The demonstrators converged on the Palestine Square in central Tehran on Wednesday to condemn Israel’s war on Gaza and the regime’s repeated violations of a ceasefire that came into effect in the Palestinian territory last month.
Chanting anti-Israel and anti-US slogans, they voiced their strong aversion to crimes by Israelis and their sympathy for Gaza as they held the portraits of the slain resistance front leaders.
“We have gathered once again in the face of the crimes of the Zionist regime today in the Palestine Square to decry the inhumane actions of the infamous Zionist regime," a communiqué issued at the rally said.
It cited the "massacre of thousands of innocent women and children, attacks on clinics under the supervision of the United Nations, bombing of vital infrastructure in Gaza like desalination plants, the destruction of the historical fabric of Rafah, the food blockade of Gaza, the burning of journalists' residences, and the thousands of other crimes that have emerged from the cancerous tumor of Israel just in the past 10 days”.
The demonstrators pointed to Israel's disregard for international law in its atrocious war on Gaza.
“Israel has effectively rendered international institutions such as the United Nations, the Security Council, and the International Court of Justice ineffective, turning the reputation of these international bodies into a plaything for itself.”
Israel has killed over 1,390 Palestinians since it resumed the campaign of genocide in Gaza on March 18, unilaterally ending a two-month ceasefire that had brought relative calm to the territory and facilitated the release of the Israeli captives.
The fatalities have brought the total death toll since October 2023 to 50,752, according to the Gaza health ministry.