A Pro-Palestine procession on Thursday denounced the United States, other major western countries and also India for supporting Israel to carry out genocide against Palestinians.
The procession, which was organised under the banner of 鈥榮tudents and people鈥�, also called on the US president Joe Biden to stop fuelling Israel against the Gazans and change their foreign policy.
People representing a cross-section of society held the rally on Pragati Sarani near the US embassy compound in Gulshan after the Dhaka Metropolitan Police blocked their march towards the embassy.
Rehnuma Ahmed, a writer and activist who was leading the rally, denounced the police action.
鈥榃e thought that the police would be sympathetic to Palestinians and allow us to go,鈥� she said holding聽 a placard inscribed 鈥楤iden, Blinken, you can鈥檛 hide. We charge you with genocide鈥�.
Professor Md Harun Ur Rashid of City Hospital joined the rally and protested against the killings, mostly of innocent children and women.
The US and the United Kingdom are responsible for the killings, he said.
He said that the procession was a part of the ongoing protest against Israel that started from the US by youths and students.
聽鈥榃e are denouncing those Western countries for funding Israeli war machinery,鈥� he added.
He also said that the Indian ruling party Bharatiya Janata Party wanted to send volunteers to support the Israeli government. 鈥榃e also denounce them,鈥� he said.聽
Nagesh Rao, an US citizen who teaches English at a private university in Dhaka, said that they stand against the US policy about Israel.
鈥楨veryone knows now that the US has been funding and arming the Israeli genocide ever since October 7,鈥� he told the procession cordoned by the policemen with riot gears.聽
He said that the US president Joe Biden now gets new name 鈥楪enocide Joe鈥�.
Earlier in the day, the DMP deployed additional police forces around the US embassy in Dhaka and its annexed building in the capital鈥檚 diplomatic enclave as the group called the pro-Palestaine rally around the area.
Deputy commissioner Rifat bin Shamim of the DMP Gulshan division told 抖阴精品 that they were aware about the protest of 鈥榮ome leftist organisations鈥� and additional forces were deployed to protect law and order.
The police officials said that no untoward situation took place other than traffic congestion for 45 minutes.
As of May 9, according to the Al Jazeera, the death toll from the Israeli attacks on Gaza stands at 34,904 people at the least, including more than 14,500 children.
