Nearly 500 people gather outside the Israeli embassy in Brussels, observing a minute of silence for the Israeli and Palestinian victims of Operation Protective Edge, and lighting candles in memory of the 43 Israeli soldiers killed in Gaza.
The protesters emphasize that it is not the people of Gaza who are the enemy of Israel, but rather the terrorists of Hamas and the Islamic Jihad.
“For two weeks, we see foreign pro-Palestinian demonstrations where Israeli flags are burned, where ‘death to Jews’ is cried, where flags of Hamas and Hezbollah are exhibited … Israel is a democracy under siege facing the terrorist organization Hamas, which targets Israeli civilians and uses its own population in Gaza as a human shield. Four thousand kilometers from here there is a struggle between democracy and barbarism, which probably also defines the future of Europe,” said Joel Rubinfeld, president of the Belgian League against Anti-Semitism.
At the same time, some 5,000 people attend a pro-Palestinian rally in Brussels.
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