Date:03/01/2009 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2009/01/03/stories/2009010353790400.htm

New Delhi

Protest against Israeli attack on Gaza

Staff Reporter

Demand to rush humanitarian aid to Palestinian people and end the siege

- Photo: Sandeep Saxena

United we stand: Palestinians along with CPI (M-L)-New Democracy activists demonstrating in New Delhi on Friday in protest against the U.S backed Israeli attack on Gaza.

NEW DELHI: The Delhi Committee of the Communist Party of India (Marxist-Leninist)-New Democracy organised a protest demonstration at Jantar Mantar here on Friday demanding an end to the “US-backed Israeli attacks on Gaza”.

Supporting the Palestinian people’s long struggle, the protesters raised slogans against American imperialism and Israel’s Zionist rulers.

Addressing the protesters, party leaders condemned the Israeli attack launched after a long siege.

“In the current attacks, a large number of children, women and men have been killed and injured and it is a matter of shame that not only has the United States supported the attack openly, even other Western countries are yet to move international forums to put pressure on Israel,” said a statement issued by the party.

“The Israeli Government and the US have never accepted the electoral victory of the Hamas and in this attack the Hamas is being targeted along with random killing of civilians,” said the release, demanding that Israel rebuild Gaza and end the siege.

Speakers at the protest also demanded that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh downgrade the relationship with Israel and rush humanitarian aid to Gaza.