Pro-Palestinians March on Gadigal to End Genocide for 65th Week: In Photos

The 65th consecutive weekly Free Palestine protest took place on Gadigal land in Sydney’s Hyde Park North on Sunday 5 January 2025.

The city has never seen such a prolonged and continuous protest action before, but then again, the world has never witnessed a 24/7 live streamed high-tech settler colonial mass murder of people for land in the past.

The globe has neither seen a nation tear down the norms of international law in quite the same way either.

Israel has, and is continuing to, set new precedents regarding how future wars shall be fought, with civilians, children, doctors, nurses and journalists all fair game, and hospitals are now key targets in warfare.

“We come here with no English. A different language. We work hard to learn the other language. To communicate with the western world and they still look at us like terrorists,” said Bob Mouammar, who’s been drumming out front of the Palestine Action Group demonstrations for the past 15 months. “They still look at us like criminals.”

“We’ve been here for fifteen months. We protest on the street…. Just to stop the war. That is what we’ve been asking for. What a crime in this world?” continued the Palestinian man, who grew up in the heart of Lebanon.

Throughout the last 65 weeks, pro-Palestinians showing solidarity in anyway, especially in the form of the public protests here on Gadigal land and in Naarm-Melbourne, have been demonised.

Federal, NSW and Victorian Labor politicians have decried these actions, like Mouammar said, as if they were criminal.

“What we have seen in the last 15 months is many more people turn up than we’ve ever seen before to rally in support of Palestinian liberation and against Israel’s crimes,” said Palestine Action Group organiser Josh Less.

“We’ve had people here every single week, from all different backgrounds, Muslims, Christians, Jews, standing together for peace, demanding an end to war, demanding an end to genocide.”

“Yet, it’s us who have been demonised in the media. It is us who have been made out to be the violent ones or the terrorists by our politicians and media,” Lees further underscored.

“It highlights that there is something deeply sick about our society and its institutions, when we see the way they’ve acted toward the genocide for the last fifteen months.”

Sydney Criminal Lawyers was on the ground on Sunday to show solidarity and to call for an end to the genocide.