Monday, 26 March 2012 / Scoop, by Julie Webb-Pullman - Scores of women today held an event outside the Palestinian Legislative Council in Gaza City, in the lead up to this Friday’s Global March to Jerusalem (GMJ).
The GMJ is drawing global attention to the dangers to Jerusalem’s very survival as the embodiment of the cultural heritage of the three monotheistic religions of Islam, Christianity and Judaism.
Many of the women present were older, and carried keys to the homes they were forced out of in 1948.
The gathering was addressed by Hamas spokesperson Mosher Al Masry, and Dr Ahmed Abu Halabiya, head of the Gaza GMJ Committee, and member of the Palestinian Legislative Council.
Throughout the speeches the women cheered and chanted, adding their voices to the demands for recognition of their rights as the indigenous people of Palestine, their right of return to their homeland, and their rights to hold their own religious and political beliefs, free from discrimination.
The right of return is a right recognised by international law under UN Resolution 194. more
The official site for the Global March to Jerusalem is hereThe march takes place on 30 March 2012.
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