TUNISIANS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST ISRAELI CRIMES
Tunis, 1 Rabiul Akhir 1435/2 February 2014 (MINA) – Dozens of Tunisian associations including Tunisia’s National Front against Zionism organized the demonstration in the capital, Tunis, on Saturday against Israeli crimes in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The Demonstrators also demanded criminalization of any ties between Tunis and Tel Aviv. Protesters slammed Israeli crimes in Syria and Lebanon, while voicing their support for resistance movements in the region.
Morshid Idriss, one of the demonstrators, said, “Zionists are funding and arming terrorists and the media are targeting the Syrian government. Three years on, Syria is still resisting global hegemony. The Syrian Arab army will win against the fierce imperialist attacks of Zionists and the terrorist Wahhabi and Takfiri allies.”
Participants in the demonstration also torched Israeli flags and chanted anti-Zionist slogans, calling for a national protest against Zionism, Press TV reported as quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).
The protest in the Tunisian capital was held a few days after a new interim government was approved by the Tunisian parliament on January 29.
Prime Minister-designate Mehdi Jomaa’s caretaker government has been tasked with guiding Tunisia to elections for a new parliament and president later this year.
Jomaa is Tunisia’s fifth prime minister since the 2011 revolution that toppled former dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.
The Tunisian Revolution also known as the Jasmine Revolution was an intensive campaign of civil resistance, including a series of street demonstrations taking place in Tunisia. The events began on 18 December 2010 and led to the ousting of longtime President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali in January 2011.
It eventually lead to a thorough democratization of the country and to free and democratic elections. They saw the victory of a coalition of the Islamist Ennahda Movement with the centre-left Congress for the Republic and the left-leaning Ettakatol as junior partners.
The demonstrations were precipitated by high unemployment, food inflation, corruption, a lack of freedom of speech and other political freedoms and poor living conditions. The protests constituted the most dramatic wave of social and political unrest in Tunisia in three decades and have resulted in scores of deaths and injuries, most of which were the result of action by police and security forces against demonstrators. (T/P04/E01)
Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)
