Reportback: Emergency Protest for Rafah in Orlando

On the 13th of February, Palestinians and their allies gathered at Mills and E Colonial Dr (interesting name here…) for an emergency march for Rafah in Gaza. Twice when the march passed a Starbucks, Starbucks was called out for supporting genocide in Gaza. Chants against Genocide Joe and chants supporting Yemen’s direct action solidarity with Gaza were also used.

Late in the march, a motorist attempted to ram their way through multiple marchers but was brought to a stop by them. This took place well behind me, I was unable to get the camera up fast enough to capture the initial attack, so this is not in the video report. All present were able to return to action, and the march continued unabated.

Background: Two days earlier, Netanyahu bombed residential houses in Rafah, Gaza killing between 50 and 100 people as a DIVERSION! This to protect a raid that recovered only two hostages at such a horrific price paid by uninvolved civilians. Threats of an all-out assault on Rafeh are considered imminent, and five times Rafeh’s normal population is now present there, forced out of the rest of Gaza under a storm of terror bombing by Israel.

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