From the Liveblog of
Tuesday, November 7, 2023
1,400 Israel flags placed in iconic Brazil beach to honor Hamas massacre victims
On Rio de Janeiro’s iconic Copacabana beach, nonprofit Rio de Paz has planted 1,400 blue-and-white Israeli flags in honor of those killed by Hamas one month ago, and 34 photos of the children and teenagers who were taken hostage.
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1400 Israeli flags in memory of the 1400 victims of the terror attack. pic.twitter.com/CD5jmi43Gb
— Yonatan Gonen (@GonenYonatan) November 7, 2023
Last week, Rio de Paz staged a similar demonstration to denounce the Hamas-claimed deaths of thousands of children in Gaza. The group draped dozens of white sheets stained with fake blood on the sand as if they were covering dead bodies, along with the names and ages of some of the victims.
“This war will go down in history as the war that killed children, with both sides capable of showing indifference to the most vulnerable,” said the group’s founder, Antônio Carlos Costa.
