Protests in America against the sale of Palestinian properties – Mehr News agency RCO News Agency
According to RCO News Agency, citing Al Arabi Al-Jadeed website, activists and protesters gathered on Tuesday in fro of the Hilton Double Tree Hotel in Peeksville, Maryland, USA, which hosted an auction for the sale of houses built on stolen Palestinian land.
Protesters chaed slogans such as “Palestine is not for sale, you occupiers, return to your homes.”
In this eve, which it called “Israel Exhibition”, the Zionist regime provided the audience with information about how to buy housing in the occupied Palestinian lands and displayed apartmes in illegal settlemes located in the occupied West Bank.
Jewish activists and people of Palestinian origin participated in the demonstration, holding placards condemning the theft of Palestinian land and mass killings in Gaza, calling this action a clear violation of human rights and iernational law.
A group of local organizers and community members also issued a public stateme demanding the cancellation of the eve, but the hotel manageme responded negatively to this request.
The establishme of this exhibition coincided with the 42nd anniversary of the killing of Sabra and Shatila on September 16, 1982. In this massacre, the forces of the Zionist regime and militias attacked Sabra and Shatila camps in the south of Beirut for three days, which led to the massacre of about 3,500 civilians; Many of the victims were Palestinians who owned the same lands and houses that this regime is now trying to sell.
One protester stated that “by creating an illegal financial demand for land theft and providing political cover for the killing and displaceme of Palestinians, the sale of these lands and similar actions play a fundameal role in the ongoing racial cleansing and occupation of Palestinian lands.”
Meanwhile, Israeli Finance Minister Betsleil Smotrich announced last June that the Israeli governme approved the expansion of settlemes in the West Bank and recognized five new illegal bases and plans to build thousands of new resideial units in the West Bank. This area has provided. These bases are part of the settleme developme policy that is built by a number of settlers on Palestinian lands and later declared legal by this regime.
