Community Reports
"Scots people, outraged at Israel's atrocities in killing unarmed civilians in a convoy delivering humanitarian aid to the Gazan Palestinians suffering under the blockade, took to the streets to protest. Protests took place in Edinburgh, Stirling, Dundee, Inverness, Aberdeen, Moffat, Banff and in Glasgow. The Glasgow demonstration took place in George square and after gathering and listening to speeches interspersed with chanting from the crowd, the demonstrators began to march around the square with chants of "Free, free Palestine! End the siege of Gaza!" and "Israel, terrorist!" There was a sea of Palestinian flags and placards reading "end the siege of Gaza" or "boycott Israel"."
"As a result of the Israeli massacre of unarmed civilians delivering humanitarian aid in a flotilla of ships to empoverished Palestinians blockaded in the Gaza strip, demonstrations have been held world-wide to protest the atrocities. There were several demonstrations across Scotland including Edinburgh, Stirling, Dundee, Inverness, Aberdeen, Moffat and Banff. This video is of the one that took place in Glasgow. Initially people gathered and chanted a while before speeches were made (which can be seen in separate videos), then after the speeches were finished a lot more chanting started and people began to march around the square. Many slogans were chanted such as Free, free Palestine! End the Siege of Gaza!", "Israel, terrorist!" and "Victory to the Intifada!" At one point (about half way through the video) a demonstrator mounts the central monument in George Square and waves a Palestinian flag from on high, much to the delight of the other demonstrators"
Glasgow demonstration in George square With speeches and march around the square
There is a much bigger Scottish-wide demo planned for Saturday as well as one down south in London. Pressure will be put on all heads of government to sever diplomatic ties with Israel until they have lifted the blockade on Gaza and stopped the genocide they are perpetrating on the Palestinian and the murders of anyone who tries to give humanitarian aid to the Palestinians.