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Protesters took aim at foreign minister Penny Wong and prime minister Anthony Albanese and said they would ‘continue to chant for a liberated Palestine’
Widad Waqqad, 20, has been attending demonstrations for Palestine since she was a young girl. This Sunday was no different, as she joined hundreds of others in Sydney’s Hyde Park despite the 34C heat.
Sunday marked the 15th pro-Palestine rally in Sydney since 7 October, with thousands gathering in demonstrations across the country demanding a ceasefire in Gaza. When Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October, it killed about 1,200 people and abducted some 250 others. Since then, more than 24,000 Palestinians have been killed, including thousands of children, in Israeli bombardments.
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