TOKYO: To honor the thousands of Palestinian victims of the war in Gaza, an evening of Remembrance was organized at Tokyo’s Palestinian Embassy on Saturday, Arab media reported.
Hundreds of people including Japanese and foreigners held candles aloft and remembered the thousands of Palestinian victims in the Gaza Strip. Many among them held banners with slogans such as “Ceasefire Now!”, “End the Israeli Occupation and “Free Palestine Now!”. The event was organized under the title of “Lights for Gaza; let’s remember their stories and faces together.”
Gaza War Victims Remembered at Palestinian Embassy in Japan
Palestinian Ambassador to Japan Waleed Siam made a speech that started by reminding people of the extent of Israel’s acts “which aim at extermination of the Palestinian people.” He said that churches, mosques, their homes, and neighbourhoods were bombed by Israel. He added that fifty percent of Gaza has been destroyed by Israel. What is taking place in Gaza today and for the last 29 days is genocide, he remarked. He added that it is the extermination of the Palestinian people, “they are forcing us out of our land again.”
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The Ambassador recalled that about 900,000 Palestinian people were forced off their soil in 1948 and alleged Israel of wanting to repeat the same crimes and expel their people from the Gaza Strip.
He added that this is a war where they took their land by force, “we have the right to resist and have been resisting for the last 75 years. He said, “they are dehumanizing and killing us in the West Bank”. He told the event illegal settlers are also killing Palestinians.”
