Arabs and Jews hold anti-occupation rally in Jerusalem

‘Thousands of Jews and Arabs have united for a peace rally against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands, after Tel Aviv officially approved the construction of a new West Bank settlement for the first time in 25 years, triggering an avalanche of criticism.
Some 2,000 people shouting “Jews and Arabs are not enemies” and “No to a government of annexation” marched from west Jerusalem to the Old City’s Jaffa Gate. Holding both Israeli and Palestinian flags, the demonstrators demanded an end to illegal settlement expansion.
The rally is meant to “protest against the continued Israeli control over the territories and especially East Jerusalem, and in favor of a peaceful solution and justice for both peoples,” Standing Together, an umbrella movement of pro-peace organizations and left-wing parties said in a statement, according to Haaretz.’
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