Protests against Israel attacks on Gaza flare in Bangladesh

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Different Islamic parties, mosque-goers and the Gono Odhikar Parishad staged demonstrations in Baitul Mukarram National Mosque area and other parts of the capital on Friday after jumma prayers protesting at Israel’s attacks on Gaza in Palestine.
They waved Palestinian flags and urged world leaders, including the United States, to come forward and force Israel to stop attacks on Gaza and West Bank.
A protest procession was organised from Baitul Mukarram after jumma prayers under the banner of United Muslim Ummah.
Islami Andolan Bangladesh, Khilafat Majlis, Islami Oikya Jote, Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam and other like-minded Islamic parties also brought out protest marches after the prayers.
The protesters asked the US and other western countries to stop their support for Israel.
The protesters urged the Bangladesh government to take strong stand against Israel in the United Nations.
They also called for boycotting Israeli products and proposed severing ties with countries that sided with Israel.
Security arrangements surrounding the national mosque and adjacent areas were beefed up and many mosque-goers were checked by police before entering the mosque.
Effigies of Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu along with Israeli flags were burnt during the demonstrations.
The procession passed through Paltan, Nightingale intersection and the Kakrail area.
Over 4,23,000 people have been forced to flee their homes in the Gaza Strip, the United Nations said, following heavy Israeli bombardments in retaliation for Hamas’s attacks, Agence France-Presse reported from Geneva in Switzerland on Friday.
As of late Thursday, the number of displaced people in Gaza rose by 84,444 to reach 423,378, the UN humanitarian agency OCHA said in a statement sent on the day.
Israel pounded the Gaza Strip in response to October 7 surprise attack, the deadliest since the country’s creation in 1948.