The annual Al-Quds rally in support of the Palestinian people will take place this year on 5th April.

The date has been set in coordination with other pro-Palestinian groups for the last Friday in the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the day traditionally set aside for the international commemoration.

This year’s event looks set to take place amid an ongoing genocide in Gaza which has so seen Israeli forces slaughter 30,000 civilians in Gaza, most of them women and children. At the same time armed colonial settlers and troops are running rampage in the occupied West Bank, invading, looting and attacking Palestinian towns and villages.

With the international community turning a blind eye or actively complicit in the slaughter, even as the International Court of Justice deliberates on a charge of genocide against the Zionist state, this year’s march and rally is likely to draw even larger crowds than usual.

The Al-Quds Day demo has taken place peacefully in London for over 40 years without a single arrest. One of its attractions has always been its inclusiveness with demonstrators coming from all walks of life. Jews, Christians and Muslims, and people of other faiths and none all march in common cause side by side. The event also attracts many women and children.

This year, participants will gather at the Home Office in central London before marching to Downing Street.

Al-Quds Day is being supported by the following organisations:

Ahlulbayt Islamic Mission, Black Lives Matter Coalition UK, CAMPAIN, Convivencia Alliance, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism!, Islamic Human Rights Commission, Jewish Network for Palestine, Leeds University Palestine Solidarity Group, Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK, Neturei Karta, No2NATO, Palestine Pulse, Peacekeeper Trust, & Scotland Palestine Solidarity Campaign.

Further details are available here.

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