Demonstrators upset with the ongoing Israeli bombardment of Gaza clashed with police and tried setting Mexico City’s Israeli Embassy on fire this week.
Mexican leftists torch the Israeli embassy in Mexico City as police are ordered to stand down. pic.twitter.com/ljWFBIsniJ
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A violent pro-Hamas demonstration involving hundreds of people outside the Israeli embassy in Mexico City, overnight. The aggressors tried to break through fences, threw grenades of various kinds and Molotov cocktails, and attempted to set the embassy on fire.
At least six… pic.twitter.com/OlOjmwgmYC
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“It’s not a war, it’s a genocide,” the protester chanted outside the embassy.
Protesters in solidarity with Palestine set a fire & throw rocks in front of the Israeli Embassy in Mexico City. Demonstrators chant, “It’s not a war, it’s a genocide!” We are demanding an immediate & permanent ceasefire!
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According to the Associated Press, six police officers were injured during clashes with the angry demonstrators who tore down poles to use as weapons and threw objects at the cops.
The protest was launched in response to a Sunday Israeli attack on a refugee camp near Rafah that reportedly killed 45 people, according to Palestine’s numbers.