Madrid demonstration stands in solidarity with Lebanon against Zionist aggression and massacres

On Thursday 9 April, Samidoun Madrid joined with the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, Tariq el-Tahrir Youth and Student Network and Alkarama Palestinian Women’s Movement for an emergency demonstration in response to the Zionist massacres in Lebanon.

The protest, which gathered outside the Zionist embassy in the Spanish capital, was a spirited demonstration with hundreds of participants, who chanted and spoke in solidarity with the Lebanese and Palestinian people and their resistance, expressing their outrage at the U.S.-backed Zionist aggression against Lebanon, the invasions and attacks on South Lebanon, al-Dahiyeh, the Beqaa, and the Wednesday, April 8 attacks on the Lebanese capital, Beirut.

The demonstration received coverage in local and international media, including the following report from TRT Arabic, which featured an interview with Jaldia Abubakra of Alkarama, Samidoun, and the Masar Badil:

Participants in the demonstration chanted in support of the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Iran, while denouncing the Zionist-imperialist aggression and the impunity of the occupation regime. They demanded that the Spanish government immediately sever all relations with the Zionist entity, noting that political, diplomatic and economic complicity enables its crimes to continue, and stressing that condemnation is not sufficient to respond to these genocidal crimes.

A joint statement from the Masar Badil, the Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement, was read out at the demonstration, calling for greater mobilization internationally to confront the aggression. There have been over 1,900 martyrs in Lebanon since 2 March; on 8 April, occupation forces killed over 300 martyrs and injured over 1,000, when they bombed over 100 sites in 10 minutes, targeting ambulances and health workers, displaced people, residential apartment buildings, mosques, cemeteries, and businesses, in an all-out assault on civilian life.

STATEMENT 

The decisive response of the axis of resistance to Zionist and U.S. barbarism has weakened their infrastructure, but most importantly, it has shaken the imperialist and Zionist hydra. For this reason, Trump, driven mad, publicly declared his intention to destroy all of Iranian civilization.

Immediately afterward, he pretends to sign a ceasefire, which is violated from the very first hours by the Zionist entity, launching its largest wave of bombings in Lebanon, attacking more than 100 targets in 10 minutes, with a preliminary toll of more than 250 martyrs and more than 837 wounded, and continuing sustained bombardment of this territory up to the present.

These acts, together with the execution law in Zionist prisons that seeks to hang more than 9,000 Palestinians, once again show us the cruel and monstrous face of Zionism, which seeks only to exterminate everything that stands in its path toward colonialism and territorial expansion. We saw this in the annexation of part of Syria after paramilitary groups took power, and we see its attempt in southern Lebanon.

The criminalization of resistance is part of the attempt to crush the struggle of peoples.

But Hezbollah has responded in a brave, consistent and supportive manner from the very beginning and has stood in struggle alongside all Palestinian resistance factions without hesitation.

We send all our support to the resistance in Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen, Iraq and Iran.

We call on the Spanish State to:

1. Expel the Zionist embassy and the U.S. embassy from this territory.
2. Completely sever all agreements with the genocidal state.
3. Expel Israel from European Horizon projects.
4. Shut down all war factories belonging to Elbit Systems and Rafael Defense Systems, such as PAP Tecnos, among others.
5. Investigate and prosecute the links between neo-Nazi groups such as the company Desokupa and Zionist war criminals.
6. Completely close airspace and ports to weapons shipments used to perpetuate extermination.
7. Reject the criminalization and condemnation of legitimate resistance in the national liberation struggle of peoples under occupation and imperialist aggression. Freedom for prisoners in solidarity with the Palestinian cause.

For the martyrs, for the prisoners, and for the peoples in struggle: we remain steadfast in resistance.

For the martyrs, for the fighters, for what has been taken from us and what they continue trying to take, for the prisoners, for the exiled, for everything that the anti-Zionist and anti-imperialist struggle represents.

For all these reasons, we remain in struggle alongside the resistance in all areas directly or indirectly affected by Zionist aggression.

Freedom for all Palestinian political prisoners.
Long live the axis of resistance.
Long live a free Palestine from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.

Masar Badil – Palestinian Alternative Revolutionary Path Movement
For global popular mobilization in support of the resistance and against Zionist–imperialist aggression.