Tens of thousands protest Israel’s war on Gaza in Australia’s Sydney

Australia whitethorn articulation much than a twelve different nations successful recognising the authorities of Palestine.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators person marched crossed the Sydney Harbour Bridge successful Australia, calling for bid and assistance deliveries successful the war-ravaged Gaza Strip, wherever a humanitarian situation of man-made starvation has been worsening arsenic a effect of Israel’s punishing blockade.

Pro-Palestinian protesters braved dense winds and rainfall connected Sunday to march crossed the bridge, chanting “Ceasefire Now” and “Free Palestine”. Some of those attending the march, which the organisers dubbed the “March for Humanity”, carried pots and pans arsenic symbols of the forced starvation wracking Gaza.

Demonstrators including WikiLeaks laminitis Julian Assange (third from left, wearing reddish tie) transverse the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally against Israel’s actions and the ongoing nutrient shortages successful the Gaza Strip successful Sydney, Australia connected August 3, 2025 [David Gray/AFP]

The protestation came little than a week aft a associated connection by Australia and much than a twelve different nations expressed the “willingness oregon the affirmative information … to recognise the authorities of Palestine arsenic an indispensable measurement towards the two-State solution”.

France, Britain and Canada person successful caller weeks voiced, and successful immoderate cases qualified, intentions to diplomatically recognise a Palestinian authorities arsenic planetary interest and disapproval person grown implicit the hunger situation successful Gaza.

At slightest 175 people, including 93 children, person died of starvation and malnutrition crossed the territory since Israel launched its warfare connected Gaza aft the Hamas-led attacks connected confederate Israel successful October 2023, according to the latest Gaza Health Ministry figures.

Australia has called for an extremity to the warfare successful Gaza, but has truthful acold stopped abbreviated of a determination to recognise a Palestinian state.

Police said that up to 90,000 radical had attended the protestation portion the organiser, Palestine Action Group Sydney, said successful a Facebook station that arsenic galore arsenic 300,000 radical whitethorn person marched.

Marchers ranged from the aged to families with young children. Among them was WikiLeaks laminitis Julian Assange, who did not code the assemblage oregon talk to the media.

Demonstrators transverse the Sydney Harbour Bridge during a pro-Palestinian rally against Israel’s actions and the ongoing nutrient shortages successful the Gaza Strip successful Sydney, Australia connected August 3, 2025 [David Gray/AFP]

Mehreen Faruqi, the New South Wales legislator for the left-wing Greens party, addressed the assemblage gathered astatine cardinal Sydney’s Lang Park, calling for the “harshest sanctions connected Israel”, accusing its forces of “massacring” Palestinians.

Antony Loewenstein, writer of The Palestine Laboratory, a publication connected the Israeli arms and surveillance industry, who spoke astatine the rally, told Al Jazeera that protesters are “outraged” not conscionable by what Israel is doing successful Gaza, but besides by the Australian government’s “complicity”.

Loewenstein said that Australia has, for galore years, including since the commencement of the war, been portion of the planetary proviso concatenation for the F-35 combatant jets that Israel has been utilizing successful attacking the besieged territory.

“A batch of Australians are alert of this,” helium said. “We are profoundly complicit, and radical are aggravated that their authorities is doing small much than speech astatine this point.”

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