In Cape Town, the Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) joined the march in “support [of] the people of Palestine”.
“Cosatu is calling on our own government to cut all ties with Israel’s racist government. We [also] call for an immediate ceasefire in Palestine and we ask the Israeli government to get out of Lebanon and Palestine,” it said.
The latest bloodshed in the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict was triggered by the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel, killing 1,200 people, mostly civilians, and in which about 250 hostages were taken, according to Israeli tallies.
Israel’s subsequent assault on the enclave has killed more than 40,000 Palestinians, according to the local health ministry, while also displacing nearly the entire population of 2.3-million.
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