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Tens of thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators paraded Sunday in Sydney, crossing its emblematic Harbor Bridge bridge. The founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange, joined the procession.
(Keystone-ATS) The protesters walked in a pouring rain, chanting “a ceasefire now” and “release Palestine”, while banners bore the names of thousands of children killed in the war between Israel Hamas Israel in the Gaza Strip for almost 22 months.
Julian Assange, returned to Australia in June 2024, walked near the head of the procession with his family. He did not speak to journalists.
After staying seven years reclusive in the Equator Embassy in London, the activist spent five years behind bars in England, opposing his extradition to the United States which pursued him for having published diplomatic and military Top secret information.
“The moral stupor, cowardice and complicity allowed Israel to do what he did with impunity,” said ecological senator Mehreen Faruqi during the demonstration.
Australia is one of the 15 countries that launched a collective appeal on Wednesday, at the end of a ministerial conference in New York, to express their desire to recognize a Palestinian state.
But Canberra has not announced a concrete recognition project as France, the United Kingdom or Canada, seek to keep the two states solution in recent days, a hypothesis defused by the war in Gaza.