International Al Quds Day 2020-MES EP.54

Pro-Palestine activists across the world are making plans to replace street rallies with online events to commemorate this year’s International Quds Day as the coronavirus pandemic has restricted social life and mass gatherings across the globe. How will this year’s Quds Day affect Palestine? To discuss this issue with us from Montreal is Susane Khalil political scientist and researcher, founder of the Canaan Association and Host and produce of the radio show “Palestine 11 thousand years of history”.

Israel’s repression of Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank and Gaza has become more brutal over time. Ethnic cleansing, land seizure, home demolition, military occupation, bombing of Gaza and international law violations led activists of the anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa to declare that the treatment of Palestinians reminded them of the apartheid they endured, fought and ended. Apartheid Israel increases hostilities in this following report. To discuss this issue with us from Damascus in an exclusive interview Barry Gilder South Africa Ambassador to Syria and Lebanon.