‘Stop the genocide’: Thousands of pro-Palestine rallies in Arab World, Europe

An estimated 6,000 people took to the streets in Jordan’s capital Amman against the ongoing attack on Gaza, some chanting slogans calling for Hamas to intensify its strikes against Israel.

“This is to show our absolute condemnation of the massacres that the colonial settler-state Israel is doing in Gaza,” demonstrator Hisham Bustani told Al Jazeera.

He called on the Jordanian government to cancel its $10bn deal to import Israeli gas.

“We’re also calling for shutting down all diplomatic ties with Israel and a freeze to the Israeli-Jordanian peace treaty. We no longer have faith in the so-called international community, in international law. It has double standards, it is hypocritical. Palestinians are allowed to be bombarded and killed, aid is not allowed to reach them. People now can truly see the politics of power.”

Hundreds of Iraqi protesters gathered at the western Trebil border crossing near Jordan in a demonstration organised by the Coordination Framework, an alliance of Iran-backed Shia political groups and militias in Iraq.

The pro-Iran coalition also called for a protest in Baghdad near the main gate of the highly fortified international zone, where the US embassy is located, to condemn its endorsement of Israel in the continuing war on Gaza.

Protesters waved Palestinian flags and chanted “No to Israel” before praying in the presence of religious leaders.

In recent days, Iran-backed militias attacked American military bases in Iraq. Iran has warned an Israeli ground incursion into Gaza could spark an escalation from allied armed groups and a possible regional war.