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Thousands Protest In Syria Against Israeli Attacks, Rallying In Quneitra And Daraa
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Thousands of Syrians protested nationwide in solidarity with Quneitra and Daraa against Israeli incursions. Protests extended to Idlib, Homs, Damascus, Daraa, Quneitra, and along the Syrian coast.
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Protests across Syria
Thousands of Syrians protested on Friday against Israeli attacks on Syrian territory and in solidarity with the people of Quneitra and Daraa, with activists and civil society organizations calling for protest stands in various Syrian provinces. Hundreds organized a protest stand in front of the United Nations headquarters in Damascus in al-Mazza district to denounce incursions and Israeli attacks and to demand an end to violations and respect for Syria’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.
In Quneitra, hundreds of residents gathered in the city of Khan Arnabeh to protest Israeli attacks and demand the release of dozens of detainees in occupation prisons. In Homs, protesters gathered in al-Sa’a square to reject Israeli attacks in southern Syria and to chant slogans of solidarity with Daraa and Quneitra.
Jamla death sparks rallies
The Media Line said demonstrations spread across several parts of Syria after a young man with a disability was shot by Israeli forces during a military incursion into the village of Jamla in western Daraa countryside on Thursday. The Media Line reported that protests took place in Idlib, Homs, Damascus, Daraa, Quneitra and along the Syrian coast, with demonstrators protesting Israeli military incursions on Syrian territory, particularly in southern Syria.
SANA said Syria strongly condemned the Israeli occupation forces’ killing of a young man with special needs during an incursion into the village of Jamla in the western countryside of Daraa on Thursday. SANA reported that Syria’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates held the Israeli occupation authorities fully responsible for the killing and called on the international community to put an end to repeated Israeli attacks on Syrian territory.
Demands and named speakers
In Daraa city, thousands gathered in Martyrs 18th of March Square for a protest against the practices of the Israeli occupation forces, with people from various towns and villages arriving from Daraa and Quneitra provinces. The Syrian newspaper صحيفة الوطن السورية reported that Adnan Masalama and Abu Mujahid Al-Hariri, members of the People’s Assembly, and Mufleh Kanani, spokesperson for war-w victims, voiced condemnation of Israeli incursions and assaults on citizens’ properties.
The same report said protesters organized a car march that toured the streets of Daraa city and that the stand lasted for two hours while participants expressed readiness to defend the homeland’s soil if necessary. Al-Jazirah Net said participants chanted slogans calling for the immediate release of sons and for the United Nations to act and support their demands, with relatives of victims and detainees in Israeli prisons taking part.