A NUMBER of demonstrations will be held across Scotland today to show solidarity with Palestine.
The demos are due to take place across the country and comes after thousands marched through the streets in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen and Dundee last week.
This week, the demos will take place in:
- Aberdeen – St Nicholas Square – 2pm
- Dundee – City Square – 2pm
- Glasgow – Buchanan Steps – 2pm
- Edinburgh – Princes Street (foot of the mound) – 2pm
- Inverness – outside the Town House – 12pm
The demonstrations come as the border crossing between Egypt and Gaza has opened to let desperately needed aid flow to Palestinians.
Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf welcomed the news.
Writing on Twitter/X, he said: “We need more aid in & we need a humanitarian corridor opened to let the innocent people of Gaza out.
We need more aid in & we need a humanitarian corridor opened to let the innocent people of Gaza out. We continue to join others in the international community demanding the release of all hostages. We need a ceasefire now. Too many innocent people have lost their lives already. https://t.co/vDkWaWJxx3
— Humza Yousaf (@HumzaYousaf) October 21, 2023
“We continue to join others in the international community demanding the release of all hostages.
“We need a ceasefire now. Too many innocent people have lost their lives already.”
Hospitals in Gaza say they are running low on medical supplies and fuel for emergency generators amid a territory-wide power blackout.
The opening comes after more than week of high-level diplomacy by various mediators, including Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and US president Joe Biden.
Israel had insisted that nothing would enter Gaza until some 200 people captured by Hamas were freed, and the Palestinian side of the crossing had been shut down by Israeli airstrikes.
More than 200 trucks carrying roughly 3000 tons of aid, which had been positioned near the crossing for days, began heading into Gaza.
Hundreds of foreign passport holders also waited to cross from Gaza to Egypt to escape the ongoing conflict.
Elsewhere, Hamas released an American woman and her teenage daughter, the first captives to be freed after the militant group’s October 7 incursion into Israel.
