South Africa, Cape Town – The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) is going to Gaza, EFF MP Magdalene Moonsamy said on Wednesday.
Speaking from the back of a truck outside Parliament’s main gates in Cape Town, she told a crowd of pro-Palestinian demonstrators that her party stood with them. “We are going to go to Gaza … we pledge solidarity with the people of Gaza,” Moonsamy said.
Earlier, thousands of chanting demonstrators streamed up Plein Street and gathered outside the parliamentary complex. The crowd, which stretched over several city blocks, held aloft scores of banners and posters calling for an end to the violence in Palestine’s Gaza Strip.
“Israel should be wipe [sic] out of the map” and “Netanyahu: Hitler’s clone” were among the poster messages displayed. The march comes a day after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned that his country would “expand and intensify” its campaign against Palestinian organisation Hamas.
The Jewish state has been conducting air strikes against the Palestinian territory in retaliation for rockets fired out of Gaza into Israel. Palestinian officials say at least 200 people have been killed in the air strikes, including children…
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