{"id":58108,"date":"2025-07-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/2025\/07\/20\/massive-rally-in-tunisia-in-support-of-stricken-gaza-chants-against-siege-starvation-and-occupation-crimes\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:00:00","slug":"massive-rally-in-tunisia-in-support-of-stricken-gaza-chants-against-siege-starvation-and-occupation-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iumsonline.cloud\/en\/2025\/07\/20\/massive-rally-in-tunisia-in-support-of-stricken-gaza-chants-against-siege-starvation-and-occupation-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Massive Rally in Tunisia in Support of Stricken Gaza: Chants Against Siege, Starvation, and Occupation Crimes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#EE0000;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Massive Rally in<br \/>\nTunisia in Support of Stricken Gaza: Chants Against Siege, Starvation, and<br \/>\nOccupation Crimes<o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">On Saturday evening, dozens of<br \/>\nTunisians participated in a protest stand in front of the Municipal Theatre in<br \/>\ndowntown Tunis, expressing solidarity with the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip,<br \/>\nwho have been subjected to a continuous genocidal war for 21 months.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">The rally was organized by the<br \/>\n\u201cSupporters of Palestine\u201d Association, where participants raised slogans<br \/>\ndemanding an end to the aggression, lifting the siege, and opening crossings to<br \/>\nallow food and medicine entry.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Murad Al-Yaacoubi, a member of<br \/>\nthe association, stated that the situation in Gaza is \u201cextremely dire, amid<br \/>\nescalating famine, suffocating siege, and slow killings carried out with the<br \/>\ncomplicity of major powers,\u201d adding, \u201cPeople are on the brink of death \u2014 and<br \/>\nthis is no exaggeration. Many have died of starvation.\u201d<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">He confirmed that such<br \/>\nprotests are now held weekly despite the pain, amid a significant wave of<br \/>\nglobal abandonment, noting that Tunisian popular engagement is increasing, even<br \/>\namong children.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#EE0000;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Daily Massacres<br \/>\nand Systematic Starvation<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">In this context, the Gaza<br \/>\nMinistry of Health confirmed that more than 900 Palestinians \u2014 including 71<br \/>\nchildren \u2014 have died from hunger and malnutrition since the start of the war,<br \/>\nwhile over 6,000 others were injured while searching for food.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">On Sunday morning, the<br \/>\noccupation committed a horrific crime northwest of Gaza City, killing 54<br \/>\npeople, including 51 aid seekers, and injuring more than 60.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">The Ministry of Health pointed<br \/>\nout that the occupation uses starvation as a deadly weapon amid a humanitarian<br \/>\ncatastrophe threatening over two million people due to the complete siege and<br \/>\nthe prevention of aid entry, including medicine and medical supplies, leading<br \/>\nto the collapse of the healthcare system.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><b><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\ncolor:#EE0000;mso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Ongoing<br \/>\nGenocidal War with International Support<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">Since October 7, 2023, the<br \/>\nZionist occupation has continued a genocidal war against the Gaza Strip,<br \/>\nincluding killing, starving, and displacing its people, ignoring international<br \/>\nresolutions and the orders of the International Court of Justice to cease hostilities.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\">So far, the aggression has<br \/>\nresulted in over 199,000 Palestinians killed or injured, most of them children<br \/>\nand women, along with more than 9,000 missing persons and hundreds of thousands<br \/>\ndisplaced, amid a silent famine claiming lives.<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify;line-height:150%\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span style=\"font-size:20.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:&quot;Sakkal Majalla&quot;;\nmso-ansi-language:EN-US;mso-bidi-language:AR-QA\"><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span><span dir=\"LTR\"><\/span>(Source: Agencies)<span lang=\"AR-QA\" dir=\"RTL\"><o:p><\/o:p><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" dir=\"RTL\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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