Thousands of people joined ‘March for Gaza’ in Dhaka

Tahsin Ahmed

Thousands of people on Saturday joined ‘March for Gaza’ in Dhaka in solidarity with Palestine and promised to stand by the people of Gaza. The marchers from different corners of Dhaka and nearby areas, carrying the national flags of Bangladesh and Palestine, banners and festoons mostly reading ‘Free Palestine’ and ‘Save Gaza’, and symbolic corpses thronged to Suhrawardy Udyan in the city. Different political parties, social organizations and Islamic Scholars joined the program organized under the banner of the Palestine Solidarity Movement, Bangladesh, demanding the establishment of an independent Palestine and an end to the Israel military’s bombardment and mass killing in Gaza. They rocked the city by chanting the slogan ‘Free Gaza, Free Palestine’, ‘Oust Israel from Gaza’, and ‘Save children in Gaza’.