Pro-Palestinian protesters march through the city, encircling people setting up tents on Drexel campus [View all]

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Hundreds of Pro-Palestinian protesters marched from City Hall to University City Saturday afternoon, where they linked arms around people who set up tents on Drexel University’s campus.

Before processing, speakers addressed the crowd, marking the anniversary of the 1948 Nakba, and demanded a permanent ceasefire in Gaza.

As they marched from City Hall down JFK blvd and Market Street, protesters held signs with the names of Palestinian cities and the number of Palistinians killed and displaced there.

The Nakba, which means ‘catastrophe’ in Arabic, is remembered by Palestinians on May 15, which this year fell on the day after Israel celebrated its independence day. Nakba refers to the mass displacement of 700,000 Palestinians before and during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, as Palestinains were expelled from the land that is now Israel and were not permitted to return.

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https://whyy.org/articles/pro-palestine-ceasefire-march-center-city-philadelphia/