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Wednesday, May 8, 2024
100 EU staffers stage pro-Palestinian protest in Brussels
More than 100 staff members of European Union institutions gather in Brussels to protest Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza.
Protesters lay three rolled-up white sheets with red stains on them on the square outside the European Commission’s head office in the Belgian capital.
#Gaza EU staff present a moving ceremony in the center of Schuman in between the EU institutions in protest against the EU’s weakness on the bloodshed in Gaza. pic.twitter.com/UglFgjrepS
— Shona Murray (@ShonaMurray_) May 8, 2024
On the three “bodies,” the words International Law, EU Treaties and Genocide Convention are written, in a protest of the way Israel has waged its war against the terror group following its October 7 attack.
“We’re coming together in a peaceful assembly, to stand up for those rights, principles and values that the European institutions are build on,” EU Commission staff member Manus Carlisle tells Reuters. “The reasons why we work here and love to work here. Those values of human rights, human dignity and freedom especially.”
The Times of Israel Community.