“Stand Up For Palestine” Demonstration Planned For International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
deadline.comThe Palestine Film Institute is planning to hold a “Stand Up For Palestine” rally on Monday at the International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, the world’s biggest nonfiction film festival.
The demonstration is set for 2 p.m. local time outside the Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, one of the main hubs of IDFA. The PFI emailed festival attendees late Sunday advising them of the demonstration, which comes amid Israel’s continuing siege of Gaza following the devastating October 7 surprise attack on Israel by Hamas, the Islamist group that governs Gaza.
In the early morning raid, Hamas militants killed an estimated 1,200 Israeli civilians and seized more than 240 hostages. Israel’s retaliatory bombing and invasion has killed more than 11,000 Palestinians in Gaza, according to the Hamas-run health ministry.
In its announcement of the demonstration, the Palestine Film Institute wrote, “While unspeakable violence keeps raining down on Gaza, while the Israeli occupation continues to murder Palestinians by their thousands, while genocide is unfolding before our very eyes, we cannot continue business as usual.” The statement added, “We ask you to join us to gather, express solidarity, and join the demand for an immediate ceasefire, an end to the genocide, and an end to the occupation of Palestine.
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