HAIFA, April 10, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli police Thursday evening cracked down on a protest against the ongoing Israeli genocidal war on the Gaza Strip in Haifa, according to local sources.

They said that Israeli police dragged protestors to the ground and beat them before detaining at least 23.

Protestors held banners in Hebrew, Arabic and English reading “Stop the genocide”, and “From Haifa to Gaza: One blood and fate” and chanted slogans calling for immediately ending the aggression on the Strip and lifting Gaza blockade.

Police also tore and confiscated banners and chased away protestors in the streets of the German Colony neighborhood.

Israel unilaterally ended the Gaza ceasefire agreement and resumed its aggression on the Strip on Tuesday, March 18, carrying out a wave of bloody airstrikes across the Strip and killing hundreds of Palestinians, including over 100 children.

The death toll reached at least 1,522 with 3,834 others wounded, according to medical sources. Emergency teams are attempting to recover victims still trapped beneath the rubble.

Medical sources added that within the last 24 hours, the bodies of at least 40 slain Palestinians and 146 casualties were admitted into hospitals across the Strip.

The aggression was resumed amidst concerns over the deterioration of the humanitarian situation in the Strip given the ongoing siege and ban on the entry of medical and humanitarian aid.

Israel has waged a military onslaught on the Strip since October 2023, killing 50,886 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and injuring 115,875 others.

Moreover, at least 10,000 people are unaccounted for, presumed dead under the rubble of their homes throughout the Strip.

The Israeli aggression has also resulted in the forceful displacement of nearly two million people from all over the Gaza Strip, with the vast majority of the displaced forced into the densely crowded southern city of Rafah near the border with Egypt – in what has become Palestine’s largest mass exodus since the 1948 Nakba.

K.F.