Sit ins in Syria, in Solidarity with the Palestinians against the Israeli Aggression
GOVERNORATES,(ST)_In denunciation and condemnation of the brutal Israeli aggression against Gaza Strip and in solidarity with its people and deploring Arab and international silence over acts of killing , hundreds of Syrian and Arab students at the University of Damascus staged a sit- in on Sunday in front of the UN headquarters in Damascus.
The demonstrating students chanted slogans confirming the steadfastness of the Syrian and Palestinian peoples ,condemning the conspiracy hatched by some Arab countries and Arab regimes against Syria . They were hoisting banners which read: ” the Arab League has become a tool in the hand of the United States and Israel, selling Arab rights for money and interests.”
Statements read by the secretary of the Arab students organizations, the Sudanese, Lebanese, the African and Syrian students unions at Damascus university noted that their sit-in is, but a manifestation of their solidarity with the people of Syria and Palestine in their crisis, considering that both the Arab and African nations are linked to a common destiny and common goal against international conspiracies, calling for mobilizing all efforts in providing them a support.
Similar sit ins were observed by hundreds of students in Tartous, and in a candle-lit silent march in Salhab town in Hama in support of Gaza , regretting the Israeli aggression.
In Qunietra, hundreds of citizens from the occupied Golan heights gathered in Sultan Basha al-Atrash Square in the occupied Majdal Shams town, voicing unlimited support for the Palestinians of Gaza against the Israeli brutality.
On behalf of the steadfast Palestinians, freed Syrian prisoners, Bishr al-Maqt renewed the support of the people of the Golan to their Palestinian brothers in Gaza, stressing that “the Palestinian resistance which received all forms of support from Syria, proved itself as the sole way to restore the usurped Arab rights.”
T. Fateh