Palestinian people. Its youths and women have proven that they are up to the mission allotted to them as they have always stood as al-Aqsa’s and Jerusalem’s bulletproof vest,” al-Harouni added.

The anti-occupation Jerusalem Uprising has started since early October in protest at Israel’s mounting terrorism against Palestinian civilians and desecration schemes at the al-Aqsa Mosque—the third holiest site in Islam.(T/P008/R07)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)

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