A MAJOR pro-Palestine demonstration is to be held in Scotland’s biggest city this weekend with people urged to “join the outcry for humanity”.
The protest on Glasgow Green on Saturday – which will demand a ceasefire in the Middle East –has been organised by the Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee and is being dubbed Scotland’s national demonstration "against Palestinian genocide".
It will take place at 1pm near the Nelson Monument, with participants being asked to enter via The Arches Saltmarket side.
Organisers have said: “Join us at Glasgow Green to halt the Palestinian genocide.
“Your presence is a powerful cry for justice. March with us as we unite for change and bring an end to the violence. Stand shoulder to shoulder with thousands in a historic show of solidarity.
“Act now for ceasefire —every step, every voice, can tip the scales.”
The Gaza Genocide Emergency Committee comprises of a variety of organisations including the Muslim Council of Scotland, the Muslim Association of Britain, the Scottish Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Palestine Action Scotland.
Trade unionists and workers have been invited to gather outside the High Court in Glasgow at 12.40pm with the Workers for Palestine bloc ahead of the start of the march.
Last weekend, thousands packed into Buchanan Street in support of Palestine as speakers including the SNP’s depute leader Keith Brown and eight-year-old Jeewan Wadi, who was born in Gaza in 2014, addressed marchers.
There is also set to be a Stop the War demonstration held outside the Scottish Parliament on Tuesday at 1pm when a debate is to be held on calling for a ceasefire.
Communications systems in the Gaza Strip have been down for the past couple of days causing aid agencies to halt cross-border deliveries of humanitarian supplies amid warnings people could soon face starvation.
Israel has been pushing deeper into Gaza City, and its troops have been searching Gaza’s biggest hospital, Shifa, for traces of a Hamas command centre the military alleges is located under the building.
The war, now in its sixth week, was triggered by Hamas’ October 7 attack in southern Israel, in which the militants killed more than 1200 people, mostly civilians, and captured some 240 men, women and children.
