The Islamic Solidarity Platform organized a protest march in Istanbul, starting from the Barbaros Hayreddin Pasha Mosque in the Levent district and heading toward the Israeli consulate building. Participants chanted slogans against Israel and the United States and held up a large banner reading: "No hospitals or medicine in Gaza, there is a massacre... There is no bread left in Gaza and no shame in the world."
Protesters marched from the mosque to the Israeli Consulate General in Istanbul, chanting slogans against Tel Aviv and the United States. During the march, demonstrators banged kitchen utensils on empty pots in front of the Israeli Consulate General in Istanbul to draw attention to the famine in Gaza.
In Tunis, hundreds of Tunisians participated in an event dubbed the "US Embassy Siege," at the invitation of the Joint Action Coordination for Palestine and the Tunisian Network to Confront the Normalization System. Protest tents were set up in front of the US embassy.
Ghassan al-Hanshiri, a member of the coordination committee, said the sit-in came "because the official partner and supporter of this entity is the American enemy." He added, "We will continue the siege until humanitarian aid enters Gaza."
Participants emphasized their demands, including the closure of the US embassy in Tunisia, the expulsion of its ambassador, and the cessation of military cooperation with Washington. They raised slogans including, "The crime is Zionist, the missile is American," and "The masses have one demand: close the embassy and expel the ambassador."
In Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina, dozens of activists gathered in Bascarsija Square and marched toward the Children's Memorial, carrying a large Palestinian flag and banners reading: "Gaza is starving, and the world just watches" and "Stop killing innocent children."
Participants banged on cooking pots, symbolizing famine, to express their solidarity with civilians in Gaza, especially children suffering from severe malnutrition.
These popular movements coincide with the announcement by the Ministry of Health in Gaza on Saturday that five Palestinians, including two children, had been killed within 24 hours as a result of Israel's starvation policy. This brings the total number of deaths from famine and malnutrition since October 7, 2023, to 127 Palestinians, including 85 children.
With the complete closure of crossings and the ban on the entry of food and medicine since March 2, famine has spread throughout the Gaza Strip, and symptoms of severe malnutrition have appeared among children and patients.
This comes at a time when Israel, with US support, is waging a war of extermination in Gaza, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt the campaign.
The US-backed genocide left more than 204,000 Palestinians dead or wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 9,000 missing, in addition to hundreds of thousands of displaced persons and a famine that claimed the lives of many.
