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T A Ameerudheen

‘Informed solidarity’: Why India’s Kerala saw mass rallies for Palestinians

A rally in Kerala to protest Israel's attack on Gaza [Handout: Indian Union Muslim League]

Kozhikode, India – Thousands of kilometres away from the Gaza Strip, which is undergoing what many observers call a “genocide”, people in southern India’s Kerala state are flocking to public spaces to join protests and candlelight vigils in solidarity with the Palestinians.

More than 11,300 Palestinians – nearly half of them children – have been killed in Israeli air strikes and ground attacks on Gaza since October 7 when Hamas, in an unprecedented move, entered Israel and killed 1,200 people, according to official figures.

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