Hundreds of people gathered in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, on August 1 to protest Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank, said an Anadolu report.The demonstration, held at Odenplan Square, called for an immediate ceasefire.
Carrying Palestinian flags, demonstrators marched with banners reading “There is a massacre in Palestine,” “There is genocide in Gaza,” and “Immediate permanent ceasefire for Gaza.”
Israeli Knesset member Ofer Cassif addressed the rally via video link, criticising the Israeli government’s policies toward Palestinians.Citing Israeli philosopher and scientist Yeshayahu Leibowitz, Cassif said the scholar had warned that when a state elevates military power and territorial expansion above all else, it risks moral collapse.
Leibowitz also warned that such a mindset could give rise to what he called “Jewish Nazism,” Cassif said.
“Today, the mass destruction, dispossession and massacres suffered by Palestinians unfortunately demonstrate the accuracy of that warning,” he added.
Meanwhile, Israeli fighter jets struck medical warehouses near a hospital in the central Gaza Strip on August 1, destroying at least half of the facilities and extensively damaging nearby tents sheltering displaced Palestinians, witnesses said.The Israeli army reportedly targeted the warehouses next to Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah, completely destroying two of them and the critical medical supplies within.