Melbourne protest at Israel's attack on Gaza - 30 December 2008

Protest against Israel's attacks on the Palestinian Gaza territory hastily organised in Melbourne on December 30, 2008.

The rally was called by Justice for Palestine and the Palestinian Community Assocation " for people to support the citizens of Gaza who have been subjected to another massacre by the occupying Israeli Occupation Force". Hundreds of people, primarily civilians, have been killed with thousands more injured in the bombing and rocket attacks with military forces massing to invade Gaza.

Two minute's silence was observed at the rally which also heard from a young muslim women - a refugee from Gaza. The rally attracted a broad cross section of people, but especially muslim families. Organisers estimated the crowd at 3,000, police estimated 1500, while SBS World News estimated around a thousand rallied. After the rally outside the State Library, protestors marched down Swanston Street chanting "Free Palestine" and "Israel Out".
http://justiceforpalestine.org/

View stills by Takver on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/takver/sets/72157611885793346/

Next Rally for GAZA in Melbourne:
Sunday Jan 4 2pm
State Library of Victoria
Cnr Swanston St and La Trobe St, Melbourne

Sign the petition at Avaaz.org to stop the bloodshed:
http://avaaz.org/en/gaza_time_for_peace/

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• Palestine
• Israel
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• Melbourne
• 2008
• massacre

[noplanesforsure2]

These rally's are gay, we need to inform the world that 9/11 was done by Jews as has every act of terror since ww2, wake up...these jews even supplied the explosives in Bali, they did Madrid and London 7/1, these 'Hamas' rockets are manned and fired by Israeli proxy agents..wake up please..stop your slumber, these animals have unlimited budgets, the zionists are even in charhe of these rallies..wake up pleassssse. Look up Israeli terror groups..just do it..wakkkkkkkkke up!!!

[takvera]

Lets not go into conspiracy theories, please. Or I shall be forced to remove posts.

[NAWAHA08]

Brother even your opinion is the majority, the USA supports the evil, they cannot liberate themselves from the powerful jewish community, though many jewish are turning these jews are minority. So long USA will not liberate themselves from Israel and judge on base of truth, we are on the path to a incredible mankind killing war. Only if USA stands up and does not allow Israel this siege and mass killing and this genocide

[PoloniaAmericas]

Israel = German Hitle's Nazi Ghost still a live. This must stop. Free palestine Free Gaza NOW

[uatch]

ww3

[LePetitGrosse]

@IMANSMUMMA if you want to talk about pre existing indigenous people, then the Jews are the real indigenous people, it was mention in the torah, the bible and even the quran itself.

[mykalbim]

Pardon Me For Misspell word is FREEZ!!!!

[mykalbim]

Dont Worry !! The Moment is Comming To Free The Palestines And Freaz The Israilies...

[StoogeWatcher]

These "peace activists" are fascist hypocrites. Where are the protests against suicide bombings?

[TheA340guy]

I was gonna go to this rally. I only found out about it a few hours before it started. Fuckayoooouu Israel!!

[beyzasaunty79]

the orthodox jews always say that its the zion jews that is causing all this ..dont get it mixed up.leave the poor rabbis alone,

[dudemantwo]

sophia haq...what did I say that was racist?

Stop making ad hominums...

Some Polack here is making racist remarks like calling Israel Hitle's Nazi Ghost...

I find it rich...since many Polacks collaborated with the Nazis...

Polack...if you hate Israel...go join Free Gaza Now...

I am sure when you get Israel...you will soon collaborate with Arabs to get "Christ-killers"

Polonia = Collaborators of Nazis